Jennifer Garner and her longtime boyfriend John Miller make a rare sighting in LA while holding hands after a romantic lunch date

Jennifer Garner looked at ease as she stepped out in Santa Monica with her boyfriend John Miller on Saturday.

The actress, who stars in the upcoming Netflix comedy Family Switch, stepped out in a preppy look for the afternoon date with her longtime love.

The Alias ​​star, 51, wore a gray long-sleeved sweater and a black and gray pint miniskirt.

The Golden Globe winner showed off her toned legs in sheer black tights and wore black patent leather loafers adorned with gold chains.

Her dark, shoulder-length hair was parted slightly off-center and styled straight.

The Party Down star wore natural-looking makeup with a neutral pink lip.

She accessorized with a silver pendant, earrings and dark sunglasses.

John, 45, appeared relaxed in a blue and gray plaid button-up shirt, distressed jeans and hiking boots.

The Caliburger CEO’s brown hair was neatly trimmed, as was his beard.

The couple have been dating since 2018 but are rarely seen together in public and prefer to keep their private lives to themselves.

The busy actress shares her children Violet, 17, Seraphina, 14, and Sam, 11, with ex-husband Ben Affleck, 51.

John is a divorced father of children Violet and Quest, whom he shares with ex-wife, violinist Caroline Campbell.

The Yes Day star previously admitted this in an interview with Access to Hollywood that she sometimes feels guilty as a working mother.

“Working moms have such a burden… we all panic because we’re constantly being told ‘you have eighteen summers,’ ‘you have so much time,’ ‘time is fleeting’ and it makes you panic,” she said against the newspaper. exhaust pipe.

Explaining how she dealt with those feelings, she said, “So if you come from a place of expansiveness instead of feeling like, ‘I can’t be a mom because I work too, and I would have to feel guilty all the time are. the time’, you better just lean wherever you are, just like right now, just be here when your kids show up and we’ll have a great time.’

The amateur chef often talks about making food for her children on her Pretend Cooking Show on social media.

For her latest recipe, Jennifer showed her fans how to make a so-called Pizza Cracker from homemade pizza dough.

“When someone comes home sick from school, this is what they ask for,” she told her 14.7 million followers.

“My kids loved this before they loved spices on anything else,” she said, referring to the oregano, rosemary and thyme snack.

The Save the Children ambassador recently took a quiet trip to Kentucky, where she visited an elementary school where the library was destroyed by floods in July 2022.

The few books that survived were kept on a push cart by the school librarian.

Many of the children had also lost their homes due to the destruction.

The Golden Globe winner made glitter bombs with the children as part of an activity to help them cope with their sadness and fear.

“Okay, try this out,” she told the eager students. “We’re so angry, we’re frustrated, it’s raining, it makes us nervous, we’re afraid of something at school, what can we do?”

The actress then told them to “shake, shake, shake” the plastic bottles filled with water and glitter.

“Look at your glitter, we’re going to take five breaths in through our nose and out through our mouth.”

Then she asked the students, “Is your sparkle gone?” Has your heart calmed down a bit?’

Many answered yes, much to the delight of their special guest.

She explained her mission NBC Nightly News Kid’s Edition saying, “Save (the Children) really realized that there is a lot of trauma in growing up below the poverty line, and if you can name it, then you can heal, you can be resilient and move on.”

The Peppermint star, who also read books to the children, said: ‘It’s amazing to see in action.

She said she was most struck by the children’s stories.

“They wanted me to know how scary it was, what it was like to lose their school, what it was like to lose their home…but they’re processing it.”

As a result of the attention Jennifer and NBC brought to the current conditions at the school, Scholastic donated 10,000 books at a free book fair while she was there.”