Jennifer Garner reveals her secrets to being 53, flirty, and thriving in candid interview

Jennifer Garner feels she’s 53 going on… 53.The actress got candid on self-love and why at this stage in her life, she’s not looking to be any younger.When asked by Harper’s Bazzar in an interview published on Friday, what age she feels like in her head, Garner quipped: “I don’t know!”“Part of me is, like, really 53 because I’ve really earned every minute of every day of every year.

I don’t want to be younger,” she confessed.“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.

So I’m just very aware of my luck and the grace that’s been shown to me.”Garner, who is mom to kids Violet, 19, Seraphina Rose, 16, and Samuel, 13, with ex-husband Ben Affleck, added that as she’s gotten older, there are more aspects of her physical appearance that she loves.“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,” the “13 Going on 30” alum admitted.“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.'”As the years go by, Garner, who’s been in front of the camera since landing a part on the drama “Felicity” in 1998, has given herself grace.

“But the flip side of that is that I’m not really that stressed about aging or things changing,” she stressed.“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 ar...