Jennifer Garner Shares What Her Teenage Kids Think About Her (Exclusive)

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Jennifer Garner's kids think she's extra. In a conversation with ET's Nischelle Turner, the 50-year-old actress, who plays a stepmom to a difficult teenager in her new series, , reflects on how the show mirrors her reality as a mom of three.«I think my children live feeling that way,» Garner quips of her kids thinking she's extra. «They would tattoo it.

They don't even need to say it. It is fact.»Garner stars on the Apple TV+ series as Hannah, a woman who teams up with her often moody teenage stepdaughter, Bailey (Angourie Rice), to find out her husband's (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) secrets after he goes missing.In real life, Garner, who shares Violet, 17, Seraphina, 14 and Samuel, 11, with her ex-husband, Ben Affleck, acknowledges that while she has «amazing teenagers» she can «feel the moments» when her character is «biting her tongue and where she is just praying for serenity now.»«That being said, again, I am close with and have amazing teenagers,» Garner adds.

So close, in fact, that Garner bonded with one of her kids, Seraphina, over her latest role.«I read the book with my middle child and… bedtime went out the window until it was finished,» Garner tells ET of Laura Dave's novel of the same name on which the show is based. «We were compelled to keep reading.

It's so propulsive, the read, because the stakes could not be higher. They are turned on a dime again and again and again. And in the middle of it is this very tender love story between a woman and her stepdaughter, and kind of the idea of becoming a parent.»Just as Garner is close to her real-life kids, she is a big fan of Rice, her onscreen daughter. «I really love her,» Garner says of the 22-year-old actress.