I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.

I definitely don't read any tabloids. You really have to find a way to separate the words of people you respect - stranger or not, but respectful content, positive or negative - and people who are just in pain and projecting their own sh*t onto you.

My golden time is after I drop the kids off at school. I'm usually working on my website (lifestyle site Goop) and checking emails but I try to do something at least once a week - like a facial or a visit to the osteopath - something to bring myself back into my body.

When we’re home sometimes, she’ll put on mascara. And sometimes I’ll let her wear something out to dinner – but just a little dab. Also having a father who adores you the way that he adores her is very good for your body image. The more we can love her and let her be who she is, the more confident she’ll feel.

To be a woman in your forties, I think it's a fantastic decade.

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.