Fabulous Fakery

Jennifer Garner covers the May 2023 issue of ‘Allure’ magazine, lensed by Tom Schirmacher [IG]. We don’t think of Jennifer Garner going edgy, but stylist Yashua Simmons creates a modern, steely-woman vibe with Miu Miu on the cover, LaQuan Smith [yellow trench coat], Loewe, Michael Kors and more.

The beauty team of James Kaliardos on makeup and Adir Abergel on hair is outstanding in transforming Garner for “I’m Not Good at Being Fake”. In the yellow hair, red lips head shot, Garner wears Killawatt highlighter in Trophy Wife by Fenty Beauty. I love it!

Danielle Pergament shares the interview in LA, where we quickly learn that their daughters attend the same school.

“It spoke to the mountain girl in me — it’s a big part of Appalachian culture,” says Garner, 51, who grew up in West Virginia and gifts one of her wood-turning bowls created at a downtown Los Angeles studio to Pergament.

Garner learned the art of word turning in preparation for her Apple TV+ thriller The Last Thing He Told Me.

The actor, who remains in a thriving relationship with businessman John Miller, although she remains not marriage-prone, is very dedicated to her children.

On the topic of being a mom, she can be unusually self-aware.

“Your kids will really figure out who they are and what they are when they’re older, and most likely they will hew toward lovely,” she says. “I have a lot of faith in my kids. I don’t love every behavior all the time, always. It’s gnarly growing up.” After all, she points out, it’s hard for everyone raising a kid in 2023. “We didn’t have the eyes on us that our kids have. I was such a first-time mom. [My eldest daughter] didn’t have a shot. She couldn’t have a free thought — I was all over her. I was a nightmare for everyone around me.”

The Case of Collapsing Vaginas

The two women end up at Soho House for lunch, and the convo turns to collapsing vaginas over mint tea.

The stories about Jennnifer Garner shunning the media and the paparazzi being willing to ignore her are true.

“The paparazzi have calmed down so much for me that I’m back to being in the world,” Garner says. “I’m not getting chased into the grocery store to have whatever is in my cart photographed. Maybe my life is happily boring enough that there’s nothing to see here. I think social media helped calm it down, actually. You have your own relationship with people.”

Reverend Garner

In one of the greatest compliments Garner could receive in today’s world, NBC called her Instagram account the “last uncorrupted corner of the internet.”

If an alternative career is in her future — besides her Once Upon a Farm [an organic, clean food baby food and kids’ snacks] investment, where she remains Farmer Jen, it’s being a minister. Note that Once Upon a Farm food is now sold at Whole Foods.

Asked who she would be without Hollywood, Garner delivers an unexpected answer.

“I would have really liked being a minister,” she says. “My mom thinks I still will be. I grew up in such a lovely church in the United Methodist Church, and the minister was like the den parent. What I like about the study of religion, it reminds me of the study of theater — it’s really a liberal arts education. You have to understand history, geography, literature. It’s art, it’s everything. I don’t know anything about Hinduism, Islam, so many other religions, and I wish I did. That feels like a sign of respect.”