Jennifer Garner Tells Photog She 'Chose A Public Life But' 'Three Children Are Private Citizens,' [PHOTO]
Actress Jennifer Garner showed a photographer what it was like to be photographed unwillingly over the weekend when the man tried to take photos of her three children.
Garner, who is married to Argo director Ben Affleck, was out at a Pacific Palisades, Calif. Farmer's market on Sunday with the couple's three children: Violet, 7, Seraphina, 4, and Samuel, 1, when she noticed the male photographer filming her family.
Garner apparently then stood in front of the photographer and held her cellphone in front of him, reportedly taking his picture.
Garner, along with actress Halle Berry, have been jointly leading a celebrity charge for stricter anti-paparazzi laws in California, according to ABC news. Both testified before California lawmakers last month about the effects of aggressive paparazzi on their children, asking for legislation which would better protect their children.
"I chose a public life...[but] my three children are private citizens," she said. "I love my kids. They're beautiful and sweet and innocent, and I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, lawbreaking photographers who camp out everywhere we are all day every day to continue traumatizing my kids," the actress testified.
The worst example of paparazzi harassing her children involved a case where a threatening stalker once followed her with a crowd of photographers and hid behind her daughter's school.
Berry, 46, who is pregnant with her second child, also testified about a case where photographers taunted her 5-year-old daughter, Nahla, with endless questions.
If the bill the two are advocating is passed, it would change how harassment is defined and would include a law making it illegal to photograph or record a child without the permission of a legal guardian, if the method of obtaining the photo includes following the child or guardian's activities, or by lying in wait.
It would also include provisions for heftier fines and potential jail time, as well as the ability for celebrities to pursue civil lawsuits against offenders.
