Jennifer Garner reveals the 1 promise she 'refuses' to make to her 3 kids


Jennifer Garner made her stance on cosmetic surgery clear in a new interview and admitted there is one promise she can't make to her kids


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Jenni McKnight
Jenni McKnightUS Lifestyle Editor
February 26, 2026
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Jennifer Garner won't make a promise she can't keep, especially to her three children, Violet, 20, Fin, 17, and Samuel, 14.

The 53-year-old had a candid conversation about aging on Thursday's episode of Kylie Kelce's Not Gonna Lie podcast and confessed that while she spends "so much money" on cosmetic treatments, she won't rule out more invasive procedures in the future, even at the request of her children.

"Once a year, I go see someone, and I'm like, I'm a pincushion. I can't really tell the difference after because that's what I've noticed: The more you spend on a dermatologist doing a bunch of things to your face, the less you can tell that they've done it," she explained.

"And somehow, that's a good thing. I don't know why. But I will go pay them so much money to say, 'I don't want to see it.'"

While Jennifer seems happy to continue visiting her dermatologist for now, she admitted that her children are already pleading with her not to undergo more drastic treatments in the future.

"My kids are like, 'Mom, promise us you'll never get a facelift.' And I say, 'I am unlikely to rush toward a facelift,'" she admitted. "And yet I refuse to make that promise because I am me today, and I don't know how I'm gonna feel."

Jennifer Garner and her daughter Violet arrive for the White House state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House on December 1, 2022 in Washington, DC. The official state visit is the first for the Biden administration. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)© Getty Images
Jennifer 'refuses' to promise her kids she won't ever get a facelift

While the Alias star didn't go into detail about her treatments, she did admit that she won't try Botox again.

"Of course, I've tried Botox and all that, but it takes very little to completely freeze my forehead," the 13 Going on 30 actress explained.

"And then I just feel so conspicuous, like I've got a walking billboard. I might as well get a tattoo of something, you know, across it. It's horrible. So, no, the Botox in the forehead, unfortunately, is not for me."

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Jennifer has ruled out ever having Botox again

Instead of Botox, Jennifer admitted that when she's feeling insecure about her "creasy wrinkles," she simply gets bangs instead.

"I do, I have creasy wrinkles, and I'm just they're gonna have to just be there," she said. "So sometimes I get bangs."

Jennifer continued: "So don't think that I don't have something in there because I haven't done surgery. I haven't, I would tell you if I had. I haven't done any of that stuff.

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Jennifer will sometimes have bangs to disguise her forehead wrinkles

"I also think that anyone who wants to do whatever they wanna do, they look beautiful. They look beautiful," she added.

Meanwhile, Jennifer recently spoke about raising her children in two separate households following her divorce from their father, Ben Affleck.

The mother-of-three admitted that she provides "a bit of both" when it comes to raising her kids with a "conscientious upbringing" and "appreciation."

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Jennifer and Ben co-parent their 3 kids

"And I think my kids' dad does too. Especially when your kids grow up in two separate households, I become mom and dad, and he becomes dad and mom," she shared on Bustle's One Nightstand YouTube series.

"You kind of can't help it, right? Because you don't have the benefit of both sides of the yin and yang being in the same house."

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