Jennifer Garner resumes acting after motherhood and divorce

Actress Jennifer Garner has described how the demands of motherhood and a significant family upheaval led her to step away from her acting career for an extended period, a choice she is now reversing as her children grow older. In a recent interview, Garner reflected on the years following her separation from actor Ben Affleck in 2015, a period she said was dominated by focusing on her three children.

Garner explained that her career naturally slowed due to the time required for pregnancy and recovery, noting that a performer gives up roughly a year to a year and a half for each child. With three children over several years, those individual stretches compounded. She said that when her children were young, she worked very little, and a subsequent family upheaval extended that period of professional inactivity even further.

That upheaval was the couple's separation and eventual divorce, which was finalized in 2018. Garner and Affleck, who married in 2005 after meeting on the set of "Daredevil," share three children: Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel. Following the split, Garner said her priority was staying home to raise them. She acknowledged that the transition required her and...