Jennifer Garner is catching and releasing any conflicting thoughts about aging.

After all, the 13 Going on 30 star revealed she isn’t afraid of getting 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,” the 53-year-old told Harper’s Bazaar in a June 6 interview. “If you look through 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.’”

Instead, Jennifer—who shares Violet , 19, Seraphina , 16, and Samuel , 13 with ex-husband Ben Affleck —approaches the idea of self-care and beauty differently. In fact, she doesn’t “spend a lot of time in the mirror” these days, but

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