Jennifer Garner Doesn't Need Ben Affleck

Gracing the cover of W, the actress gripes about her husband and admits girlfriends come before Ben

By Jennifer Cady Dec 09, 2009 8:14 PMTags
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Jennifer Garner takes the January W cover, and it's fairly typical in its Jennifer Garnerness—pretty girl-next-door lady who loves Martha Stewart, baking cookies and taking care of her two daughters.

It's when the topic of her Ben Affleck comes up that her interview gets interesting. She paints him out to be this huge grump whom she seems to resent, just a little bit.

"Ben asks me, 'How come when I do an interview I manage to keep you out of it completely?'" she says when her husband's name comes up. "And I'm like, 'Either because you don't think about me or because boy magazines don't care about what I make you for dinner. But they should!'"

She goes on about how she doesn't even really need her husband around.

"I miss my girlfriends! That’s the hardest thing about being on location when it's not for your own project. When it's for you, you're on set with everybody you know, but if not, it's lonely. I can live with Ben working crazy hours. But I can't live without girlfriends around to talk about men with! It's fine if he's not there; I just need someone to bitch about it to!"

Well, good thing there's a fashion magazine for her to bitch to.

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