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Congrats, Grads! Katie Holmes, Madonna and More Celeb Parents With College-Bound Kids

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Jul 11, 2024 1:35 pm·

By Jennifer Lenhart

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It’s that time of year again! Parents are getting ready to send their kids off to college, and even celebrities aren’t immune to the tears shed as they pack up their children for the next big stage in life. From Madonna to Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, several stars are about to push their babies out of the nest.

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Shepherd Seinfeld

“We gave him a flip phone for graduation in hopes he will turn in his smartphone,” Jessica Seinfeld wrote of her and husband Jerry Seinfeld’s 17-year-old, who’s headed to Duke.

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Violet Affleck

Though she was a “wreck” leading up to it, Jennifer Garner says that on the day her and Ben Affleck’s daughter, 18, graduated, “there was nothing to be other than just so proud and happy.” (Violet has hinted she’s going to Yale.)

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David Banda & Mercy James

“They grow up too fast … And, yes, I have a hard time letting go,” Madonna says of her kids, both 18. “Finally, the realization that they were raising me and not the other way around.”

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Suri Noelle

At her graduation ceremony, Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise’s daughter swapped her dad’s surname for her mom’s middle name. She’ll likely be at Carnegie Mellon this fall.

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Henry Samuel

“You did it, my beautiful boy. College, here we come,” Heidi Klum gushed of her and ex- husband Seal’s son, 18.

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Moses Martin

Despite the “incredible sadness” of having her son, 18, leave for Brown University soon, Gwyneth Paltrow admits, “This is exactly what should be happening.”

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