Jennifer Garner.Photo: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Jennifer Garneradmits she can’t always live up to the impossible “nice” label she’s been given.
The Last Thing He Told Meactress, 51, said in aninterview withAllurepublished Tuesday that being publicly perceived as “so nice” makes it difficult to set boundaries.
“The problem with, ‘Oh, she’s so nice’ is that when I have any kind of boundary, people think of it as much more than it actually is,” she said. “The problem is being recognized on a day where I’m not so nice or when I have blackness in my soul.”
Garner added, “I’ve definitely had days where I just can’t do it. I scowl at people before they can walk up to me. I’m not perfect, and I don’t think I’m rude, but I’m not good at being fake. I’m an open book of a person.”
Jennifer Garner.Tom Schirmacher/Allure
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Elsewhere in the interview, the13 Going on 30star opened up about being a mother to her three children —Violet, 17, Seraphina, 14, and Samuel, 11— who she shares with her ex-husbandBen Affleck, and how being a parent is something she felt destined to be.
In October, Garner alsotoldTown & Countryabout dealing with the “nice” label.
“I have no reason not to be nice. My life is lovely. I’m not always just nice. I can also be salty, and I can be taciturn, or I can be really serious about what I want to get done,” she said.
“It’s not that I feel I’m underestimated in that way — I’m not afraid to stand up for myself and say, ‘Just so you know, this isn’t going to fly with me.’ When that happens, I don’t want you to be shocked that I’m a real person.”
source: people.com
