Jennifer Garner is every inch the doting mother as she enjoys beach day in Malibu with her children

She co-parents her three children with ex-husband Ben Affleck.

And Jennifer Garner was enjoying some family bonding time on Wednesday as she took the youngsters to the beach.

The actress, 48, was making the most of the summer with Violet, 14, Seraphina, 11, and Samuel, eight. 

The 13 Going On 30 star looked stunning as she enjoyed the beach day in Malibu in a white top and jeans.

She looked deep in conversation with her eldest Violet, who now appears taller than her mother, during the family trip.

Jennifer was later seen with her arm around her youngest daughter Seraphina before taking a picture of young Samuel who had buried himself in the sand. 

The movie star split with movie star husband Ben Affleck in 2015 after 11 years together.

Despite the breakup of their marriage, both parents have managed to maintain a positive relationship, and they regularly come together to support their children at school events and special occasions. 

In March, she spoke to The Tonight Show of her experiences with her three children in lockdown, saying: ‘I think I have the perfect aged kids for this [global pandemic crisis].

‘Because they are big enough to understand and to have the conversations like, “We’re built for challenge. We can do this. We’re a tough team. Let’s learn about a vacuum cleaner.” But then they’re not so big that they’re just like, “Well I don’t care, I’m going to go…”

Jennifer is currently having a new mansion built for herself in Brentwood, California.

She snapped up the lot in July 2018 for $6.5 million and enlisted architect Ken Ungar to build the mansion there, X17online reported.

Late that year Ben and Jen sold their marital home in the Pacific Palisades to Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo for $32 million, according to TMZ.

Ben is currently conducting a whirlwind romance with his Deep Water co-star Ana de Armas, who is a decade and a half his junior.