Jennifer Garner says paparazzi knocked over children for photos of her and Ben Affleck

Jennifer Garner has said that paparazzi went to extreme lengths to try and take photographs of her and Ben Affleck, including knocking over children.

Speaking to Evan Ross Katz on the Shut Up Evan podcast, the 13 Going on 30 star said she recognised the privilege her children have grown up in, but the methods photographers would use to try and take pictures of them were "a danger to everyone around us."

"If I went through a yellow light, 15 cars would go through the red behind me... Kids were getting knocked over coming out of preschool by photographers who were so hungry to get to me or to Ben, trying to get to our kids," Garner recalled.

When the host asked her if the current landscape had changed, Garner said she has two photographers who have been "assigned" to her for "20-plus years."