Dear Jennifer,

Thank you for eating.  Thank you for not being a size zero, seventy-two hours postpartum.  I applaud you for not celebrating each c-section by having your tummy tucked and your thighs sucked.

Thank you for not hiring a stylist to “do” you before you pick up your daughter at school.

Also, I’d like to thank you for shopping at mass merchandisers.  Sometimes, in photos, I recognize the Old Navy togs that your children don.  It brings me peace when I see your kid dressed in the $12.50 Gap pique polo.

In other words, today I honor you for being normal.  In Hollywood terms, you are a complete and total freak.

Here’s Ben and Jen picking up little Violet from school together.

Aside from the fact that they’re being photographed by paparazzi, you’d never know these two were famous. They’re just a couple taking a break from the baby at home to pick up the kiddo at school, and maybe catch fifteen minutes of alone time in the process.

Love them!

They don’t lose the baby weight instantly!

Jennifer Garner refuses to hide from the paparazzi — taking Seraphina Rose to a check-up at the doctor and dropping off Violet at school — while showing off a little bit of the remnant baby weight.

It’s so nice that she hasn’t holed up for a month only to re-emerge with a picture-perfect (and surgically improved) body. She’s living a real life post-pregnancy, like most moms! I love Jen so much.

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She is Seraphina Rose Elizabeth Affleck!!!

I actually think it’s a beautiful name.

Glad they got a flower name in there, though!!!

Congrats to the happy couple, who became parents to a healthy baby girl on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The couple already have one daughter, Violet, age 3.

So far, no news on what the baby’s name might be, but I’ve got my fingers crossed for Magenta.

Good mommy Jennifer Garner takes daughter Violet Affleck to the park on Tuesday.

They were joined by Violet’s soon-to-be brother or sister, who’s busting out of Jen’s stomach.

Silly Jen. Why drag your kid all the way to the park? Everyone knows that toddlers much prefer to play with packs of Marlboros.

Here’s five-months-pregnant Jen Garner hanging out in LA, trying to hide her baby bump with a shopping bag, but forgetting that the photogs are wise to that old trick by now — they get the side shot.

Aw, Jennifer Garner’s so adorable!

I wonder what she’ll name this new kiddo. Fuschia?

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