Jennifer Garner’s one of Hollywood’s most famous actresses, but that doesn’t mean she needs a lavish baby shower!

She celebrated the upcoming birth of her third child quietly at a friend’s home in the Brentwood section of LA on Feb. 1, Life & Style has learned.

“It was a lot of moms and very small,” a friend of the star tells Life & Style. “It was just a normal group her friends, but Jen was very excited to see everyone.”

And the mom of Violet, 6, and Seraphina, 3, didn’t event want gifts!

“She asked that no one give her anything, but she still ended up getting a ton!” the friend adds. “She was thrilled.”

But what’s Jennifer, 39, looking most forward to? Adding to her brood with her husband of six years, Ben Affleck.

“She’s so excited,” the friend tells Life & Style.

“Having a baby fills your life in such a way that no matter what you’re doing, there’s something bigger,” Jen has said about motherhood.

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I have added new candids of Jen picking up Violet from ballet class and later bringing Seraphina and Violet to the beach earlier on today.

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I have added new candids of Jen shopping at Michaels:

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I have added new candids of Jen and Seraphina earlier on today.

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I have added new candids of Jen at Brentwood County Mart earlier on today.

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I have added new candids of Jen out yesterday.

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Check out Jen’s article on Huffington Post about Save The Children:

This post is part of a series on childhood poverty in the United States in partnership with Save the Children and Julianne Moore. Moore leads the organization’s Valentine’s Day campaign, through which cards are sold to support the fight against poverty in the U.S. To learn more or to purchase the cards, click here.

My mother, Pat, grew up during the dustbowl depression and to say her family was poor would be an understatement. Still, you wouldn’t know it hearing her talk about it. Her family played games, sang songs, recited poetry and my mom had an exceptional teacher who lit her up when it came to learning.

My mom was the only one in her family to graduate from college and she put herself through school working in the cafeteria. She went on to lead a very adventurous and she would say exceptional life.

Growing up in West Virginia, I witnessed a different kind of poverty — a more difficult kind of poverty. It was a more dyed-in-the-wool, resigned-to-helplessness that permeated the forgotten communities in the mountains.

It was thinking about this gap between my mother’s hopeful, forward-looking childhood and the quiet acceptance I saw in kids a town or two away from mine that led me to my work with Save The Children’s U.S. Programs.

Children in this country start kindergarten when they are five- or six-years-old. My daughters donʼt really understand this yet, but they’ve already won.

Here is why: kids growing up in poverty have heard, by the time they turn four, 30 million fewer words than my kids.

They are developmentally 18 months behind their middle class counterparts.

If you think like a two and a half year old when you’re four, imagine where you are when you start kindergarten. Itʼs too late; weʼve already lost them.

A few months ago, I visited one of Save the Children’s sites in Yucca Valley, California, one of nearly 200 rural and often forgotten communities that we serve across the southwest and southeast, many of which are very much places like the mountains of West Virginia. Yucca, though, is quite different — it’s a sparse, desert community.

The poverty rate for infants and toddlers in Yucca is double the rate in the rest of California.

I visited the home of 11-month-old Matthew, whose young parents earn well below the national poverty threshold of $22,000 per year. They live in a small home, isolated from other families. I read to Matthew alongside one of Save the Children’s home visit coordinators.
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I have added new candids of Jen and Seraphina earlier on today.

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January 31 2012: Santa Monica, CA

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I have added new candids of Jen out on Sunday and later with Ben.

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