Ben Affleck working to help child soldiers and abused women in Africa
Affleck commits to Africa "I felt like I was always chasing the next job, singing for my supper," Ben Affleck, 43, says in Glamour's May issue. "I didn't feel like I had anything that I could point to and say - and I know this is a cliché - 'I gave back; here are the footprints I left in the sand.' "
Affleck commits to Africa
"I felt like I was always chasing the next job, singing for my supper," Ben Affleck, 43, says in Glamour's May issue. "I didn't feel like I had anything that I could point to and say - and I know this is a cliché - 'I gave back; here are the footprints I left in the sand.' "
He found a worthy cause during a 2007 fact-finding journey through war-torn regions of Africa, including Eastern Congo.
"What I saw was people trying to work and keep their families upright after the child soldiers and the sexual violence," says Affleck, founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, which helps former child soldiers and women subjected to systematic rape.
"I sat with a woman who had been raped multiple times before she was 12," Affleck says. "She said this to me like she was reciting a grocery list - like it was nothing at all. Can you imagine?" He adds: "How can we not do everything we can?"
Divorce suffers baby delay
Anonymous Insider tells E!News that Megan Fox, 29, who filed for divorce from Brian Austin Green in August, may delay proceedings now that she's carrying her third child with Green. The couple, who began dating in 2004 and wed in 2010, have two sons, Noah, 3, and Bodhi, 2. (Green, 42, also has a son, Kassius, 14, with ex-gf Vanessa Marcil.) Source says there are indications the couple may reconcile, adding, "this pregnancy was not planned, but when they found out, they were extremely happy." Neither Fox nor Green has released a statement.
Gossip petits fours
Lindsay Lohan, 29, has become engaged to 22-year-old Russian heir Egor Tarabasov, say TMZ and People. The lovebirds dated for seven months before moving in together in London in March. . . . Fox has renewed Zooey Deschanel's comedy New Girl for a sixth season, says Variety.
Hermeneutics of her body
Lea Michele pays tribute to deceased loved ones in a pair of new tattoos she shared Tuesday on Instagram. A tat of the number 5 on her rib is dedicated to her former lover and Glee costar Keith Monteith, whose character, footballer Finn, wore a No. 5 jersey. The second tat, a tiny steaming coffee mug on one of her fingers, honors her grandmother, who died this week.
"She gave me my first cup of coffee when I was 8 years old," says Lea. "She said something inappropriate to every boyfriend I've ever had. . . . More than anything . . . I love you, Grandma."
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