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Despite the cinema and television statards, high-level relationships and braces in the industry,Jennifer Garnerstayedcelebrity that the fans think like down-to-earth. In a newInterview with the authorKelly CorriganThe actor has opened on how his Western Virginia and his experience of his mother living in poverty have influenced his prospects.

"My parents are only salt of the earth," said Garner on Monday evening episode of the PBS discussion roomTell me more with Kelly Corrigan. His father Billy Jack comes from Texas (where Garner was born) and his mother Patricia was raised in a farm in Locust Grove, Oklahoma.

"My mother was so mediocre that it's just incredible that she managed to leave," continued Garner. "In fact, when I moved to New York after the college, my mother said," Jennifer, no matter what you do, it will never be as big as an agreement as for me to leave this farm. "

Garner told a story of his mother's childhood, when she nourished one of the richer local families and read their copies ofRescue magazine.

"InRescue magazineShe saw pictures of other places and she just wanted to leave, "the actor explained." And she found an announcement to be a daughter Scouet advisor in Maine and posted and headed in Maine and it was kind of the beginning of the real itching of my mother to see and understand the world. And now, it is part of 50 states and seven continents. "

TheA.k.aStar's mother also won her graduate degree after the birth of the future actor and taught reading the state of the state of Western Virginia. ("She had a lot of children who traveled the public school system in Western Virginia and were in college but were also illiterate," Garner said.) His father also traveled, who opened the world for their children, even as they grew up in a state where people tended to stay put.

Although Garner is clearly proud of her parents' travels, she remembered in Corrigan once asking her mother if she disturbed it at all so that Garner publicly speaks her poverty.

"And she said," I'm never ashamed to grow poor. Instead, I am surprised by the grace and dignity that my parents had all my childhood "" the actor remembered.

Garner described Growing up in Western Virginia as "a real childhood", but noted that his original state "is the bottom of the barrel of education and fair health and health". (According toU.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT,Western Virginia ranks last rank Of the 50 states of the economy and infrastructure, 48th health care and 44th of education.)

"And yet, if you grow up at this place and that you have been surrounded by people who take care of their neighbors, who take care of themselves ..." Garner continued. "I have a pride so deep to be from and this stock."

The links of Garner for his community are obvious in his philanthropic work. She is on theTrustee board to save children, an organization with a mission of "[Give] children in the United States and the world a healthy start of life." In the same wayAmy AdamsGarnerLaunched the #savewithsteries of the organization Campaign in March, in which celebrities shared their favorite books on Instagram to raise awareness and promote donations to support families who rely on free school lunches through Covid-related school closures.

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