United Kingdom, Feb. 27 -- Jennifer Garner has opened up about the challenges she's faced while co-parenting her children with Ben Affleck.

The Hollywood actress married Ben in 2005 and they welcomed three kids - Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 40 - but they split after a decade of marriage in 2015 with the former couple focusing on raising their family together despite the divorce and Jennifer, 53, has revealed each of them learned how to be "both parents".

During an appearance on Bustle's One Nightstand podcast, Jennifer explained: "When your kids grow up in two separate households, I become mom and dad, and he becomes dad and mom.

"You kind of can't help it, right? Because you don't have the benefit of both sides, the yin and...