By Bedika Hollywood star Jennifer Garner feels lucky to have a "lovely life", but the actor, popular for romantic comedies like 13 Going on 30, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Valentine's Day, says she never tries to present perfect image on social media. Garner said she leads a normal life and encourages others to do the same. "Look, I don't post on Instagram very often, maybe once or twice a week. But when I do, I definitely am usually not in makeup. I usually am in whatever I happen to be wearing. And granted, I do live a lovely life and I'm very lucky that way... But I try to take the perfection out of it. "I'm not a perfect cook and yet I love to cook. So in my own quiet way, I'm trying to just encourage that side of other women and feel like we don't have to be airbrushed just to be, just to show up for each other," Garner told PTI. The actor now stars in The Five-Star Weekend, an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand's novel of the same name that will see her play a celebrity as a food influencer. Hilderbrand's The Perfect Couple was recently adapted by Netflix. In "The Five-Star Weekend", Garner's Hollis Shaw invites her girlfriends from different decades of her life as a way to process her grief after the sudden death of her husband. The Peacock show features a star-studded cast in Chloe Sevigny, D'Arcy Carden, Timothy Olyphant and Gemma Chan among others. It will start streaming in India on JioHotstar from Friday. Garner said she was looking for something interesting and complicated when she found Hilderbrand's 2023 novel and instantly connected with its story.

 

"I love Elin Hilderbrand's writing. I loved this particular novel. I was surprised by it as I read it all the way through from beginning to end. I love Bekah Brunstetter, who is our showrunner. I loved her adaptation. She's a playwright. She has a deft hand. She's gifted at character, at comedy, at drama, all of it," the actor said. "There aren't that many roles that are appropriately complex and compelling for a woman in their 50s. So, I was thrilled to be offered the role, honestly. There were lots of ways that I connected with Hollis Shaw and definitely one of them was being a public person while dealing with something privately." Like her character in the show, Garner said she has always found strength in her friends. My girlfriends are everything—they've always supported me and are an extension of the sisterhood I share with my two sisters. I can't imagine a more beautiful place for a girls' weekend than Nantucket, which has become a favourite gathering spot for fans of Elin Hilderbrand's books." Jennifer Garner said one of the joys of filming was seeing fans visit locations they had first discovered through the story. "They go around and see all the places they've read about in the books. And as we were shooting there, they'd be on the lookout for us. That was really fun. But honestly, I think a gathering of girlfriends can be just as comfortable in your own home. It doesn't matter as long as you're together," she said.