Jennifer Garner has made peace with the way she looks. The star of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day tries to maintain a healthy diet, but when she slips up, she doesn't beat herself up. "I eat a lot—a lot—of salads. That's the way that I get my veggies," Garner tells Yahoo! Beauty. "I eat lots of leafy greens, dark greens, with rice, too, because I want it to be a meal. I just have a big bag of greens that I get from the farmer's market on Sunday. I keep it in a Ziploc bag and I just pull out handfuls of it for lunch everyday and add whatever I have to it." Garner says her husband, Batman v. Superman's Ben Affleck, eats similarly most of the time, "unless he's in the middle of really, really training for something. And then, it's such a different thing. Every calorie and every gram of protein—everything's counted in a way that...I don't know how he does it." The actress has no interest in trying to wear "crazy" dresses on the red carpet. "With food I'm probably good 80 percent of the time. I've found out that I cannot pass up pizza without having some. I just can't! My kids have a lot of pizza," Garner, 42, says. "I can't go to a kid's birthday party without having a slice." "I mean, believe me, there's always a point in the fitting where I feel like, 'Why I didn't I just try to lose four pounds and then I could wear any dress?' I just can't, though. I dieted for so long in the middle of doing Alias and being a superhero, that there's something in me that can't do anything that extreme." Don't believe her? As an example, the Men, Women & Children star offers this anecdote: "Last night, I had some blue corn chips and cheddar cheese. And I have a photo shoot today! You know, whatever." Garner doesn't like to overdo it with her red carpet beauty looks, either. "It drives my makeup people crazy! I mean, I have done that stuff before, but red lips on me is obnoxious," the actress says. "I have enough of a big ol' face that the last thing anyone needs is to have anything exaggerated that much." The West Virginia native acknowledges that she has a "wholesome" persona in Hollywood, calling it an "intentional" result of her upbringing. "I mean, we weren't allowed to pierce our ears growing up. We didn't wear makeup. We couldn't have layers in our hair, perms, or color, or manicures. My dad didn't think it was ladylike. My dad just felt like his daughters should be wholesome," she tells Yahoo! Beauty. "Luckily for my dad, none of us really bucked him on it," Garner says. "We were all fine with it." With own daughters, she adds, "I think it's going to be harder. My eldest already wants her ears pierced. I don't know how you do it. I think you try to lead by example. The funny thing about that is my kids see me wearing more makeup than I ever could have imagined. So, they kind of think that's normal."
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