The 15-year-old daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, formerly Seraphina Rose, made her first official appearance under a new name, Fin, at a memorial service for Jennifer’s father last weekend.
Wearing a black pantsuit and a short hairstyle, Fin introduced himself with his new name before reading a Bible verse to the congregation of Christ Church United Methodist in Charleston, West Virginia, on Saturday.
Fin has been photographed with his new short hair as far back as February this year, but the funeral was the first time the leading actors’ son appeared 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 age 85.
Following William’s other grandchildren, Fin introduced himself to the church lectern saying, “Hello, my name is Fin Affleck,” then read chapter 16, verse 8 of the Book of Proverbs: “Better is a little with righteousness, than a lot of income with injustice”. .’
Seraphina Rose, the 15-year-old daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, performed as Fin Affleck at a funeral last weekend.
Fin showed up under his new name at his grandfather’s funeral in West Virginia, wearing a black pantsuit and sporting a buzz cut.
In February, Fin sported a new haircut and wore a backpack with the name FIN embroidered on it while his mom Jennifer kissed them goodbye.
Fin is the middle child of Garner and Affleck, with an older sister, Violet Anne, 18, and a younger brother, Samuel, 15. The family is seen in the 2019 photo.
Fin’s mother, Jennifer, announced Billy’s death on Instagram in a heartbreaking post last Monday, saying he passed away “peacefully.”
‘We are grateful for Dad’s kind demeanor and quiet strength. For how he joked with a mischievous smile and for the way he played the role of girl daddy, always patient. “We are grateful for his work ethic, leadership and faith,” he wrote.
Fin is the middle child of Garner and Affleck, with an older sister, Violet Anne, 18, and a younger brother, Samuel, 15.
His parents separated in 2015 and finalized their divorce in 2018, but they maintain a friendly relationship.
In 2022, Affleck married singer Jennifer Lopez, whose 16-year-old daughter, Emme Maribel Muniz, uses gender-neutral pronouns and has become close to Fin as a stepbrother.
The two were photographed together on a Los Angeles street with Affleck on February 12, with Fin sporting eye-catching pink temporary hair dye.
The first hints of his new name came a few days earlier when Fin was photographed saying goodbye to his mother Jennifer with a hug at the school bus stop in Brentwood, LA. In her photo you can see the name ‘Fin’ embroidered on her backpack.
The teenager has had a boyish haircut for years and has regularly been pictured in more masculine clothing.
The 15-year-old is just one of several famous kids finding their identities.
In 2022, Affleck married singer Jennifer Lopez, whose 16-year-old daughter, Emme Maribel Muniz, uses gender-neutral pronouns and has become close to Fin as a stepbrother. The couple put on Covid masks when they went Christmas shopping together in 2022
The stepbrothers were photographed together on a Los Angeles street with Affleck on February 12, with Fin sporting eye-catching temporary pink dye.
The teenager has had a boyish haircut for years and has regularly been pictured in more masculine clothing. His parents separated in 2015 and finalized their divorce in 2018, but they maintain a friendly relationship.
JLo first publicly introduced Emme’s pronouns to a crowd at the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation’s Blue Diamond Gala, where they both performed in June 2022.
‘[The last time] We perform together in a big stadium like this and I ask them to sing with me all the time but they don’t,’ Lopez said on stage.
‘So this is a very special occasion, because they are very, very busy, reserved and expensive. They cost me when they came out, but they are worth every penny because they are my favorite duet partners of all time.
Ruby, the daughter of actress Jamie Lee Curtis, came out as transgender in 2021.
‘I’m for my daughter Ruby. I’m going to make it them/them,’ Curtis said on the Today show last year.
‘I’m just going to call them that. They, and they are doing very well, are adapting. I just… in my life, I never saw in a million years that there was [these] A couple of days in 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 try to “gather as much information as we can to make sure we give our son the best opportunity to be his best self.”
“We are proud parents of a child from the LGBTQ+ community and we are also proud allies,” she said.
Sigourney Weaver revealed in December 2022 that her and husband Jim Simpson’s 34-year-old son identifies as non-binary, and Charlize Theron hinted at her daughter Jackson’s status in December 2019 when she told Pride Source of the “importance” to use pronouns correctly.
“My daughter’s story is truly her story, and one day, if she chooses, she will tell it,” Theron told the publication.
It has previously been speculated that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s 17-year-old daughter Shiloh was changing gender after her parents made comments about her gender identity.
Jennifer Garner’s father, William John Garner, has died at age 85, the actress announced in a heartbreaking statement earlier this month.
Posting a photo of the couple, the actress, 51, wrote: “My dad peacefully spent Saturday afternoon. We were with him, singing Amazing Grace when he left us (did we pick him up or scare him? Valid question).”
Jolie, 41, told Vanity Fair in 2010, when Shiloh was four: “She likes tracksuits, she likes [regular] suits. Then it’s a suit with a tie, jacket and pants, 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 as a boy. She believes that she is 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] He just wants to be called Juan. Juan or Pedro. So it’s a Peter Pan thing,’ he said. ‘So we have to call her John. ‘Shi, will you…’ – ‘John. I’m John.’ And then I say, ‘John, do you want some orange juice?’ And she says, ‘No!’ So, you know, it’s those kinds of things that are nice to parents and are probably really unpleasant to other people.
Shiloh was photographed on red carpets in masculine attire during her early teens, but more recently she has been seen wearing dresses, including her mother’s Dior dress that she wore to the London premiere of Jolie’s film Eternals on September 27. October 2021.
