In a recent interview with Women's Wear Daily, actress Charlize Theron candidly revealed her thoughts on beauty and getting older.

"It’s ironic that we’ve built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no f--kin’ concept about wisdom, what life is about, having a few relationships below [their] belt and feeling hardships, to grow into [their] skin and feel confident within [themselves] and to feel the value of who [they] are, not because of a man or because of something like that. And I think that’s such a beautiful thing."

The 39-year-old actress, who's a mother to adopted son Jackson, also went on to discuss how men and women are viewed differently as they grow older.

"That’s why I think people say women come into their prime in their 40s. And then for some reason our society just wants to go…it’s like a dead flower. [She pulls a flower from a vase.] It’s like we wilt for some reason."

However, she did suggest that it's through women being more confident in themselves as they age that will give them strength.

" I think that women find their strength and power in their sexuality, in their sensuality within, [through] getting older and being secure within that."

Charlize Theron: '20-year-olds have no f**kin' concept about wisdom'