36-year-old Jennifer Garner and her look-a-like older sister Melissa were spotted in Santa Monica this week after getting their ears pierced.  This is not the first time Jennifer has pierced her ears, but her third!

Jennifer opened up to Marie Claire in 2007 about why she waited so long to pierce her ears!

When Jennifer and her two sisters were young, they were expected to attend church every Sunday and weren’t allowed to get their ears pierced until they were 16. “But my little sister went out and did it. We all sat at the dinner table waiting for my father to see this. My older sister and I were quaking in our boots! He was never mean to us, certainly never physical. He just commanded so much respect, my dad – still does. He said, ‘Susannah, something happened to your ears.’ Susannah said, ‘I got them pierced’”

Despite the girls fears, the sun did indeed rise the next morning. So did Garner take that as a signal that it was OK to go and get her ears pierced too? “Oh no, certainly not!” she laughs. “In fact, I didn’t even get them done when I was 16 and it would have been OK too.” But, she quickly adds, she did get them done eventually. “I got them done a few years back for a film I did, but let them heal up again afterwards, and then again last year for the earrings I wore to the Oscars.” Garner flicks her earlobes with a big grin: “But they’re all healed again now.”

Looks like third time’s the charm!

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