The universal laws of time don’t seem to apply to Sofia Vergara. Exhibit A: this social media video that shows the actress aging (and by aging, we mean somehow looking better and better) over the course of the last three decades. According to Vergara, it’s diligent sun protection—plus a healthy dose of Botox—that’s responsible for her perpetually youthful look.
In a recent interview with Allure, the actress shared that she’s been “religious” about wearing sunscreen since reading an article about the damaging effects of the sun back in the ’90s. “I do think it makes a difference. I’m 51, and I can compare myself to my friends that have never [worn sunscreen] and they’re all like, ‘f***, why didn’t we pay attention to you?’” Vergara is such an SPF devotee that she even launched her own line of sunscreens, Toty, last year.
But it’s not just good skin care (and genetics). “I’ve been doing Botox for a long time in my neck, [around] my eyes,” she said. “I feel like you have to take advantage of everything that is out there. I mean, if you care about aging. Nothing wrong if you don’t care about it. It’s not the end of the world. But if you do, now there’s so much stuff out there.”
One cosmetic procedure she’s not trying? Filler. “I don’t believe in filler. At my age, it’s not going to make you look younger. It is going to make you look more done. And I feel like it actually doesn’t pull you up; it kind of weighs [you down]. So I am against that, once you hit a certain age,” she said.
She is, however, fully supportive of plastic surgery, adding that it’s a lack of free time that has kept her from going under the knife so far: “I feel like I’m going to do every plastic surgery that I can do when I’m ready. I wish I had more downtime; I would have done stuff already. Because I’m in front of the camera, it’s not like I can do something and then sit in my house recuperating for weeks.” And to that, we say: for those looking to speed up their recovery like an A-lister, there’s always hyperbaric oxygen chambers and leech therapy.
