Jennifer Garner takes a break from her mom jeans to slip into a sexy black corset

Jennifer Garner has showed off her sexy side for her latest interview to promote her movie Yes Day.

The 48-year-old Alias veteran appeared in black lingerie with high heels and an open coat for photographer Mary Rozzi for the latest issue of The Hollywood Reporter.

And in her accompanying interview the mother of three talked about her split from husband Ben Affleck. 

The brunette told the publication that having her ‘children’s eyes on [her]’ was the hardest part of her divorce from Affleck.

The Pearl Harbor star has Violet, 15, Seraphina, 12, and Samuel, nine, with her former husband – whom she split with in 2015 after a decade of marriage – and has said having to put on a brave face amid the divorce for the sake of her brood was tough.

She said: ‘Going through it in public is not what’s hard, going through it is what’s hard, A, and B, my children’s eyes are on me.’

And because of her and Ben’s star status, Jennifer has told her children to ‘talk’ to either of their parents if they ever see something ‘shocking’ written about them online.

The Peppermint actress told The Hollywood Reporter: ‘When they were smaller and there were things out there that were shocking, my request to them was always, ‘Let Dad and I talk you through whatever it is.’ I’d tell them, ‘If you see an image on the front of a magazine, I’ll look at it with you and we’ll process all the scary feelings that come up together.’ ‘

Garner also said she was told to think about retiring if she didn’t accept a role in Dallas Buyers Club.

The actress took some time out from her career to focus on raising her children and though she was feeling ‘truly overwhelmed’ by her family, she understood she needed to take the part of Dr. Eve Saks when her agent at the time, Patrick Whitesell, called her in 2012 with an ultimatum because she wasn’t ready to be ‘done’ with her career.

She recalled: ‘He said, This is going to be a call about one of two things: It’s going to be a call about you doing this little movie, or it’s going to be a call about you retiring.

‘And I knew I’d asked enough of my representatives, who’d been working their tails off for me and I had said no to everything and kept getting pregnant. But I was truly overwhelmed by a third kid.

‘Ben was making Argo and I was just trying to keep the plates spinning. I also knew that I didn’t want to be done acting, so I said, OK, I’ll do it.’

And her children have told her that her encounters with fans are very different to when they’re out with Ben and he gets approached in the street.

She explained to The Hollywood Reporter: ‘People are in awe of him. He’s done incredible things, he’s six-four, he’s … him, and they treat him with a kind of reverence.

‘They say that people treat me like we were just in the middle of a conversation and they want to get back to it. They’ll see me and be like, Oh, I’ve been meaning to tell you … ‘ 

Ben appeared on is own cover of The Hollywood Reporter last week.