Jennifer Garner has a new profile in Harper’s Bazaar to promote her longstanding relationship with Neutrogena. Garner is a natural fit for that company and you can tell she uses their products. She’s talked about using Neutrogena since she was a teenager. Garner is making the most headlines for her quotes about injectables and plastic surgery, but I wanted to focus on her thoughts on aging. As a woman right around her age, that resonated with me somewhat. We think about how old we want to get and what that will mean exactly. Here’s some of what she told Bazaar, with more at the source:

What aspects of your physical appearance do you love more now, as you’ve gotten older?
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. Sometimes I could spend more time in the mirror; I’m sure I’ve had things in my teeth or a bump in my hair. So there are pluses and minuses to it. If you look through, like, the last 20-plus years of paparazzi pictures of me, you would see images and say, “You would be best served by spending more time thinking about what you look like.”

But the flip side of that is that I’m not really that stressed about aging or things changing. I have my moments, of course, where I’ll look in the monitor at work and be like, “Who is that? Ah, that’s me!” But I think less is more, as far as focusing on yourself too much in that way. What are you going to do? I want to age. I want to live to be 100. I don’t expect to look at 100 like I look today. I want to wear every single bit of those 100 years and feel great about them. But what do I like better about myself? Well, I don’t know that I used to think about it at all, but I’m more friendly to myself in general.

Which beauty products would you say have aged well?
Well, you know, sunscreen ages well. My dermatologist friend Doris Day says nothing looks better in your 50s than sunscreen in your 20s. And as someone who was not a sunbather in my 20s—I just didn’t have that patience—I luckily did wear sunscreen. I can tell you, the products have only gotten better, every single iteration, every single year, and I’m grateful for them now that I’m in my 50s.

A lot of conversations around aging seem to lead to injectables and plastic surgery. Tell us, what are your thoughts on the topic?
Well, I don’t judge whatever makes anyone look or feel their best. I haven’t needed it yet, but I can’t say that I haven’t said to doctors before, “Do I need to do this?” And I’ve had really nice doctors who have just been like, “No.” So, God only knows 10 years from now what the conversation will be. I’m not there yet. But as far as injectables go, I think just find somebody fantastic and proceed with caution. I don’t do a ton, and Botox doesn’t work very well for me; that’s why I wear bangs a lot. I like to be able to move my forehead, and it’s such a big part of my face. I have, like, a five-head.

Many people fear growing older. In your opinion, what is the best part about it?
Growing older is the best! It’s like you’re more confident and you worry less. I had no idea how much I was going to love having teenagers. They’re just so smart and funny. They make me laugh, and they’re so sweet.

[From Harper’s Bazaar]

I’m not sure that I want to live to triple digits, but I’m aiming for over 90. When you get to your 50s and see your loved ones aging you start to think about your own mortality. My parents are quite healthy for their ages and they still go through a lot in their early 80s. You want to make sure you’re making the most of your time, and focusing on the superficial is not it. Still, I’m a fussy person and I like to look cute. It’s got to be hard as an actress to resist getting plastic surgery and it’s rare to see actresses even in their 30s who haven’t had injectables. I’ve seen plastic surgeons break down how celebrities get surgery and just look “fresh” without being overdone. That’s likely not the case with Garner, and I believe her that she’s only had botox as she doesn’t look as frozen as many in her industry.

Garner is also getting press for being photographed kissing her boyfriend of about seven years, John Miller. They’ve been photographed together before but they’re exceptionally good at keeping under the radar. Those photos are so exclusive only TMZ has them, so I bet they were genuinely caught in a private moment.

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