People magazine has made Jennifer Garner the star [1] of its annual Beautiful issue! On April 23, the 47-year-old actress revealed the big news on The Ellen DeGeneres Show [2] and couldn't help but feel shocked. "Ah, it's so embarrassing!" she said after seeing the cover for the first time. The 13 Going on 30 star [3] — who joins former recipients Pink [4], Julia Roberts [5], and Lupita Nyong'o [6] — went on to share how anxious she was to announce the feature on air. "I guess I just thought you guys would boo," she said. "Like, you guys are expecting Kaia Gerber, and it's me. And I feel like bolting, I feel like I should go, you know what I mean? 'Cause it's so ridiculous."

Although Jennifer can't believe it, there's no question that she's deserving of the title. Whether she's pulling off an amazing April Fools' joke [7], playing the saxophone [8], or showing off her stunning red carpet style [9], she's always managed to let her personality shine through both on and off screen while connecting with fans. She even told People that many of her supporters [10] "tend to feel like I'm the girl they grew up next to or an old friend, and they want to continue a conversation that I didn't know we were having."

In the issue — which hits stands on April 26 — Jennifer also opened up about not paying attention to negativity. "Not only do I not read comments, I work very hard to not see the pictures, to not read articles or to know what's out there at all," she said. "And it's not that I don't care, it's that I care too much. Instagram is a different story because I don't get a lot of people being mean."

Instead, the Love, Simon actress focuses on the beauty of being a mother to her three kids [11] — Violet, 13, Seraphina, 10, and Samuel, 7 — whom she shares with ex-husband Ben Affleck [12]. "I'm starting to get to the point where I realise this job is not going to be forever," she said. "Not in the all-encompassing every meal, every moment, every day way that I have loved for the last thirteen years. It's going to shift. But there's beauty in how it works in episodes."