Gillian Anderson Anti-Aging Secrets: 'The X-Files' Star Returns as FBA Agent Dana Scully 'Looking Fit & Fab'

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Gillian Anderson, best known for her role as Dana Scully is still looking fit and fab at 47 as she gears up to star again in the iconic show "The X-Files."

Anderson apparently aged well because of a relatively healthy lifestyle that involves yoga, tai chi and a wheat-free diet, according to Examiner.

"I'm highly sensitive to food," Anderson said, as reported by Celebrity Health Fitness. "Automatically, I can feel the shift in my body [if I eat wheat]."

In addition to tai chi, the "X-Files" star reportedly also hikes to tone her body.

"You immediately feel like you're one with nature [during tai chi]," she explained. "You become the wind and the air you're breathing."

Anderson also isn't saddled with unnecessary stress; especially when she's being pitted with other actresses and women.

"I like women a lot and I champion them. I tell people when they are beautiful, I tell other actresses when I think their work is amazing," she said. "I think women feel relatively comfortable in my presence. Because I'm not perfect, you know? I've got flabby thighs, I'm aging and I'm 5-foot-3."

"The X-Files" is an iconic television show that will be returning to Fox this month. It launched in 1993 and ended in 2002 and produced nine seasons and two feature films.

In the reboot, Anderson will be joined by her on-screen partner FBI Agent Fox Mulder (played by David Duchovny) along with guest star Joel McHale.

A new trailer for the reboot has been released, watch it below:

The two will be reunited as their shared nemesis "The Smoking Man" is found to be alive. The villain (played by William B. Davis) who makes a brief cameo in the trailer was believed to be dead in 2002.

The show's executive producer Chris Carter finds the reboot to be "surreal" as it has already been 13 years since the last episode of the original went off the air.

"It is weird to be talking about this," he said, during the panel at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in California, as reported by The Guardian. "There's a sense of pride just that we actually survived it. The thing about this show that was so amazing to me is that we wrote about what we were interested in - we never pandered.

The outlet adds that the two main stars took a bit of time to process the fame that the show brought them. It was upon realizing it they were able to realize how they are "comfortable with coming back."

"The X-Files" will only run for six episodes and starts on Jan. 24 in the US.