Julie Bowen on Her Very Own Modern Family

Julie Bowen shares her secrets for juggling work, family, and a health and beauty routine

From the LifeMinute Team

October 27, 2014

When Julie Bowen arrives for her interview, the Emmy Award-winning actress and face of the beauty brand Neutrogena, best known for her role as Type A SuperMom Claire Dunphy on ABC's Modern Family, looks so glowy and refreshed that we skip our burning questions about her hit TV show and jump right into asking about her beauty secrets.

"My beauty secrets are that I don't have any secrets," shares Bowen, "It is very simple and straightforward. I'm in love with the Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair line. It is exactly what it says...You use it and you see results so quickly, so good; the Retinol turns over the cells so you get, like, the new fresh skin -- that's what you want -- but it doesn't itch and burn. Anybody who used Retinol, you know, a decade ago, knows what I'm talking about."

Something else everyone is talking about...what Modern Family has in store for its Halloween episode, an annual fan favorite. Bowen says her character Claire is all about Halloween, too. "Actually, I think it is her favorite holiday because she thinks it gives her an opportunity to show how much edge she has by being very, very gory," says the actress, "Personally, I don't share that love. I love Claire, but this is one area in which we diverge. But this year, Claire and Phil get into a fight because he wants to have like, a rainbow and hearts and stars and giant cupcakes [kind of] Halloween, and Claire wants to keep it evil."

Bowen admits when it comes to mastering a work-life balance, she's also no match for ultra-organized Claire. "I am not an excellent juggler when it comes to my family and my work. I try. I feel like I come up short every day, but the honest to God truth is I've lowered my standards; my children wear mismatched clothes!" confesses Bowen, "But, on my side, I just need to keep things incredibly simple."

What Bowen won't skimp on is a solid yet simple health and beauty routine. "I can't skimp on skin care," reveals Bowen, "I need to be able to go straight to work and look good, even if I have not gotten eight hours of sleep, I don't even know what that is... And [I] keep up with a very, very simple exercise and beauty regime; it is not a time in my life when I need to introduce complicated products, or weird workouts that take hours and hours."

When asked what beauty products Bowen is loving right now, the actress reveals it's not a long list and, naturally, Neutrogena is tops among her faves. "I don't want 15 jars, and I don't want 22 products, and I don't want to remember, like, have a map of what I have to do; it's very straightforward and simple." Here, again, the actress dishes about the results she's seen with Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle Repair, "The eye cream and the serum and the night and the day moisturizers...it all has the stuff I already need in it, so that is one less thing I have to worry about in the morning. I've got to worry about gas in the car, lunches, school projects and getting to work on time. I don't need to worry about skin care."

You can catch Julie Bowen on Modern Family, now in its sixth season, on Wednesdays at 9pm/8pm Central on ABC.

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