Jennifer Garner's Oscars gown

Jennifer Garner got a respite from questions about her divorce and her Vanity Fair tell-all when she sat down with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday to promote her upcoming faith-based film Miracles From Heaven, reports the ETOnline.

 

Instead of taking about her tumultuous personal life or her children, Garner shared a shockingly intimate story about the difficulties involved in fitting into her curve-hugging black dress for this year's Academy Awards.

 

After Fallon complimented Garner on her stunning red carpet ensemble, Garner went into explicit detail about how the dress was made specifically for her, and wound up sharing more than anyone was expecting.

 

"Do you know how they made it?" Garner asked, pointing to a photo of the custom Versace gown. "See how I have a waist right there? I don't have one in real life anymore."

 

"What they do is, the move your organs around," the 43-year-old mother of three explained with a laugh. According to the star, she was placed into a metal corset by two men "and the next thing I know my ribs were compressed."

 

"It was not like [Spanx], it is so intense," she stressed. "It's not like Scarlett O'Hara. There's metal inside it. And these people just kind of move your ribs and they move your liver out to the side and they pop you in."

 

She went on to explain that, to keep everything in place, she had to step into a partial body-suit that was basically a very tight, very awkward thong. And it was this bizarre body suit that would lead to one insanely awkward situation.