Jennifer Aniston Is PEOPLE's 2016 World's Most Beautiful Woman!

Jennifer Aniston Is PEOPLE's 2016 World's Most Beautiful Woman!

Jennifer Aniston may be one of the a lot of attractive stars in Hollywood, but she was still ashamed and "very, actual flattered" if she aboriginal heard the account that she was getting called the A lot of Beautiful Woman in the World. "I thought, 'Oh my God,' " she tells PEOPLE in this week's awning story. "There was this array of actual excited, teenage-y affectionate of moment."

The actress, who says she's abstruse to embrace her actualization over the years, insists she feels her best if she's advantageous and strong.

"It's funny, it's a absolutely quick alteration from not a affliction and now all of a sudden, we've got to absolutely be alert of what we put central our bodies," she adds. "And how we beddy-bye and yield affliction of ourselves. You can get abroad with a lot in your 20s."

Aniston, 47, was aboriginal motivated to alpha demography affliction of herself aboriginal on in her career afterwards an abettor told her she didn't get a allotment because she was "too chubby."

"I was like, 'What?!' But my diet was terrible," she says. "Milk all-overs and French chips with gravy [laughs]. It was a acceptable affair to alpha paying attention."

Now the extra mixes it up by appliance at atomic six canicule a anniversary for about an hour anniversary day and watching her diet. But that doesn't beggarly she will not allow in her favorites. From chips and guacamole to her bedmate Justin Theroux's pasta carbonara, which they accomplish calm every brace of weeks, "I'm not as austere as I was," she says. "It was consistently array of a monitored watch. Then I anticipation just accord yourself moderation."

Besides affable and appliance with her husband, Aniston says just getting affiliated to Theroux brings her the greatest joy. "He makes me laugh. He's so absorbing and so interested," she says. "He's awfully accomplished in added areas than one and he's just a acceptable man."

As for her accustomed look, the extra gives abounding acclaim to her glam band for teaching her "everything that I know! Whatever was accident afore was just unfortunate," says the star, abacus that she now knows how to curve her cheeks and draft out her hair. "When I was in my 20s, my face was about a complete circle. So I absolutely bare contouring. And now I'm boring chiseling away, adulatory I had that annular face back."

If she could magically try any new attending and instantly go back, Aniston says she'd be bold to analysis out a brownie cut. "If I knew I could instantly advance it back. I'm actual analytical to see what I would attending like with absolutely abbreviate hair," she says. "But I'll never do it. Never. I'm a continued hair girl. It's like a aegis blanket."

So how does Aniston ascertain beauty? "Inner confidence. Peace. Kindness. Honesty. A activity well-lived," she says. "Taking on challenges and not activity abashment for things that haven't gone the way you acquainted they should have. And not activity like a abortion or acceptance humans to appraisal your activity and accomplish you feel like you've bootless at something. That's just baneful noise."

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