Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck’s 15-year-old daughter, formerly Seraphina Rose, debuts new name Fin

15-year-old Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, formerly Seraphina Rose, made their first official appearance under a new name, Fin, at a memorial service for Jennifer’s father last weekend.

Wearing a black pantsuit and cropped haircut, Fin introduced themselves under their new name before reading a Bible verse to the congregation at Christ Church United Methodist in Charleston, West Virginia, on Saturday.

Fin has been pictured with their new, cropped hair back in February this year, but the funeral marked the first time the star actor’s child introduced himself in public with a new name.

The memorial service, streamed live on Facebook, was for Jennifer Garner’s father William Jack Garner, who died a week earlier at the age of 85.

Following William’s other grandchildren, Fin introduced himself at the church lectern and said, “Hello, my name is Fin Affleck,” then read chapter 16, verse 8 from the book of Proverbs: “Better is a little with righteousness, than a great income with injustice .’

Fin’s mother Jennifer announced Billy’s death on Instagram in a heartbreaking post on Monday, saying he passed away ‘peacefully’.

“We are grateful for Dad’s kind attitude and quiet strength. For the way he teased with a mischievous smile, and for the way he invented the role of the ever-patient girl dad. We are grateful for his work ethic, leadership and faith,” she wrote.

Fin is the middle child of Garner and Affleck, with older sister Violet Anne, 18, and younger brother Samuel, 15.

Their parents separated in 2015 and finalized their divorce in 2018, but maintain an amicable relationship.

In 2022, Affleck married singer Jennifer Lopez, whose 16-year-old daughter Emme Maribel Muniz uses gender-neutral pronouns and has grown close to Fin as a step-sibling.

The two were photographed with Affleck on a Los Angeles street on February 12, with Fin wearing a striking temporary pink hair dye.

The first hints of their new name came a few days earlier when Fin was pictured hugging mom Jennifer goodbye at their school bus stop in Brentwood, LA. The photo shows the name ‘Fin’ embroidered on their backpack.

The teenager has had a boyish haircut for years and is regularly depicted in more masculine clothing.

The 15-year-old is just one of many famous kids discovering their identities.

JLo first publicly introduced Emme’s pronouns to an audience at the LA Dodgers Foundation’s Blue Diamond Gala, where they both performed in June 2022.

“(The last time) we performed together was in a big stadium like this, and I ask them all the time to sing with me, but they don’t,” Lopez said on stage.

‘So this is a very special occasion, because they are very busy, fully booked and expensive. They will cost me when they come out, but they are worth every penny because they are my favorite duet partner of all time.”

Actress Jamie Lee Curtis’ daughter Ruby came out as transgender in 2021.

‘I support my daughter Ruby. I let them be a they/them,” Curtis said on the Today show last year.

‘I’m just going to call them. They/them, and they are doing great, they are getting used to it. I never in my life in a million years saw that I would have (these) few days, and I’m very moved by the whole thing.”

Former Miami Heat NBA player Dwyane Wade said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in February 2020 that he had taken on new “roles and responsibilities” since his daughter Zaya came out as transgender.

He said he and his wife Gabrielle Union are trying to “gather as much information as possible to ensure we give our child the best opportunity to be her best self.”

“We are proud parents of a child in the LGBTQ+ community, and we are also proud allies,” he said.

Sigourney Weaver revealed in December 2022 that her and husband Jim Simpson’s 34-year-old child identifies as non-binary, and Charlize Theron hinted at her daughter Jackson’s status in December 2019 when she told Pride Source about the “importance” of getting her pronouns right.

“My daughter’s story is truly her story, and one day, if she chooses, she will tell her story,” Theron told the publication.

There has previously been speculation that 17-year-old Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh changed gender after her parents made comments about her gender identity.

Jolie, 41, told Vanity Fair in 2010 when Shiloh was four years old: ‘She likes tracksuits, she likes (regular) suits. So it’s a suit with a tie and a jacket and trousers, or a tracksuit. She likes to dress like a boy. She wants to be a boy. So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear everything for boys. She thinks she’s one of the brothers.’

Pitt, 60, told Oprah Winfrey two years earlier that his then-two-year-old daughter wanted to be called “John.”

“(Shiloh) just wants to be called John. John or Peter. So it’s a Peter Pan thing,” he said. ‘So we should call her John. “Shi, do you want to…” – “John. I’m John.’ And then I say, ‘John, would you like some orange juice?’ And she says, ‘No!’ So, you know, it’s just those kinds of things that are fun for parents and probably really off-putting for other people.”

Shiloh was pictured on the red carpet in masculine outfits during her teenage years, but more recently she has worn dresses, including her mother’s Dior dress which she donned for a London premiere of Jolie’s film Eternals on October 27, 2021.