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Jennifer Garner - Pretty & Pierced

Most of the websites on Jennifer Garner tend to agree on one thing - that she's never had her ears pierced. However, this seems to be based on fairly vague comments she made in a couple of old interviews which date from when she first started on 'Alias', so its actually quite old information, and now out of date. In these early interviews, all she said was that her parents didn't let her or her sisters have their ears pierced when they were growing up. However, in more recent interviews (such as Marie Claire, October 2007), she's expanded upon that and said that they were told they weren't allowed to have them done until they were sixteen, and added that her younger sister broke that rule and had hers done (without permission) when she was fourteen.

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Oscars 2006.

Here's some pictures of Jennifer from the 2006 Oscars™ ceremony.

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Take a look at the earrings she's wearing. On the TV coverage of her arriving at the ceremony, they were talking about her outfit and accessories. When it got to the subject of her earrings, they said who they were by, and then added that Jennifer had "recently had her ears pierced especially to be able to wear them" for that event. This is confirmed by the magazine clipping here, which also mentions her having her ears pierced specifically for the Oscars™ ceremony, and this archived page from a Ben Affleck fan forum.

In more recent pictures, there's no sign of any holes in her ears, showing that after having her ears pierced in order to wear the earrings she had on at the Oscars™, she let them heal up once again. But this isn't the first time she's had her ears pierced... As these pictures below clearly show, she also had them pierced when she was 27, for her role in the TV movie, 'Aftershock: Earthquake In New York'.

Aftershock - Earthquake In New York



As you can see from these pictures, the earrings she wore in this film were not clip-on ones, and are clearly normal pierced stud earrings. However, having had her ears done for this film, she then let her holes close up again. This meant that she then had to have them re-pierced again the next time she needed to wear pierced earrings.


Jennifer Speaks!

Jennifer herself has recently commented on this subject herself, as this quote from the October 2007 Marie Claire interview shows:

Garner and her two sisters were expected to attend church every Sunday and weren't allowed to get their ears pierced until they were 16. "But my little sister went out and did it. We all sat at the dinner table waiting for my father to see this. My older sister and I were quaking in our boots! He was never mean to us, certainly never physical. He just commanded so much respect, my dad - still does. He said, 'Susannah, something happened to your ears.' Susannah said, 'I got them pierced'"

Despite the girls fears, the sun did indeed rise the next morning. So did Garner take that as a signal that it was OK to go and get her ears pierced too? "Oh no, certainly not!" she laughs. "In fact, I didn't even get them done when I was 16 and it would have been OK to." But, she quickly adds, she did get them done eventually. "I got them done a few years back for a film I did, but let them heal up again afterwards, and then again last year for the earrings I wore to the Oscars." Garner flicks her earlobes with a big grin: "But they're all healed again now."


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So, the answer to the question of whether or not Jennifer Garner has had her ears pierced is yes - While she may not have had them done when she was younger, and may not have them done now, there have been times when she has had her ears pierced for a specific reason.

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