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Hand out the cigars, it's an Affleck! Ben Affleck and his wife, Jennifer Garner welcomed their first child into the world on Wednesday, Us Weekly reports. Us Weekly reported on its Web site that Violet Affleck's birth came after doctors induced labor at a Los Angeles hospital on Wednesday night, a week before Garner's expected due date. The magazine quoted an unidentified friend of the couple as saying "Ben was with her the entire time.''
While Ben and Jennifer never officially announced the sex of their child, gossip mongers and Garner fans knew for some time that it would be a girl. Jennifer slipped the knowledge while doing an interview with Jay Leno.
Word about Garner's pregnancy first began spreading in May, nine months into her relationship with Affleck, 33. (Affleck and Garner first worked together on the 2001 film "Pearl Harbor" and co-starred in the 2003 superhero action film "Daredevil," leading to Garner's big-screen spin-off role in this year's Elektra..)
Reps confirmed the pregnancy after the couple married June 29 in a small, low-key ceremony on the Turks and Caicos Islands reports People Magazine. .
The Houston-born actress filed for divorce from her first husband, actor Scott Foley, in 2003, after 2 1/2 years of marriage.
Affleck's publicist, Ken Sunshine, and Garner's spokeswoman, Nicole King, said the child was born at 6:26 p.m. ET Thursday, after several news outlets erroneously reported Garner had already given birth nearly five hours earlier.
TV series Alias, in which Garner plays an undercover CIA agent, will finish in May after being beaten in the ratings by its timeslot competition reports BBC
Affleck will play actor George Reeves, best known for playing Superman on TV, in the upcoming movie Truth, Justice, and the American Way
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