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Jennifer Garner recalls intense paparazzi harassment

Hollywood actor Jennifer Garner has opened up about the intense and terrifying experiences she faced with paparazzi during her marriage to ex-husband Ben Affleck, highlighting the extreme measures photogs took to capture images of her young children.
The 53-year-old actress recalled how the non-stop presence of relentless photographers created an unsafe and hostile environment for her family on a daily basis. Garner revealed that paparazzi would frequently aggressive crowd her children, causing chaos in public settings to get marketable shots. In several terrifying incidents, photogs physically knocked over children just to snap photos of her three kids—Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel.
​The constant invasion of privacy and safety concerns eventually led Garner to join forces with fellow actor Halle Berry to actively advocate for legal reforms in California. The duo lobbied heavily for state legislation to curb aggressive celebrity photography, resulting in an anti-paparazzi bill that criminalized photographing or videotaping children without parental consent.
​Reflecting on her public life, Garner emphasized the distinct line between her career choice and her family’s right to privacy. While accepting that public scrutiny comes with acting, she noted that her children are private citizens who suffered trauma from being hunted by gangs of aggressive photographers everywhere they went. Her legal advocacy helped set a critical precedent for protecting celebrity children from aggressive press tactics across the entertainment industry.

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