The 39-year-old actress and model Charlize Theron, who is dating Sean Penn, has shared her perspective on how the beauty industry links beauty with youth.

"It's ironic that we've built the beauty world around 20-year-olds, when they have no concept about wisdom, what life is about..." Theron answered in the "Q&A With Charlize Theron" article.

Theron, the face of the ongoing ad campaign for Christian Dior Parfums' J'adore fragrance, expressed that women are in their prime when they are in their '40s, but for some reason society looks at them like a "dead flower."

"It's like we wilt for some reason." Theron said, "It's such a misconception and it's such a lost opportunity because that's when I think women are really in the true moment of their sensuality."

The same concept goes for men, expresses the actress. "Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get," says Theron.

Theron, overall, emphasizes that beauty comes from experiences and not from appearance.

She went on to say, "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."

Even at the age of 39, Theron is still one of the world's most photographed women and proves her point that beauty is indeed ageless.