Jennifer Garner Says They Don’t Have Many Family Photos Because Paparazzi Traumatized Her Kids

Jennifer Garner is talking about what it was like for her kids growing up with parents being hounded by constant paparazzi attention. She’s the cover story for The Hollywood Reporter, and says she has very few family photos since her kids were traumatized by cameras and feared them when they were younger.

She and Ben Affleck have son Samuel, 9, and daughters Seraphina, 12, and Violet, 15.

“When they were smaller and there were things out there that were shocking, my request to them was always, ‘Let Dad and I talk you through whatever it is,’ “ she says. “I’d tell them, ‘If you see an image on the front of a magazine, I’ll look at it with you and we’ll process all the scary feelings that come up together.’ “

When Violet was in Kindergarten, she said, “We didn’t ask for this. We don’t want these cameras, they’re scary. The men are scary, they knock each other over and it’s hard to feel like a kid when you’re being chased.’ ““… I’d go do a school run and it’d be 15 cars going with me. I never had a day without them, and if I did, if I made it to a park by hiding in the bottom of the pool man’s truck or something, then a nanny would see me there and call a number and they’d swarm.”