Jennifer Garner is 53 years old and she’s loudly shouting her age from the rooftops.
She’s not interested in shaving off five or eight years, like some celebrities in Hollywood, because Garner believes that aging is a privilege — and it’s refreshing to hear.
“Part of me is, like, really 53 because I’ve really earned every minute of every day of every year,” she explained to Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t want to be younger. I’m very grateful to be exactly this age. I’m trying to soak it up. I feel like I’m living in my power. I’m living in my wisdom. I’m living in my joy and my capacity to do and get things done.”
Garner praised her mother for giving her the confidence to not fall prey to what society expects of women in this season of life. “Part of the gift of being my mother’s daughter is that I haven’t spent a lot of time stressing about my physical appearance. I don’t spend a lot of time in the mirror,” she admitted. Right not, she’s “I’m not really that stressed about aging or things changing.”
Her simple approach to a fine line or wrinkle is to “wear bangs a lot” because “Botox doesn’t work very well” for her. She’s open about experimenting with it, but it’s not the right treatment for her.
This isn’t the first time Garner has shared a positive view on aging. In June 2024, she gave a Marie Claire writer, who was about to turn 30, the best pep talk ahead of their milestone birthday.
“Tell all your friends that their 30s—it just keeps getting better and better thirties are great. Forties are better. Fifties seem to be better than that,” she said. “So, keep your chin up, it’s all okay.”
If we took Garner’s words to heart, maybe there wouldn’t be such a stigma around getting older.
“Honestly, mostly, I am grateful just to be alive,” she told People in March 2024. “And I’m grateful for the wisdom that I’ve gleaned out of these years and really grateful to be able to watch other women go through this process of life so gracefully.” It’s why she’s sharing the advice she heard and spreading the message to others, ” ‘Take care of yourself, but don’t be scared. Aging is a gift.’ “
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