Taraji P. Henson isn’t about to let insecurities override her work ethic or her destiny. The actress recently opened up to Entertainment Tonight about how she does it. 

“As humans, we all have them. But I try not to give them power,” she said. “I try not to feed into them.” Still, she admits there are moments she notices things aren’t flattering about herself. 

“Like yesterday, I was sitting on the stage … and my knees just looked really fat,” she recalls. “I looked down and was like, ‘Oh my god.’” But, “You know what? I’d rather have fat knees than knobby knees!”

“Life is fleeting, time is ticking. We’re sitting here and we got five minutes that we will never get back,” she says, adding that she’s “learning to enjoy the now and embrace the unknown because that’s life. You have no control.”