
Jennifer Garner has made the ultimate rebound in the face of her husband's (Ben Affleck) affair, but she is so much more than a celebrity wife. Although she passed up opportunities at stardom to be with her kids and to support her marriage and although her personality often differed from the women she played on set, she remained level headed and secure in who she was. The below article is an interesting take on how her intersecting experiences and personalities that made her into the woman she is now. Whether one agrees with Garner's actions and motives or not, it can be agreed that she has somehow remained relevant in Hollywood through avenues different that many women today. "Contemporary female stars adopt a variety of strategies to keep themselves in the limelight: They can have dynamic love lives (Julia Roberts in the ‘90s and early 2000s, Jennifer Aniston until five years ago, Taylor Swift until she met Calvin Harris), they can have beautiful children (Jessica Alba, Angelina Jolie, Reese Witherspoon), they can have pilates bodies and pose them provocatively (early Olivia Wilde, Megan Fox, Jessica Biel, Mila Kunis), or they can say outrageous or bizarre things (Jennifer Lawrence, Shailene Woodley). Some female stars do all four; others, like Meryl Streep, engage in an entirely different genus of non-celebrity stardom, in which their popularity is based almost entirely on actual performances. But that’s a privilege afforded very few — and certainly not Garner." This quote from the article comments on the center of the analysis, the different ways in which female actresses (specifically Garner) have to try to stay relevant in a culture that attempts to forget them after the age of 35 but doesn't forget their husbands.
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