Aniston's Mirror Image
[Jennifer Aniston] is actually very smart and articulate about herself and her emotional life, perhaps in part because she saw the same shrink for many years. When I ask about her therapist, she says, "My shrink died." At first I think she's kidding, but then I quickly realize she's not. How terrible, I say. "Yeah, she actually died a year ago this past December." As I do the math, it slowly dawns on me that her therapist died the month before she and Pitt separated.We're not supposed to feel sorry for Jennifer Aniston but her shrink died a month before she and Brad Pitt separated. That is sad! But... it looks like last month's leaked cover of the April 2006 issue ("The Shape Issue") of Vogue was accurate. Jennifer Aniston, 36, is the Vogue cover girl once again (compare to"The Age Issue" of Vogue from August 2002, pictured right). Read the full Jennifer Aniston Vogue April 2006 article after the jump and more pictures in the gallery!
PHOENIX RISING :: "The beauty of human resilence is that you
do bounce back," says Jennifer Aniston. (Left :: Gucci black
chiffon cutout dress. OMO Norma Kamali silver bathing suit.
Right :: Donna Karan Collection red jersey halter dress.)
BODY LANGUAGE :: Jennifer Aniston says, "Yoga makes you
feel strong. Inner strength. I love it." (Left :: Narcisco Rodriguez
black silk-chiffon dress over silver slip dress. Right :: Rick
Owens gray mesh tank and white cotton mesh skirt.)
Jennifer Aniston
Vogue April 2006
The Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hold is just about as old as old Hollywood gels. Though it is still a place where power breakfasts arc played out and celebrities meet their agents for lunch, it is also undeniably anachronistic and tourist-trappy, especially during Ihe dinner hour. The pink-and-green color scheme, the perfumed ladies with facelifts and set hair, the meticulously elaborate sellings of crystal and silver—-it all screams bygone era. It is not hard to imagine that Debbie Reynolds came to this very room to nurse her wounds while projecting chin-up determination after that minx Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher away. So I am not a little perplexed when Jennifer Aniston decides that this is where we are to meet one Thursday afternoon for lunch in early February.
When I arrive at the maitre'd station at the appointed time and announce that I'm here to see Aniston, I am whisked away to table 46—the table—a large, round corner booth all the way in the farthest corner of the room. So this is J.A.'s secret hideout. Ingenious! Who would ever think to look for her here? Still, I am puzzled. It is a beautiful, sunny day. and sitting in the dark swank of a hotel bar is not exactly Aniston's style. The first time I met her, in May 2002, she showed up in cutoffs and a tank top, flip-flops, and toe rings. Despite the lurky presence of paparazzi, we window-shopped on Beverly and ate pizza at some random liltle Italian joint. The next time we met, in the fall of 2003, we sat out on the patio of II Sole, a supercasual hipster spot on Sunset, smoking cigarettes and drinking too much wine while, again, photographers lay in wait for her. Has the woman who famously loves cheap Mexican food and margaritas grown up and gone fancy? Or perhaps she's taken her new role as divorcee a step too far. I half expect her to make an entrance in a fur coat and Laura Biagiolti sunglasses.
Just then, I see Aniston breeze past the window as she is being led through a ripple of whispers and head-turns to a table... outside. She's wearing tight, low-cut jeans, black boots, and a long black sweater over a dark-green T-shirt. I gather my things and head out to look for her, and as I'm walking across the patio toward her table she lights up with a big smile and waves. Phew. Despite the fact that she is just getting over a four-week-long bout with the flu, she looks fantastic tanned and fit and youthful- and is in an ebullient, expansive mood. I, too, am in an inexplicably good mood, and she notices it right away. "Why are you so chipper?" she says with mock suspicion. "How long has this mood lasted, and what are you taking?" She laughs. "I'm leasing." She orders an iced tea-lemonade concoction. "I am in a good mood today," she says, "but I have not been in a good mood lately." It is right here, at this comment, that we begin our little dance, talking in ever-smaller circles around the elephant in the room. Not once during our two-and-a-half-hour lunch are Their names ever mentioned. Which is not to say that we don't, in some strange way, talk about them. Or that thing that happened to all three of them last year.
Aniston is resolute about not getting specific. She will not give those weekly gossip rags another sound bite or plot line in the never-ending saga that plays out like some kind of tacky telenovela, week in and week out, on their covers. Not a single scrap will go to the vultures! I mention to Aniston that my mother happened to call me on my cell phone just before I came to meet her and asked what I was doing in L.A. I'm interviewing Jennifer Aniston, I said. "Oh, that poor girl," she said, and then, regretting having said that: "It's just awful to be the person that everyone is feeling sorry for." When I tell Aniston this, she shoots me a withering look. "I agree with your mother," she says. "There's nothing worse. I hate it. It makes my skin crawl." Here she slips into the simpering tone of fake sympathy. "How's Jen doing? Please! Don't feel sorry for me. Don't make me your victim. I don't want it. I'm so tired of being part of this sick, twisted Bermuda Triangle. As long as it's scandalous, it's a story. And that's kind of what it's been. It's just stupid. It's ridiculous. There's nothing to do about it. All I can do is go on and live my life. But like I've said before, these are human beings. And it's not a show and it's not an article and it's not a headline. It's real and it sucks."
One of the things that have troubled Aniston most about this whole episode is that it has robbed her of her ability to just be herself. The quality she projects on the screen and in real life that has always mitigated the envy that her previous, seemingly perfect life—complete with wealth, fame, great hair, and the sexiest husband alive-inspired is her ability to remain, relatively speaking, just a regular gal. Despite the intense, bizarre amount of attention that has been focused on her over the years, she has always remained pretty much the same: plucky, frank, a little neurotic, and very, very funny. Largely because Friends ran for ten long years, millions of people projected all manner of desire and wish fulfillment onto her. She is pretty and sexy—but not scary or mean. Good company.
Though the media have always taken a particular interest in Aniston, her somewhat tortured relationship to the paparazzi really began as she and Brad Pitt were planning their wedding in the early part of 2000. Because she was one-half of the so-called Hollywood golden couple, any picture of her or, better yet, the two of them doing something couple-y seemed to hold endless fascination for the public. By the time Friends was nearing its end, just as Aniston and Pitt had moved into what amounted to a castle, a French Normandy mansion in Beverly Hills, the media interest in her was stoked again when the couple began to talk publicly of wanting to start a family. There was constant speculation about whether Aniston was pregnant, even as she was embarking on a movie career that promised to breathe new life into the roman tic comedy. Again, any photographic proof of her existence, no matter how mundane, held strange value.
But as soon as the rumors started piling up in late 2004 about Brad and Angelina having an affair during the filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the media's and the public's in interest in Aniston morphed into something entirely different, and ultimately suffocating for Aniston. By the time she and Pitt announced their separation in January 2005 and then filed for divorce two months later, the die was cast: Aniston would be forced to play the part of wronged woman, the heartbroken girl crying in her Malibu hideaway, as Brad and Angelina flew around the world to troubled hot spots, saving the children or respectfully listening to world leaders. When Aniston famously said last August that "there's a sensitivity chip that's missing" after a 60-page spread of Brad and Angelina ran in W depicting them as a married couple with a brood of children, it only served to ratchet up the public sympathy for her as the most humiliated woman in America.
Only once before in my 20 years as a magazine journalist have I ever received so many phone calls about the breakup of a famous couple: Donald and Ivana Trump. I had written a lengthy profile of Ivana for Spy magazine, and when her marriage hit the skids because Donald was caught cheating with Marla Maples, my phone rang off the hook. It was as if every television producer of every crappy TV show had that copy of Spy tucked in a desk drawer. When the news broke, they all needed someone to fill up airtime, and I was just young and stupid enough to think it was a good idea to go on TV and pontificate about the couple's demise.
When Aniston and Pitt split up, a very similar thing happened. This time, I couldn't get off the phone fast enough. But something else peculiar happened in this instance, something that did not with Donald and Ivana. Nearly all of my friends, family members, people at parties, everywhere I went, everybody wanted to talk to me about Jennifer and Brad and Angelina. Otherwise thoughtful, intelligent people, folks who would never normally gossip about celebrities, had all suddenly turned into Jann Carl from Entertainment Tonight.
Not surprisingly, Aniston is nonplussed when I bring this up. But in her attempt to figure it out, she does not exempt herself from her indictment of the American public. "This is what I think the problem is: We have such an obsession with reality TV. That's the majority of television. What happened to a great half-hour sitcom? It's all Dancing with the Stars! Knitting with the Stars! Building a Home with the Stars! Living in the Homes of the Stars! And then ripping people to shreds. Humiliation. Degradation. What is going on? It's so much instant gratification, and we want it real. It's bizarre. I don't watch TV anymore. Nothing. I have no interest in that Idol ****." She takes a deep breath and then acknowledges that her personal life has become just one more distracting reality show. "Unfortunately," she says, "the world is in such a state with this war and everything else, and it's easier to go and look at the triteness of a celebrity breakup. It's like, Ahhh. relief. It's an escape, like a daytime soap opera."
One of the unintended effects of all the media scrutiny-and Aniston's heart-wrenching interview in Vanity Fair, about which she says she has no regrets-was that it made Aniston seem as if she were wallowing in self-pity. Meanwhile, Brad and Angelina began to seem faintly ridiculous as photograhs were published of the couple sitting on a couch with Pervez Musharrag, the president of Pakistan. This aspect of the whole sordid affair comes up accidentally at one point during our lunch. Just as Aniston is telling me that she was a little worried about doing this interview because "there's nothing left to talk about and I'm sick of everything about myself," an older woman approaches our table. She has a Zsa Zsa Gabor accent. "Excuse me, Jennifer?" she says while walking toward us, still several feet from the table.
"Hiii," Aniston says, sounding both friendly and suspicious. The woman explains that the two were "supposed to meet" regarding Aniston's becoming the chairperson of an organization to do with abused and fostered children. "Your PR people were going to set up a meeting because they said you were interested in being the spokesperson or something."
"Oh?" says Aniston.
"You don't know anything about it," says the woman.
"No," says Aniston. "I'm mortified. That's terrible."
"Oh, it's OK," says the woman, and then she goes on to detail the work they do around the world, including one particular event held in Israel that brought together 5,000 Palestinian children and 5,000 Israeli children. "After that was in the newspaper," she says, "your PR people called and said you were interested. And then nobody ever followed up."
"Oh, great," says Aniston, who at this point clearly does not believe this story. The woman presses a card into Aniston's hand and says. "All right, well, thank you very much. Nice to meet you." As soon as the woman is out of earshot, Aniston turns to me and sends the entire awkward moment up:
"Well. You said you wanted to save the dying children?"
"Mmmm. No. I don't recall that."
"Yeah. They said so. They called and said you were interested and then you just decided never to call again. But the children are dead now, so it's OK. The window has passed. But it's good to meet you in person!"
Laughing, she puts her head in her hands and says, "Oh, God, It's just too much." She pauses for a moment, still shaking her head in amazement. When we finally stop laughing, I ask her how she feels about being asked to do those sorts of things.
"You know there's stuff I've done in my career...." She trails off and then says, "This is such a delicate subject." Here, for the first time in any conversation we've had, she starts to say something that sounds canned, a bit rehearsed. "I think it's an amazing thing for people to do, and we as actors have the platform to go out there and bring awareness and bring people together and make things happen. It's one of the great perks of what we do." Long pause as she realizes she's beginning to wade into Brad-and-Angelina territory. "And everybody participates in their own way, whether it's political or economic. I think we all do our part. I'm more ... I like to be ... I get really nervous about public anything when it's making a declaration. I should probably become more opinionated about certain things. But you know, I just don't like... I see a lot of.... See, this is where I don't, want to get too into this, because, you know, I want to be very delicate about... actors going out there and ... being... politicians. Or representatives of this or that. Which I find.... It's just not my thing. It's not what interests me. I commend anybody who goes out there and does it. And when the moment happens and it's authentic for me. I'm sure I will."
Before meeting me for lunch today. Aniston went to a yoga class with her friend Mandy Ingber. "After feeling sick and not really doing anything." she says, "going back into yoga, your muscles come back and you feel strong. Inner strength. Love it." She started doing yoga religiously in the past year or so because "it came out of a time of necessity, and it was very healing." After her yoga class, two women came to her house to give her an acupuncture treatment, also to aid in her recovery from the flu.
Aniston is not immune to what many think of as the flaky-spiritual aspect of life in California. For example, at one point she says to me, "They say there's certain times of the night or the morning when you're more open to receiving information-if there is information to be received—if you're one of those New Agers who believe that stuff, which I've been known to do. I love that stuff."
It is a bit of a contradiction because Aniston doesn't need the crutch of New Age foolishness. She is actually very smart and articulate about herself and her emotional life, perhaps in part because she saw the same shrink for many years. When I ask about her therapist, she says. "My shrink died." At first I think she's kidding, but then I quickly realize she's not. How terrible, I say. "Yeah, she actually died a year ago this past December." As I do the math, it slowly dawns on me that her therapist died the month before she and Pitt separated. "And here's the thing," she says. "I will cherish this woman forever. It was very sad because I thought she was a very smart, wise woman and unbelievably helpful to me. So it was devastating." But then she starts lo laugh. "When your shrink dies, you just go. 'Really? Is this some kind of cosmic joke?' I will never forget that moment. I was like. 'Wow, Well. OK. Let's put your money where your mouth is and walk through this.' Because that December, I knew that everything was sort of...coming. And then I was like. "Oh. right. You did retain it. It does work.' And you do build strength if you're really committed to the work." She pauses for a moment and then says, "Is it weird to say that my shrink died? One part of me is thinking that that's something I should keep to myself. But another part of me thinks it is, in an odd way..funny." She starts to laugh again. "Just as I arrived at the threshold of this grand door. So, are you in therapy? No, she died. It's very funny. I mean, this is the thing: Isn't it all funny? Thank God we can have a sense of humor. Good God!"
Though Aniston said at the beginning of our lunch that she did not want to talk too much about her personal life, it is obvious that she just can't help herself. She is so exquisitely calibrated for emotional openness that it would be a near impossibility for her to keep a lid on it. When I ask her point-blank about how she is doing re: the breakup, she says. "Here's the one thing I can say without divulging anything or going into the boring headlines of 2005: Ain't nothing broke! Life goes on. There's nothing to see here, folks. Just move along. The beauty of human resilience is that you do bounce back. And comparatively speaking to what people walk through, this is nothing. I haven't lost my home to some freak natural disaster. My son or my daughter is not in another country getting bombed. People just need to redirect their focus. It's like a little dark cloud that I'm just waiting to get out from under." Her leg is pumping up and down, shaking the banquette we're sitting on. "What more does one person have to do or say?"
She takes a deep breath and leans back. "But it's also a positive thing. There are really powerful things that happen out of this sort of loss. That's the stuff that life is made of. If you don't have appreciation for it—if you haven't sat in the dark depths of sadness and pain—you can't appreciate feeling good. It's like when you're really sick and all of a sudden you have that day when you wake up and finally feel great. You're like a kid in a candy store. I can't believe how great I feel! At the end of the day, it's just yourself, your own work, your own resilience, and your faith in yourself. I really believe that everything is meant to be. You can't ask, "Why is this happening to me?' It's happening to you! Life's tough. Get a helmet."
Unfortunately for Aniston. her personal life has, at least for now, eclipsed her films. There's a perception out there that her movie career is somehow in trouble, when in fact she has made one terrible film (Rumor Has It) and one not-so-great but, I think, underrated thriller (Derailed). There's not a single actor working in Hollywood today who hasn't made a couple of nonstarters nearly back-to-back (can you say The Stepford Wives followed by Bewitched?). When I ask her how she's feeling about her film career these days, she says, without any defensiveness, "I feel like I'm doing OK. I'm happy with where it is. Derailed didn't shine. It kind of ... derailed. Thrillers are tough. I'm glad I did it, but I don't need to do those kinds of movies. It's kind of like caviar. I don't need to have it again."
When I bring up Rumor Has It, she looks at me with an exaggerated pained expression and says. "Oh. we don't need to lalk about that, do we? The worst experience of my life. The worst experience; the worst film. It sounded like a great idea, an interesting backdrop for a romantic comedy. But it was never fleshed out, never fully realized. And for me, personally, I was going through a horrible time. I wasn't at my best as an actor. I was unmotivated by it." She pauses for a second. "Oh. why talk about it? We can let that little train go by."
Fortunately for Aniston, she was a busy girl last year and made two more films that have the potential to wipe the slate clean. First there is Friends with Money, a talky little movie directed by Nicole Holofcener that opened the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which debuts in theaters on April 7, stars a great cast of women—Frances McDormand, Joan Cusack, Catherine Keener, and, of course, Aniston—and is essentially about the marriages, love lives, and money issues of a circle of friends who live in Los Angeles as they reach middle age and deal with their own mortality.
Aniston plays a character who has quit her job as a teacher to become a cleaning lady. She is perpetually broke, a depressed pothead, and the only person in the story who is not in a relationship. Though her character here is not as finely drawn, there are echoes of her brilliant performance in The Good Girl, in which she played another depressed loser. Aniston, who is not afraid to strip away her comic shtick and cuteness, seems to have a special talent for playing forlorn women. In Friends with Money, all of the other characters are either upper-middle-class or just plain rich. "I think she related to her in some ways." says Holofcener. "I imagine that she has friends like the character that she plays. Jennifer is so wealthy. What friend could ever have as much money as she has, and what's that like? It must be really hard. And of course she knows what it's like to be depressed, even if her personality is generally cheerful."
The shoot, which lasted only three weeks, started just a few days after Aniston and Pitt announced their separation last January. As Aniston says, "This was not a vanity piece by any means. And it was a bizarre time when the vultures were descending. The paparazzi were getting pictures that were less than flattering to support the miserable person that they wanted to paint me as at the time." Holofcener remembers one day when they were filming at the Farmer's Market when Aniston "had to blow her nose or something, and the makeup woman said. 'Here's a tissue." and she said, 'No, if I hold a tissue they're going to take a picture of me and print that I'm crying.' And she wasn't crying. She was fine. She was completely composed and professional and seemed OK. She might not have been a barrel of monkeys, because of what was happening, but she still had a really good vibe." Says Aniston, "It was great. A great group of women. I've never worked with all women. It was like camp. Actor camp. I fell very supported."
Later this year, in June, Aniston's other film, The Break-Up, comes out. It is likely to be a much bigger movie than any of her previous three, partly because it returns her to comic form but also because there is the curiosity factor of watching the chemistry between her and Vince Vaughn, her costar and the man she started dating not long after the film finished shooting. Interestingly enough, the movie was Vaughn's idea, and he spent the better part of a year working on the script with two writers. Aniston, whom Vaughn had in mind all along, signed on to The Break-Up last February, just after she and Pitt... broke up.
The director, Peyton Reed (Bring It On, Down with Love), describes the film as "a comedy that we tried really hard to ground in reality, so that a lot of the arguments thiscouple has as they are breaking up are very real. Working opposite Vince. Jen gets to flex her comedic muscles, which are formidable, but she also gets to do a lot of dramatic work in the movie. She just knocked it out of the park."
During filming in Chicago last summer, Aniston's personal-life drama had reached a crescendo. "Had I not gone to the newsstand and seen the tabloids," says Reed. "I would never have known something of that magnitude was going on. She was able to come to work and dig in and just make it a joy everyday. Only Jen can speak about her process, but her performance in the movie, when it hits those notes of the pain at the end of a relationship, has an immediacy that I was just blown away by."
Aniston is genuinely thrilled with how the film turned out. "I love this movie." she says. "I have a good feeling about it. It's beautifully balanced and surprisingly emotional. I don't think anyone has really seen anything quite like it." When I ask Aniston about Vaughn, she says. "He's very funny. He's brilliantly funny. He's hilarious. He's unbelievably ferociously talented and has a work ethic that is inspiring. It was pure fun." I had been told by more than one person that the two have amazing comic chemistry together, and Aniston agrees. "It's great when you can have that thing where you can have a good volley with someone." When I push her a little further to talk about their relationship, she demurs. "He's a good friend," she says with a big smile. "First and foremost he's a really good, loyal friend. Fiercely loyal."
When I first met Aniston, she and Pitt were living together in a little house way up at the top of one of the Hollywood hills. It was a house that she bought years earlier, when she got that first Friends paycheck. I met her there one beautiful afternoon in May four years ago, and she was very obviously proud of the home and its conients—her things, her taste. At the time, she gamely showed me a framed black-and-white shot from her wedding day, which she referred to as their "Mrs. Robinson photograph" because it evoked the movie poster from The Graduate. As she gave me the tour, we went outside to look at the view from her small, grassy backyard and said. "It's teeny, teeny, tiny, but it's my favorite place in the world, up here. When the sun is setting. I have five little bunny rabbits that sit out on the lawn, and there are quail and hummingbirds. It's a really special spot." When I interviewed her again a year and a half later, the couple had moved into their mansion in Beverly Hills, and Aniston was pained about the idea of having to sell her beloved bungalow.
Just before we meet up at ihe Beverly Hills Hotel. I read somewhere that she and Vaughn were now living together-in a little house in the Hollywood hills. At one point during our lunch I ask, Did you never sell that house?
"Where we met?" she says.
Yes. I say.
"No. I'm living there now," she says. "I never sold it. I couldn't let it go."
You must be glad now. I say.
"Yeah!" she says, laughing. "Phew! Thank God for the sweet little things."
How are the bunny rabbits? I ask.
"Those ****ing rabbits," she says, laughing but not kidding. "They were cute at first. Look at the bunnies! And now there are 500 of them and you walk onto the grass and it's just crunch, crunch, crunch. There's rabbit **** everywhere. Those bunnies are the bane of my existence. I don't know what they do, how they have the strength to gnaw through the wire we put up to cover the holes. It was like a National Geographic out there: the quail, the bunnies, my dog, Norman, killing all the birds."
When I ask Aniston what her plans for the future are, she answers me in a way that makes me realize she cannot think too far ahead. "I'm going on a ski trip with some friends in a couple of weeks. And then I'm going to do a little traveling, not sure where. Then I come back, and I start promoting Friends with Money and The Break-Up. And then hopefully I will have a greater idea of what I want to do work-wise."
When I push her to talk about her bigger future she says flatly, "I'm not going to talk about grand dreams, because those are mine, and if I don't fulfill them then I'll be really disappointed that I didn't and that I stood on a soapbox and was like, I'm going to direct! And I'm going to produce! That's why I don't make New Year's resolutions. I have a lot that I want to do, though." She pauses and then levels me with a look. "I do more than shop." More seriously, she says, "I have to find a house. I have find a home. I'm really looking forward to whatever that is. If I'm not settled, if I don't have my home base, I can't ground myself. It's a good springboard, having a solid home. It's one of my most important things—more important even than doing another movie is creating my home. Whatever that means. Whether it's my family, my friends. Home."
Aniston has recently been making noises about the fact that she might have to get the hell out of Dodge—leave L.A.—if she is ever to rise above the circus that her life has become. "There is no Raid that has been invented to get rid of the paparazzi," she says. "But I think it's going to hit a peak, and then it will start to equalize. It just has to. Isn't that sort of the laws of something? Physics? What goes up must come down?" But even as she says this, she knows that it might be wise for her to move away for a while. "I want to get out of here because I walk around and I feel like I should just have the word CHUM written on my shirt. There's something weird about the energy of this town. Don't you just feel a little film of some kind that coats everything?"
Where would you go. I say?
"I don't know," she says and then grows quiet. "I don't know. But it also makes sense for me to leave. I can. I don't have a day job. I don't have Friends to go to. So I could live outside Los Angeles and fly in for work. That's the freedom of what we do. It's kind of exciting. There's a menu of options."
As our lunch comes to an end, our waitress, whom Aniston knows from coming here and whom she seems to delight in, swings by to tell us that someone paid for our meal. Some two-bit talk-show host whom Aniston was interviewed by once years ago on a press junket. "Is he still here?" says Aniston. No, says the waitress, he left about a half-hour ago. "How odd," says Aniston. "It's very odd. I don't know how to take that. I don't know what to do with something like that. I don't know him."
Maybe you do need to leave L.A., I say.
"When you have virtual strangers buying your lunch," she says, "yes, I think it's time."
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shut up you ungrateful pathetic bitch...how much of a foundation cake they slapped to your face and how many times they airbrush your fugly chin...go go away and disappear to the bermuda triangle you loser....pathetic bitch....should bitch slap you around to reconfigure your fugly chin.....pheewww!@!
Wow she's beautiful!
She;'s gotten so thin, but gorgeous all the same. Love the red dress!
I'm pretty sure this is MEN'S VOGUE.
You dorks must be reeeeally unattractive because if that's your standard for beauty it is a desperate one. I have never seen Maniston look more manly. This is hysterically fugly!!
her fugly chin is so annoying....pretty??? my ass is pretty...shoot if i put foundation so thick like the chin has on my pretty ass....my ass is much more gorgeous than the fugly face of the chinnifer.....whiny whyneh ..."dont make me a victim....it makes my skin crawls…i’m so tired of being part of this sick, twisted bermuda triangle”…what a pathetic ungratefful bitch…”don’t feel sorry for me” what an addled buffoon…why don’t you just shut up eff….just go away and disappear to bermuda triangle you pathetic bitch….!!!
My God! what the matter with you!?you know so much hatred can cause a heart attack! be careful.. take your medicine.. tsk tsk..
Did you guys check out the french manicure on her toes! Oh my God that's funny. Is that concealer or spackle? Did you check out the bump in her dress? Maybe she's really a man after all! Now I get the Maniston thing everyones been saying. That would help explain the giant chin too!
#6 sad...don't feel sad....feel bad coz that ungrateful pathetic bitch is a pothead....and for medicine....my medicine is to bitch slap this pathetic bitch fugly chin!!
Are Hollywood running out of beautiful babes ? !! I can't stand her her face in evry mag.
WHY TURN YOUR FACE AWAY FROM CAMERA IN ALL THE SHOOT ? DON'T TELL ME YOU ARE SHY ? OH I GET IT .. YOU LOOK BEST IN THAT ANGLE WITHOUT THE CHIN
at least she finally said something to the effect of I adimre people who do humanitarian work. It's not my thing though. She could have really made us think better of her though and said " I shouldn't have made fun of people for doing humanitarian work, that was wrong of me and I apologize. I was emotional about him moving on so quickly and said things I shouldn't have." That is what she needs to say to make me think any better of her. You know a real apology. Not some half ass remark, but the real deal.
Oh, Buddha, the spin job of the aftermath of the pity party continues into 2006. I haven't read the article yet so I'll reserve comments aout it for now. BTW, thanks Jared for providing an easy reading and access format to the article.
In the meantime, folks check out Pity Party part infinitum with an article in Good Housekeeping, March 2006, where she sends her sentinels to once again do a snow job on the lemmings. Uggh, it's barely 3 months into the year and she's already racking up more magazine covers than Oprah on O magazine. Yet again, we get the cover headline of "Her big risk, her baby plans, and why she still believes in happily ever after."
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Her friends are now bending over backwards to paint Jennifer as the well-recovered survivor (to what? divorce?) to contrast to the wounded Jennifer of the opening act aka Vanity Fair (where's Kristin Hahn hiding now?).
Take note of Jennifer's main spinmeister, her makeup artist-friend:
Levin: "I think no matter who you are, whether you go through something like a divorce, it's a shock on your heart, and it tends to show on your face. And yet Jennifer hardly needed any makeup to look amazing."
Hell, are we looking at the same face that's she's been showing at the Sundance festival and lately?
"I do some of her skin treatments, at her house, and she enjoys them. But she doesn't need a lot--her skin is lovely--and because we're friends, it's also a social event." "Jennifer has an amazing ability to see the bright side of things,"
"She has a very healthy, positive outlook on life, and it really does show. I think the beauty secret for a lot of women is happiness--it shows on your face."
Okay, it must be the school of thought that if you say it enough, the masses will believe it from fatigue of repetition.
These days, Jennifer could probably write a book on how to handle life's rough patches with class.
How much back-scratching did Steven do for that brown-nosing?
Her smile looks strained on the new cover. She looked happier on the older cover.
Okay, it must be the school of thought that if you say it enough, the masses will believe it from fatigue of repetition.
Those words in italics in my #12 post were accidentally italicized; they are my own and not from the article.
As a refresher, I will post up the Vanity Fair article in my following post.
VANITY FAIR, September 2004
The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston
By LESLIE BENNETTS
When Jennifer Aniston opens the door to the Malibu bungalow she's been holed up in lately, she gives me a radiant smile and an effusive hello.
Then she bursts into tears.
We have scarcely sat down in the living room, a serene little haven simply furnished with cushy white sofas and white flowers and white candles, when her face crumples. She is instantly aghast.
"I haven't been feeling emotional lately, really I haven't," she wails, fluttering her hands like Rachel Green in distress, except that this time it isn't funny.
Other than the 24-hour security detail guarding her safety, Aniston is all alone in the modest rental where she has camped out while dealing with the end of her marriage to Brad Pitt—and its devastating aftermath, which has been far worse than the actual split. The last few months have brought an endless nightmare of hurtful headlines about her soon-to-be-ex-husband, along with blatantly fraudulent stories about herself, in the tabloids and supermarket gossip magazines. Pursued around the clock by the rabid paparazzi she refers to as "ratzies," she is ambushed even on her own deck by photographers who lurk on the beach outside her door, spying on her every move.
As she squeezes her eyes shut in an effort to stop crying, the scene provides a painful contrast with the last time we met. Little more than a year ago, I interviewed Pitt at the Beverly Hills mansion that he and Aniston had just spent two years renovating. A testament to both his passion for architecture and the couple's hopeful vision of their shared future, the beautiful old house awaited only a baby in a bassinet to complete a picture-perfect existence.
When I left, they both walked me out to my car. Their home, its windows lit and welcoming, glowed in the twilight. As we said our good-byes, Pitt and Aniston leaned together in the driveway, arms twined around each other. Her head rested trustingly on his buff chest, still pumped up from his rigorous training to play the warrior Achilles in Troy.
They seemed the most fortunate couple imaginable—two beautiful superstars who had hit the jackpot, earning not only fame and riches but also an enduring love. Their fans had long been captivated by the romance of America's Sweetheart and the Sexiest Man in the World, and now they were ready to begin a thrilling new chapter. Aniston's 10-year run on Friends was ending, and she and Pitt had vowed to start a family when her stupendously successful television series was finished.
Pitt's final words to me reinforced the impression of connubial bliss: "I'm happier than I've ever been." But the ensuing months brought an onslaught of rumors that he had gotten involved with Angelina Jolie while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Instead of the joyful announcement many had anticipated from the Pitts, there was only silence. The New Year began with photographs of the beautiful couple strolling hand in hand along the beach on Anguilla, looking relaxed and happy. Immediately the buzz shifted into rhapsodic re-appraisals of the state of their union.
And then came the oh-so-civilized announcement, on January 7, that Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were separating—that their parting was "the result of much thoughtful consideration," that it was not caused by "any of the speculation reported by the tabloid media," and that they would remain "committed and caring friends with great love and admiration for one another."
If Pitt had kept a low profile in the months to come, that might even have turned out to be true. Instead, the ominous drumroll of gossip began to crescendo as he and Jolie rendezvoused in exotic locales, still denying that they were an item. With the paparazzi snapping away, Pitt stepped into what looked suspiciously like a paternal role with Jolie's adopted Cambodian son, Maddox.
"It was extremely hurtful to Jen that he was seen with another woman so quickly after they were separated," says Andrea Bendewald, an actress who has been one of Aniston's closest friends since they were teenagers.
Instead of being reviled as The Other Woman, Jolie posed for pictures on an energetic round of appearances as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations—and then trumped even that public-relations bonanza by adopting another orphan, an African girl whose parents had died of AIDS. In the blink of an eye, the twice-divorced Jolie—previously known as a tattooed vixen with a taste for bisexuality, heroin, brotherly incest, mental institutions, and wearing her husbands' blood—had morphed into a globe-trotting humanitarian who seemed to be channeling Audrey Hepburn.
For the 36-year-old Aniston, who had expected to spend the past year being pregnant, the pain of watching this spectacle unfold was compounded by vicious rumors about herself. As misogynist as they were false, sensationalistic stories claimed the real reason the marriage ended was that Aniston refused to have Pitt's baby because she was so ambitious she cared only about her career.
Even now, that sexist slur makes her face darken. "A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children," she says. "That really pissed me off. I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will! The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all."
Aniston's intimates note acidly that Pitt could have done more to refute the mean-spirited rumor that his wife wouldn't bear his child, which reinforced the impression that he had good cause to leave her for Earth Mother Jolie. To some, this looks like sheer hypocrisy.
"When Brad and Jen were in the marriage, having a baby was not his priority—ever," says one mutual friend. "It was an abstract desire for him, whereas for Jen it was much more immediate. So is there a part of Brad that's diabolical? Did he think, I need to get out of this marriage, but I want to come out smelling like a rose, so I'm going to let Jen be cast as the ultra-feminist and I'm going to get cast as the poor husband who couldn't get a baby and so had to move on?"
As the image wars raged in the gossip media, a heartbroken Aniston retreated to her Malibu hideaway to lick her wounds in private, accompanied only by her elderly corgi-terrier mix, Norman, who spends most of his time snoring on his dog bed. Public sympathy seemed to be on her side; the Hollywood boutique Kitson reported that its "Team Aniston" T-shirts were outselling "Team Jolie" T-shirts by a margin of 25 to 1. But that was cold comfort as Aniston was assaulted by one provocation after another.
When the Pitts split up, Brad insisted he hadn't slept with Jolie, and Aniston accepted his denial. "She wasn't naïve," says Kristin Hahn, an executive at the Pitts' production company, Plan B. "She's not suggesting she didn't know there was an enchantment, and a friendship. But Brad was saying, 'This is not about another woman.'"
The moment he and Aniston separated, however, he re-emerged in what looked like a full-blown affair with Jolie. Struggling to accept a separation she never wanted, Aniston found that the "facts" she had been told kept shifting like quicksand beneath her feet. When I ask about that gracious, no-one-is-to-blame announcement of their separation, she takes a deep breath. "What we said was true—"
As I raise my eyebrows, she pauses for a moment, and then adds carefully, "—as far as I knew. We wrote it together, very consciously, and felt very good about it. We exited this relationship as beautifully as we entered it."
All Aniston wanted then was to figure out what happened; how did the happy life they'd planned drift so far off course? But everything changed on April 29, when photographs broke of Brad and Angelina frolicking on the beach with Maddox at a romantic resort in Africa. "The world was shocked, and I was shocked," she says, still bending over backward not to excoriate her ex.
But to say that this news was like pouring salt in the wound would understate its impact considerably; how about pouring molten lava into the hole where somebody ripped your heart out?
And then things got worse.
The skies over Los Angeles are uncharacteristically gray today, and the . shimmers with an opalescent sheen. Although the weather is gloomy, the ocean is calm; waves lap gently at the shoreline, making a soft shushing sound that Aniston has found very soothing lately.
"That's quite a backyard, in my opinion," she says as we stand on her deck, watching the hypnotic rhythm of the waves. "Just being able to go to the water's edge and scream—"
She grins. "Not too loudly. You don't want people to think that you're crazy. But it can be very cathartic."
She is wearing a white tank top and white drawstring linen pants, with a vivid lavender cashmere cardiwrap around her to ward off the unseasonable chill. Formidably toned by yoga, her body is in superb shape, but despite her tanned skin and megawatt smile she looks fragile and wan.
She remains resolutely upbeat nonetheless, casting her current situation in the most positive light possible. "It's beautiful here; I love it," she says. "I've always wanted to have a little Malibu beach house, and it feels good. I'm enjoying simplifying things."
Although the bungalow was dark and depressing when she first saw it, a quickie makeover has transformed it into a cozy sanctuary that's far more representative of Aniston's personal taste than the showplace she and Pitt shared, where the décor seemed all hard edges and unforgiving materials. "Brad and I used to joke that every piece of furniture was either a museum piece or just uncomfortable," Aniston says. "He definitely had his sense of style, and I definitely have my sense of style, and sometimes they clashed. I wasn't so much into modern."
I mention Nicole Kidman's quip after splitting up with Tom Cruise, when she was asked what she looked forward to in her new life without the diminutive husband who had abruptly ended their marriage. "Wearing high heels again," Kidman retorted.
So I ask Aniston—who filed for divorce on March 25 and expects it to become final this fall—what she's enjoying about being on her own. "I can have a comfortable couch," she says with a wry smile.
In the tabloids and celebrity gossip magazines, the soap-opera version of her life continues to hurtle along like a runaway express train, rushing Aniston through major life stages with ludicrous speed: Jen Is Devastated! Jen Is Furious! Jen Gets Revenge! Jen Has a New Man! Jen Is Over Brad! Most of the stories are wrong. (No, Oprah didn't try to get Brad and Jen back together; no, Jen is not romantically involved with Vince Vaughn, her co-star in The Break-Up, a comedy about a separating couple who continue to live together, which they shot in Chicago over the summer.)
Other reports are just idiotically simpleminded, breathlessly advancing a plot that bears little resemblance to the long, complex, painful experience of getting over a divorce. While the tabloids insist on dividing Aniston's emotions into neat, distinct chapters, the reality is that pain and denial and anger and resignation all blur together, sometimes at the same moment—and the lengthy process of mourning is nowhere near over.
"There are many stages of grief," she says. "It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way—cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it."
Aniston is struggling to find a deeper meaning in the debacle. "I have to think there's some reason I have called this into my life," she says. "I have to believe that—otherwise it's just cruel."
Her friends are filled with admiration for the way she's handled the whole mess. "This woman is basically having a root canal without anesthesia, but she's really trying not to numb the pain or shove it under the rug," says Hahn. "She's grown so much, and she continues to grow on a daily basis, because every time you think, 'Well, I've dealt with this,' there's another hurdle to get over. It's a bit Job-like at the moment."
Aniston's response has been to retreat into her cocoon, "in an effort to take care of myself and my heart," she says. "I feel like I'm nesting. I love being home. I have friends that come over. My girlfriends I've had for 20 years. When things happen, the tribe gathers around and lifts you up. I've had lonely moments, sure, but I'm also enjoying being alone. There's no question it takes getting used to; I'm a partnership person, and if something happens your instinct is to share it—but you're no longer part of a couple. I definitely miss that. It's sort of like Bambi—like you're trying to learn how to walk. You're a little awkward; you stumble a little bit. The things you would do with your partner, you don't do. It's uncharted territory, but I think it's good for me to be a solo person right now. You're forced to re-discover yourself and take it to another level. If you can find a way to see the glass half full, these are the moments when you learn the most. I've had to re-introduce myself to myself in a way that's different."
She doesn't downplay the difficulties. "Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well," she says. "I've got an unbelievable support team, and I'm a tough cookie.… I believe in therapy; I think it's an incredible tool in educating the self on the self. I feel very strong. I'm really proud of how I've conducted myself."
A crucial part of Aniston's strategy has been to ignore the putrid stew of rumor, speculation, and outright falsehood in the tabloid media. "It's been very important for me not to read anything, not to see anything," she says. "It's been my saving grace. That stuff is just toxic for me right now. I probably avoided a lot of suffering by not engaging in it, not reading, not watching."
She gestures toward Norman, who has roused himself for a moment to check on his mistress's whereabouts. "It's like those dog cones," she says, encircling her neck as if putting on one of the plastic cones prescribed by vets to prevent dogs from scratching their ears. "I have my imaginary dog cone on, so I don't see anything. It just allows for a much more peaceful life."
Nevertheless, as Pitt publicly flaunted the instant family he had created with Jolie, the tableaux of their newfound togetherness were humiliating. "I would be a robot if I said I didn't feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment," Aniston acknowledges.
But she tries to keep the lurid details to herself. "She is grieving, but she's taken the high road," says Bendewald. "She's mourning the death of a marriage, and she's done it very privately. She can have her moments of rage, but she doesn't want to out him, and that keeps her heart clear. She's not bad-mouthing him. She doesn't want to make him the villain and her the victim."
Indeed, Aniston vehemently rejects the interpretation that she was left for another woman. "I don't feel like a victim," she says. "I've worked with this therapist for a long time, and her major focus is that you get one day of being a victim—and that's it. Then we take responsibility for our own input. To live in a victim place is pointing a finger at someone else, as if you have no control. Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. She'd say, 'Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours, and that's what we're going to focus on.' You can only clean up your side of the street."
These days, one index of recovery is the fact that Aniston's sardonic humor is resurfacing. When I tell her that my 13-year-old son is a big fan of hers, she doesn't miss a beat. "Is he single?" she asks, deadpan.
She'll toss off a crack about Pitt's startling transformation into a punky bleached blond. "Billy Idol called—he wants his look back," she murmurs with a sly smile.
By now she can even talk about those gut-wrenching photos of Jolie and Pitt in Kenya with mordant resignation rather than tears. "I can't say it was one of the highlights of my year," she says. "Who would deal with that and say, 'Isn't that sweet! That looks like fun!'? But S*** happens. You joke and say, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.'"
She sighs. "I feel like I've earned a superpower shield," she says. Then, afraid of sounding grandiose, she adds, "I'm not comparing my suffering to other people's suffering. Everybody has their own."
Aniston's friends were particularly horrified by W magazine's 60-page photo spread featuring Pitt and Jolie as an early-1960s-style married couple with a brood of miniature blond Brads. "You want to shake the S*** out of him and say, 'Your timing sucks!'" says one. "He's made some choices that have been tremendously insensitive."
The W feature, which was entitled "Domestic Bliss," couldn't be blamed on the paparazzi; not only did Pitt conceptualize it, but he retained the international rights, so he actually profited from it. Aniston's eyes widen in surprise when I mention that last fact, and she grimaces. "I didn't know that," she says. But she refuses to indulge herself in an angry reaction. "Is it odd timing? Yeah. But it's not my life," she says. "He makes his choices. He can do—whatever. We're divorced, and you can see why."
She shakes her head in exasperation. "I can also imagine Brad having absolutely no clue why people would be appalled by it," she adds. "Brad is not mean-spirited; he would never intentionally try to rub something in my face. In hindsight, I can see him going, 'Oh—I can see that that was inconsiderate.' But I know Brad. Brad would say, 'That's art!'"
She rolls her eyes, pretending to screw something into her forehead. "There's a sensitivity chip that's missing," she says.
Aniston's friends are amazed at her willingness to give Pitt the benefit of the doubt, but they basically agree with her assessment. "I don't think he was trying to hurt Jen," says Courteney Cox, Aniston's dear friend and former co-star on Friends. "I don't think that Brad is malicious, or a liar. The W thing was his idea, but I don't think he thought that one through, about what it would look like to anyone else."
Although Aniston remains determined not to lash out, she sometimes questions her own restraint. "Why am I protecting him?" she exclaimed to one friend, only to continue with what she sees as the dignified course of action.
"I'm not interested in taking public potshots," she explains. "It's not my concern anymore. What happened to him after the separation—it's his life now. I've made a conscious effort not to add to the toxicity of this situation. I haven't retaliated. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't have a halo that I'm polishing here; everyone has their personal thoughts. But I would much rather everyone move on. I am not defined by this relationship. I am not defined by the part they're making me play in the triangle. It's maddening to me. But I had a mom who was very angry about her divorce, and made shots, and I don't want to play that out. If people are frustrated that I don't want to do that, I'm sorry. I'm figuring this out as I go along. This is my first time at this particular picnic."
As befits a storybook tale, the Pitts' marriage was the first for both of them, and some of Aniston's fondest memories are from the time they shared before the world discovered their romance. "We had so much fun falling in love," she says wistfully. "It was so private; we kept it to ourselves for so long. It was something we were really proud of."
But after the relationship became public, it was always difficult to reconcile their mythic image with the quotidian reality of their private life, which was more likely to involve watching television, ordering takeout, and having close friends over than swanning around on red carpets.
"We were put on a pedestal, but we were just a couple like anybody else," Aniston says. "When we were home, we'd watch the shows we loved, and one time there was this program called It's Good to Be Brad and Jen. It was all about us going to Scotland and Greece and having our matching S.U.V.'s, and it wasn't my life—I'd never even been to some of these places, but even I got sucked in. We're sitting there saying, 'Yeah, boy, it sure must be good to be Brad and Jen!' So is it our responsibility to demystify this, to say, 'This is not what it's like—it's not that fabulous, not that great'? There's no doubt our life is fortunate, but … "
But even golden couples struggle with the formidable challenges of marriage. "It's like the ebb and flow of every relationship," Aniston says. "It's hard; it gets easy; it gets fun again. What's hard to sustain is some ideal that it's perfect. That's ridiculous. What's fantastic about marriage is getting through those ebbs and flows with the same person, and looking across the room and saying, 'I'm still here. And I still love you.' You re-meet, reconnect. You have marriages within marriages within marriages. That's what I love about marriage. That's what I want in marriage. It's unfortunate, but we live in a very disposable society. Those moments where it looks like 'Uh-oh, this isn't working!'—those are the most important, transformative moments. Most couples draw up divorce papers when they're missing out on an amazing moment of deepening and enlightenment and connection."
She sighs heavily and turns away to light a Merit cigarette. "That's not Brad's view of it," she says, glum again. "We believe in different things, I guess. You can't force a relationship, even if it's your view of how you would like it to be conducted. Obviously two people leave a relationship because there's a different thought pattern happening. My goal is to try and achieve a very deep, committed relationship. That's what I'm interested in, but it's someone's prerogative to be or not to be in or out of a relationship."
"I think Jen wanted to work it out, and I don't think he wanted to work it out," Andrea Bendewald observes. "I don't think he knew what he wanted."
Nevertheless, Aniston has only kind words about her marriage. "I still feel so lucky to have experienced it. I wouldn't know what I know now if I hadn't been married to Brad," she says. "I love Brad; I really love him. I will love him for the rest of my life. He's a fantastic man. I don't regret any of it, and I'm not going to beat myself up about it. We spent seven very intense years together; we taught each other a lot—about healing, and about fun. We helped each other through a lot, and I really value that. It was a beautiful, complicated relationship. The sad thing, for me, is the way it's been reduced to a Hollywood cliché—or maybe it's just a human cliché. I have a lot of compassion for everyone going through this."
As for what went wrong, Aniston rejects any simplistic explanation. "It's just complicated," she says. "Relationships are complicated, whether they're friendships or business relationships or parent relationships. I don't think anybody in a marriage gets to a point where they feel like 'We've got it!' You're two people continually evolving, and there will be times when those changes clash. There are all these levels of growth—and when you stop growing together, that's when the problems happen."
Friends say that it was always difficult for Aniston and Pitt to maintain the intimacy they craved while juggling their demanding work schedules, which often required long separations. Those tensions notwithstanding, Aniston believed her marriage was the real thing. "We both did," she says.
So what happened? "I think—it changed," she says haltingly. "We both changed."
She sighs again. "You do the best you can, and I think we did. We did the best we could."
Both of them? She looks me straight in the eye. "Both parties," she says.
But nagging questions remain about Pitt's conduct during the months leading up to their separation. "She was committed to the marriage," says Bendewald. "He wanted to figure out who he was and what he wanted, but he seemed to want to do it without being married. She wanted him to figure out what he wanted and stay married. He didn't think he could do that, so at that point she was like, 'O.K., go figure it out.'"
Throughout that period, Pitt insisted that his relationship with Jolie was not the cause of his marital discontent, but his actions since the separation have suggested otherwise.
"I just don't know what happened," Aniston admits. "There's a lot I don't understand, a lot I don't know, and probably never will know, really. So I choose to take away with me as much integrity and dignity and respect for what that relationship was as I can. I feel as if I'm trying to scrounge around and pick up the pieces in the midst of this media circus."
Does she buy Brad's claim that he didn't cheat on her before they separated? "I choose to believe my husband," Aniston says. "At this point, I wouldn't be surprised by anything, but I would much rather choose to believe him."
Their friends are still trying to parse what happened with Jolie. "I don't think he started an affair physically, but I think he was attracted to her," says Courteney Cox, who vacationed with her husband, David Arquette, and the Pitts on Anguilla just before they announced their separation. "There was a connection, and he was honest about that with Jen. Most of the time, when people are attracted to other people, they don't tell. At least he was honest about it. It was an attraction that he fought for a period of time."
He may have been fighting it, but Pitt virtually checked out of his marriage as soon as he began working with Jolie, according to Aniston's intimates. "He was gone," says one.
Aniston has met Jolie only once, when she took a passing opportunity to say hello. "It was on the lot of Friends—I pulled over and introduced myself," Aniston recalls. "I said, 'Brad is so excited about working with you. I hope you guys have a really good time.'"
But he soon became emotionally unavailable to his wife, at a time when she needed him desperately. Pitt's withdrawal coincided with the end of Friends, which Aniston experienced as a huge loss. "That was really painful. It was a family, and I don't do great with families splitting up," says Aniston, who was deeply wounded by her parents' bitter divorce, which happened when she was 9. "It was hard to have such a wonderful constant in your life, a place to go every day, and then all of a sudden it's not there."
When she reached out for her husband's support, she didn't get it. "He just wasn't there for me," she says.
To the amazement of Aniston's friends, Pitt didn't even show up for the final taping of Friends.
"He was working," she says, still defending him, even though movie stars have been known to request changes in a shooting schedule to accommodate events that are important to them.
Although she isn't talking to Pitt these days, Aniston remains in regular contact with his mother, whom she loves dearly, and she doesn't rule out a better relationship with Brad in the future. "I really do hope that someday we can be friends again," she says.
She certainly doesn't regret her four-and-a-half-year marriage—not even the million-dollar wedding with 50,000 flowers, a 40-member gospel choir, a Greek bouzouki band, and fireworks exploding over the .. ("It was fantastic!" she says.) But she does have other regrets.
"There's a lot I would probably do differently," she says. "I'd take more vacations—getting away from work, enjoying each other in different environments. But there was always something preventing it; either he was working or I was."
She made more profound mistakes as well. "I wouldn't give over so much of myself, which I did at times," she admits. "It was that thing about being a nurturer; I love taking care of people, and I definitely put his needs before mine sometimes. It's seamless; somewhere along the way, you sort of lose yourself. You just don't know when it happens. It's such an insidious thing, you don't really see where it started—and where you ended. There's no one to blame but yourself. I've always been that way in relationships, even with my mom. It's not the healthiest. I feel like I've broken the pattern now. I'll never let myself down like that again. I feel like my sense of self is being strengthened because of it."
Aniston's unhappy family history colored her experience of marriage from the outset. "I come from a fighting family, and I had a tough time arguing," she says. "Fighting scared me. I wouldn't speak up for myself. That's something I've learned; I will always speak my mind."
In recent months, the process of healing from the breakup with Brad has also created a new openness to healing relations with her mother. Their estrangement began nearly a decade ago, when Nancy Aniston gossiped about Jennifer on a television show, and worsened when she tried to cash in on Jennifer's fame by writing an appalling book called From Mother and Daughter to Friends. Jennifer severed all contact, but she is now re-assessing their relationship.
"We've exchanged messages," she says. "Our doors are open. We're taking baby steps. It's a good thing."
Although Aniston incurred criticism for distancing herself from her mother, who did not attend her wedding, she offers no apologies. "I feel pretty good about the choices I've made. The choice of not speaking to Mom for a while—that's ours. Nobody else has to understand it. The same thing with Brad and myself," she says. "I wouldn't change my childhood, I wouldn't change my heartaches, I wouldn't change my successes. I wouldn't change any of it, because I really love who I am, and am continuing to become.
"Besides, it's all in the past," she adds. "This doesn't kill you. You move on. You can't let the devastation of a divorce take over and win—let it make you this bitter, closed-off, angry, skeptical person. Then you're just falling victim to it. You don't want to shut your heart down. You don't want to feel that when a marriage ends, your life is over. You can survive anything. Compared to what other people are surviving out there in the world, this is not so bad, in the grand scheme of things. Human endurance is unbelievable. Think of what mothers of soldiers have to rise above! Everything's relative."
She looks down at her firm, fit body. "Nothing's broke," she says.
Catching the quizzical look on my face, she concedes, "Maybe a little bruised."
A few weeks later, on a stiflingly hot day in Chicago, Aniston and I are sitting in her hotel suite looking out on Lake Michigan, which is studded with little white boats. I've just told her about the gossip magazine that says she's registered here as "Mrs. Smith." The report claims Aniston is taking perverse pleasure in making hotel staffers address her as Mrs. Smith, even though they know perfectly well who she is.
The only problem with this amusing tidbit is that it's not true. "I wish I'd thought of it," says Aniston, who is registered under an entirely different, although equally humorous, name.
Despite her vow of abstinence, she succumbed to a celebrity magazine the other evening—and immediately regretted it. "I feel like I've fallen off the wagon," she moans. Unfortunately, the first publication she picked up featured an insult from Kimberly Stewart, Rod's party-girl daughter. "She said I'm homely," Aniston says. "It literally ruined my night. I got my feelings very hurt, actually. That was my instant Karma."
She has always fretted about her appearance, although that is often hard for others to believe. Posing for her Vanity Fair cover shoot, Aniston was equally fetching in French-dance-hall-girl black stockings and in a half-open oversize shirt that evoked every man's favorite just-rolled-out-of-bed look. With her tousled hair, cobalt-blue eyes, and dazzling smile, she seemed the ultimate adorable sexpot. Far from pining away in seclusion, she appeared to be sending a far more spirited message—like "Eat your heart out, Brad!"
But Aniston has never been able to reconcile the glamorous Jen on page or screen with the self-doubting woman she sees in the mirror, and the current tabloid coverage has exacerbated that gap. "It's literally two different people—the real me, and the 'Jen' they write about, 'fighting back,' 'getting revenge'—everything I couldn't be farther from wanting to do," she says. "So I'm back on the wagon."
When she arrived in Chicago to film The Break-Up, the gossip media, frantic for a new development, immediately plunged her into a torrid romance with her co-star, Vince Vaughn. This affair apparently does not exist.
"I adore Vince Vaughn, but I'm not going out with Vince Vaughn," she says. "I barely know the guy. We've exchanged a wine-and-cheese basket for the start of the movie, and we've gone out to dinner with the director and other people. We've got to get to know each other."
But is Aniston seeing him—or anyone else? "Nobody," she says firmly. "I like a lot of people, but I am sooo not 'in like' with anybody. I am really enjoying being by myself. I'm excited that I know there's somebody out there for me, but I am absolutely in no rush. This is all very fresh, very new. This was a seven-year relationship that was very dear, very complicated, very special. I need to honor it."
Aside from her initial flurry of tears, Aniston remains calm and thoughtful through hours of conversation with me over the course of several weeks. But there is one final topic to be addressed, and it's the most hurtful of all. The rumor that Jolie is pregnant with Pitt's child has swept around the world; some reports even have her finishing her first trimester.
When I ask Aniston about that, she looks as if I've stabbed her in the heart. Her eyes well up and spill over. Several long minutes go by as the tears keep rolling down her cheeks; she bites her lip, seemingly unable to speak. Finally she shakes her head; this subject is simply too excruciating to discuss.
"My worst fear is that Jen will have to face them having a baby together soon, because that would be beyond beyond painful," says Kristin Hahn.
Fortunately, there are many other things to keep Aniston occupied these days. Although she took some time off after Friends ended, she has since shot several movies, and the coming months will bring a series of premieres. First up is Derailed, a thriller starring Aniston and Clive Owen as two married strangers who meet on a train and arrange a hotel-room tryst—only to have an armed man burst in, rape the woman, and beat the man and blackmail him, setting off a horrific chain of events. The film will make adultery look about as appealing as Fatal Attraction did, according to Aniston: "It will be one of those movies you leave and say, 'The affair thing? Maybe not!'"
Then there's Rumor Has It, whose plot revolves around a young reporter's conviction that The Graduate was based on her family, and that she herself is adopted. Mark Ruffalo plays her fiancé, and Shirley MacLaine is the Mrs. Robinson character, with Kevin Costner as the Benjamin Braddock who may or may not be Aniston's father.
Yet another upcoming film is Friends with Money, in which Aniston portrays a pothead maid whose friends—played by Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack, and Frances McDormand—are all married and far more successful in life.
Aniston is also re-evaluating her future role at Plan B, the production company she formed with Pitt and Brad Grey, who has since become chairman of Paramount. Pitt is now assuming the lead role at Plan B, but Aniston says she will still produce movies through the company.
"I'm excited about what the future holds," she says. "I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, 'What are you going to do?' I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing."
She is trying to outgrow some youthful illusions. Prince Charming let her down, and Aniston no longer believes in one true love. "I think there are many people, many soul mates," she says.
But she still has faith in the redeeming power of love itself. "It's out there," she says. "It will happen. There's an amazing man that's wandering the streets right now who's the father of my children. In five years I would hope to be married and have a kid. I still believe in marriage 100 percent. When I hear people say that they would never do it again, it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Why would you ever close your heart down?"
She gives me a sheepish smile. "Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after."
I don't know how Brad Pitt tolerate this self-absorbed, selfish, manibulator bitch for 7 years ?
yu guyz are really ridiculous yu guyz know what read the article properly and make sure yu understasnd english and can see properly before yu do because thtre is nothing she would do or say that will pleae yu guyz get a life people if yu do not like her guess what do not say anything she did not beg yu did she just get a life guyz and stop slating her i admire her for being honest about the things she was asked about and do yu know what the pictures are very good a little touching but every magazine pictues has that leave her alone please it is becoming more like a delibereate attempt to just pull her down but too late for that guyz she has made it and she has helped people along the way with her donations and by the way she did ot say she does like donating and she did not say she will never travel to countries but she said when it is more authentic she will let us face it if she strats now yu guyz will say she is just petending won't you
THANKS JEN, YOU ROCK! AND IGNORE THE GUY POSTING AGAIN AND AGAIN ON THIS PAGE - HE IS A DIE HARD BRAD FAN! GOOD TO KNOW THAT BRAD HAS AT LEASE 1 FAN. BUT YET AGAIN, WHO CARES???
omg. she's lovely.
Can't she just go away already?
Robby's just jealous that Brad makes more money in one day then white trash Robby will make in his entire life.
Brad also get better pussy than Robby too, and that kills Robby.
They totally airbrushed her chin on cover page.
If she's not covering her face with her hair, she would pose in an angle so we won't see her face.
So helping the needy is not her thing and itdoesn't interest her. She said it herself.
'It's just not my thing. It's not what interests me'.
she's gorgeous, wow ! one of the best actresses of our age ...she just needs the good parts ! YOU GO GIRL !
Shoot! They airbrushed those pictures so much you barely recognize her. I guess that's a good thing because when she's au natural like those posted from Aspen, it's crackhead Bob
She did say that didn't she? She wasn't interested in helping the less fortunate. I guess those stories were true how she humilated Brad in front of his friends by telling him he was going be going by himself to Africa because she was staying in Beverly Hills. Worst thing she could of said in print, that as a celebrity with all her money that she could care less about helping the less fortunate. She thinks it's great that other people do it, but she has no desire. Man, she's selfish
I normally wouldn't comment on JA but the comments she made reguarding helping the less fortunate were damm right tacky.My 9 year old son has a better understanding about how and why you help people.Actors going out there and being politicians or representatives of this or that,as she stated.Whats so hard about talking to a sick kid for a hour?Does she not have the stomach for it?Do tell.Every interview this lady does she is sinking deeper into the hole.I gave her more credit than this at first,boy was I wrong.So Jen enjoy your yoga and tanning.
Absolutely...Man iston!!!
Well, I guess she is just being honest. She might not be charitable but she is still American Sweetheart. You can't really blame her for not being charitable....I mean, how long do you think her career is going to last? One has to be cautious.
Goofy, Reese has taken over as America's sweetheart,and she will be the one who will get offered the best comedy roles.A certain person will be fighting for scraps.
There's a term for her: PASSIVE/AGGRESSIVE. Oh, don't feel sorry for me, I'm so fabulous. Then why are you trolling for sympathy? Bringing up your marriage? It's because her sole claim to fame these days is that she got divorced from Brad Pitt. There's no hot career to speak of; nothing. I respect her even less than before because she's still sifting through the ashes of her marriage PUBLICLY, instead of going over and over this stuff in her psychiatrist's office. PUH-LEEZE.
Angelina Jolie looks 1000 times better pregnant, dressed down and climbing into an airplane than this one does all dolled up and airbrushed. Ew.
Jennifer, down girl! DOWN! Gooood girl. Roll over, here's a biscuit.
The new America's Sweetheart, Reese is also a wife, mother, and now an Oscar winner. Reese is very active in charitable work for unprivileged children.
Only reason JA is still on the cover is she still talks about her dead marriage. She has sunken to the mere shadow, a side-kick to superstars, Jolie-Pitt. She did this all on her own.
This proves Brad Pitt was not just going for a hotter piece of ass. I don't know how he kept his eyes open because all this chick talks about is yoga and herself. Yo, Jen, there's a whole world out there. Man she's boring.
I think she looks great. She should have chosen one of these dresses for the Oscars. So what she needed emotional or mental help, I wish more people would be open about having problems from childhood like Jennifer and we would have less abuse. SO SHE SMOKES POT LIKE 100% of Hollyweird and many Americans and a few presidents. Why should she apologize ...she never insulted anyone for doing charity? Being political active is not for everyone just like parenthood is not for everyone. So she unfortunately sorted through he emotions publicly it happens if you happen to be one of the most famous or iconic characters on television. Maybe, she will never carry a movie so what most actors cannot. However, she seems to be in a good place. I can only sympathize with her on the rabbits. Those damn animals in my backyard scare me and I too much of a punk to have them killed or removed. LOL!
I guess the people insulting her looks most have their mug on a cover or be a supermodel and surely most be famous outside their small world on the internet.
i liked her interview.
and self absorbed are brangelina too.
dont forget that plase
This interview just showed how shallow Jennifer Aniston is!
Holy crap. All this vitriol and hate for someone you don't even know.
Wow, i would just like to comment on all of you rude classless people. Jennifer is a beautiful woman with a very kind heart. Your rude comments refleck your ugly personalities. You have no idea how it must feel to experience what she did and be so out there for the public to judge.
I wish this ugly fake troll would just go away,
Thanks for the pics and the interview!!! i'm glad this is not about brangelina cause i'm sick of them
# 10
She looks like a ugly man bitch, no matter what angle
JA could learn a lot from the posters on this site....there are more sensible thoughts here on Life or Something Like It than whatever her shrink-manicurist-hair stylist-publicist must be feeding her ego in exchange for the cash she kept from the divorce...
Guys,
If you really look closely, click the one with the red outfit, it looks like there something there...like a mans private parts. hmmm. I wonder if she's a SHEMAN?
SheMan? Heeheehee..you guys are funny. i won't be surprised if someone found a hint of an Adam's apple in the next 2 minutes hahaa..
Apple
That is because she is a selfish, snobby, no talent bitch. God I know Brad is thanking God for getting way from that thing.. ewwwwww
Jennifer just wants to move on, which she has done with vince. The media and bamz lovers wont let her because they enjoy criticising her and reading negative things into all she says and does. If she said she wanted to help people ye would be saying she was jumping on ol angies bandwagon. She just cant win!!! Say what ye want about Jennifers looks , but she's much more attractive than the big headed, big lipped and ,judging by those pics of her getting into the aeroplane as her depressed boyfriend held her l v bag, big arsed!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i don't know...for some reason JA's photos make me yearn for Angelina and Maddox' classy (here's the proper use of the word) and adorable bedroom chase pictures in Vanity Fair.
# 39 ....You have no idea how it must feel to experience what she did and be so out there for the public to judge.
who's judging her ? she's the one who's keep bringing up this issue. Can she just say no comment or don't answer anything with her divorce ?
I understand some people is getting tired of JA blah, but does people honestly think she is so bad looking? She may not be beautiful, but give me a break, she looks better then most 37 yrs old. Look at yourself and people around, if not already there, when you hit 37, let's compare. But as far as she wanting the world to move on, then she should STOP TALKING! She says "there is nothing left to talk about, I am sick of everything about myself." but then turn around and agreed to ANOTHER COVER ANOTHER INTERVIEW, this is why it's sooo hard too take her SERIOUSLY. She comes across very self indulgent.
Wow, you people are ruthless. So what if she doesn't want to donate her time to the needy? She seems to imply that she would rather give financially. What's wrong with that?
when the moment comes and it is aauthentic to me i am sure i will she did not sa anything about not helping read people please and understand what yu are readind before yu give comments oh and by the way she went to africa and pakistan and this was long before angie realised she would get involved and if yu look at one of her first interviews she said she knows what she is meant to do but she is not going to jump on the wagon to declare things she knows mihght not come in to frutusion criticise her if yu want to but make sure yu know the facts before yu do
# 17 | helen | March 15, 2006 04:29 AM
"yu guyz are really ridiculous yu guyz know what read the article properly and make sure yu understasnd english and can see properly before yu do because thtre"........
I got a bit dizzy by the time I got the "thre", and so won't be pasting your entire post, but uh Helen, I think you might want to heed your *own* advice before sending out directives learning English.
jpf
Yes the media has been brutal to all three parties involved. But JA also put herself out there with A NEW COVER AND ANOTHER INTERVIEW EVERY FEW MONTHS ABOUT THE SAME TOPIC SHE WANTS PEOPLE TO MOVE ON FROM. I would give her more respect if she KEEP QUIET,REALLY MEANS WHAT SHE SAYS!
She has nothing of interest to talk about. Read the article. She says she doesn't want to talk about it but even the author says she can't stop herself. It's all ME, MYSELF and I with her. The more she talks the more you begin to see what a farce the VF interview was. She admits here that her marriage was over in the summer of 2004 and they held off announcing it until Jan. Her long time therapist dies and all she can think about is herself and how it effects her? She's so beyond self absorbed. Her marriage fell apart because they wanted different things, he wanted to be productive and help the less fortunate and do something meaningful beyond making movies. Aniston? Not so much. She just keeps digging her own grave when she speaks. Brad doesn't need to say anything all you have to do is listen to or read her interviews. How they lasted as long as they did is a mystery. Probably because they never saw each other. Now I can see why he signed up for movie after movie. She's a neurotic, self centered, pot head of a 37 year old chick. Good luck with that Jennifer
#16 I totally agree. Hey, mabe Chinnifer can hook up with Michael Douglas after Z-Jones dumps his wrinkled-up old ass. He has too much nerve to criticize Brad and Angie. I still can't believe that he was that freaking stupid. He speaks of his wife as though she was a dog. Love "it and nurture "it'. What an idiot he is.
Gys, we need to learn from that women. Has nothing but knows how to sell herself very good. Everything she does becomes great. She has learn how to do that. Now she works on that very hard. Nothing can stop her.
GROW UP!! People can say whatever they want about your "PR made couple". You don't like it???LUMP IT little girl. JA has and will have more class in her pinky toe than AJ has in her entire FAMILY TREE!!!! Grow up and go back to your STALKING BAMZ+1 board. On this board we look at the pictures andmove on.. you CRAZYS...go on in your fantasy world about BPAJ, LIKE YOU KNOWTHEM!! WTF!! Are you kidding. Do you think they give a damn if I don't like them,NOPE!! However the constant PAPS up their ASS is YOUR STALKING FAULT!!! Thank you for ruining EVERYTHING THEY DO AND GO!! We don't have to do anything... you STALKERS are pissing them off more than anyone can so.... I applaud all of you BAMZ fans!!
# 52 | jose | March 15, 2006 10:47 AM
Because some aren't coming away with the same conclusions drawn only means we see it from a different standpoint. It doesn't mean one is right, or one is wrong, just different.
I don't hate Jennifer Aniston, but I DO dislike her manipulations, and I do believe her to be an opportunistic self-centered, neurotic woman who can't seem to move beyond two steps without knowing she has "people like yourself" sending her cosmic "there there, it's going to be alright" pat's on the the back. I think she's needy, was always needy, overly self involved (I think even those who love her to death have to admit this), and at the same time, shrewed, and quite calculating. She's continued to parlay her breakup into career moves that by most accounts wouldn't be forthcoming had she never been married to whom she was married.
Regarding her charitable participation? I don't care about when OR if she gave money, did humanitarian this or that, or when she did it because this isn't a competition. For her to suddenly NOW bring it up after having nearly two years to do so, leaves me even more convinced that she isn't truly desirous of the public's sympathy for her drying up, or even the subject of she and her marriage "going away. She's going to be around playing more sympathy cards until those run out and Huvane can find a fresh deck for her to play. Hey, I wouldn't be suprised if a baby doesn't suddenly pop up.
You can buy it if you want, I don't.
Please, stop the hat. Jennifer isn't a bad person. She is cute, even Brad said she's a sweet girl. She hasn't said bad stuff about Angelina. Please just let he live her life. She has a right to talk. Everyone is special, try being nice, maybe read the bible. AMEN
Usually I don't comment on this woman,but had to read the article,as I only skimmed through it yesterday,and saw Brad's name come up too often. Most of this article centers around Brad and her breakup,if she wants to get past it ,belive me her publicist has enough power to have requested,that nothing about her marriage break up blah blah blah not be published in the article. The truth is her life is so dull and one dimensional,that without Brad in the mix,there is actually nothing to talk about. The truth is her own fans don't want to hear about her relationship with Vince,that is not interesting enough. The woman refuses to detach her self from Brad Pitt,because the day she does that will be it for her. This article is a shameless promotion of her movies coming out this year,do you really want to spend ten dollars to see her do another big screen Rachel.I will admit she is a great actress for the small screen,but not the big one. Just think people if for once she would do an interview,with no mention whatsoever of Brad and the bust up what pray tell would she have to say,and do you honestly want to hear it. I think she did her self in with this one.
Was anyone as disgusted as I was when she started talking about her "shrink"? How disgusting that she was able to find humour about her therapists death. Perhaps she thought the irony of it was amusing but maybe she should keep that to herself. All she could do was think about how her shrinks death was going to affect her and her problems. I used to like her but she really just disgusts me now. I think she deserves everything that she gets.
That's the thing. Her fans have this idea in their heads that she is Rachel Green, but she isn't. She's far from it. She swears like nobody's business. She's also catty. Did you see her call American Idol crap? She's lucky she got Friends when she did because as she's said she couldn't get hired. These people are given a chance and it's CRAP? The thing about her therapist was just beyond. And what about the guy who paid her bill? She's was put out because someone gave her a random act of kindness. And HELLO on the new age psycho babble. Enough already. She needs to her bony ass off the therapist couch and out into the real world where people and things don't revolve around her. It's true, her fans are more interested in Brad and Angie well let's face because they're more interesting. They keep moving forward, forward, forward and Aniston is still stuck in the same rut. She's a miserable unhappy person and it comes through
I have nothing againts her but she really needs to stop talking abt brad to gain some respect for herself from her fans and for her work. i dont think she does it intentionally though, it's as if the writer continously bait her to say something abt brad (check out the nicole kidman post cruise remark thing) but like someone said earlier, her publicist must put a stop to all this brad talking.
its not doing her any good and it sure wont help her career.
dont do a teri hatcher jen. be strong.
I have nothing againts her but she really needs to stop talking abt brad to gain some respect for herself from her fans and for her work. i dont think she does it intentionally though, it's as if the writer continously bait her to say something abt brad (check out the nicole kidman post cruise remark thing) but like someone said earlier, her publicist must put a stop to all this brad talking.
its not doing her any good and it sure wont help her career.
dont do a teri hatcher jen. be strong.
I normally don't post but JA is really starting to annoy me with every interview. She sounds whiny and self centered, it's all about her friends, shopping, tanning, massages & her hair. like someone stated "she is so shallow!" notice she only wants cover shots or red carpet pics. She hides her face from the paparazzi when she with VV, she makes my "skin crawl."
Yeah but did you see, he said she can't stop talking about it. She's a loon
That's one Hollywood Bitch I cannot stand ( michael duffusdouglas is the other bitch) ! I still can't believe Brad pitt even married that selfish asshole in the first place. . . I think the happiness from the Ganja smoke clouded his judgement the day he popped the question. I wonder if he regrets that. . . I am almost positive he regrets not announcing their split just 1 year earlier! I get the vibe that the marriage was over long before the public knew!
"When I bring up Rumor Has It, she looks at me with an exaggerated pained expression and says. "Oh. we don't need to talk about that, do we? The worst experience of my life. The worst experience; the worst film."
I wonder how Shirley McLain will feel when she reads or hears about this comment, considering she went to bat for Aniston more than once during the films promos!
What a self serving, back biting bitch!
Pity no way, is she pitiful hell yes!
Notice she always says she doesn't read the tabloids or internet stuff yet she says "I do more then shop" Where did she get that from? She so reads everything about her, because she's obsessed by herself and her friends. She's still stuck in the HS group friends mentality. She's said no man can compete with her girlfriends. I suggest she give up men then
# 60 | jens friend | March 15, 2006 11:32 AM
How about you go read it?! You seem to be the one confused here. You condone Jennifer's obvious drinking, smoking, cussing, sleeping with VV,......."and those are just the things we know about."
I love it when hypocrosy is obvious to everyone but the hypocrite casting stones...."can anyone say Michael Douglas....and jens friend"?
jpf
JA does a lot of jumping on & off the wagons doesn't she? A woman in turmoil and not to sure at all where she is and who she is. Perhaps this could have been a bit frustrating for her ex husband who became enchanted with a woman who appears to have no confusion about who she is, where she's been or where she's going. It must have driven Brad nuts to try to figure out where his wife was at on a day to day basis or what she wanted.or where she was going or whatever. She boggles my mind. Give me a straight forward, no nonsense , secure and confident woman anyday. This is the kind of woman that drives most men COO-KOO. I kknow it was hard Brad but you made the right choice dude!
WOW
Yep that is the problem, these Jen fans think that she is like the charactor she played on Friends. When she is far from it. She is poison at the box office, and I doubt she will be getting many more offers to be on the big screen.
Oh, and does anyone else find it kinda funny how right when it seems like brad and angelina were starting to gain some distance from jennifer she has to come out and start yapping about Brad again? we probably wouldnt be discussing her or her article if it didn't happen to mention B & A! know what I'm sayin, yo? ; )
Why is she bringing up her therapist's death like that? It seems wrong to me. I agree with everyone about her cant help talking about the breakup because its the only interesting thing to talk about for her.
Aniston always comes across as the kind of girl that's really annoying and wants to be Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City. Ohhhh my girl friends are so great omg look at those shoes ahhh screw that man gossip gossip shop shop blah blah blah. I cant stand her now.
Jens Friend:
Reading the bible from cover to cover, would be 100 times more entertaining, than having to watch 5 minutes of that no talent Jen. She is Soooooo Boring its ridiuclous.
Her shrink dies and all she can say is woo is me? What am I going to do, my shrink is dead? How self centered. All she cares about is herself. She could have said something about what a wonderful person her shrink was, and how much she grieves for her shrink's family. But noooo, all she says is how it was bad timing and made her life more painful. Come on Jen. There are other people in this world besides yourself!!!
This woman is incredibly boring, and has nothing to say except talk about things related to her ex-husband. It is really pathetic. I wish she would “move on” like she says she wants to, but it is obviously just talk. The only thing she talks about is her position as a scorned woman, and she talks about things related to her ex. Stop beating the dead horse!!!
YIKES! Is this for real? Was this really the article that is coming out next week in Vogue? I never had much to say about this woman until recently and always tried to see her side of it too. But now I am thinking that what's been being said about her is really true. I can not believe she would talk about her therapist in the VF article in present tense and then follow up in Vogue saying she died in December one month before she & Brad seperated. Then laugh about it!! Is that bad to say she wonders? AHHHHHH YEA!! What a ditz brain. I hope Angie's waterbag doesn't break from the hysterical laughter of this grandiose blunder. OMG!
Then the comment on humanitarian work. Was that woman who came to the table for real? I mean she must have been to get up that close to her table and interview with all the security. I guess Steve (PR MAN) is thinking she should join the ranks but JA wont't have anything to do with it since it's not her thing? Now there is a loud message between the lines for ya. " I am nothing like Angelina Jolie . I am the bunnie that hides in a hole and shits all over my fans" Talk about crunch crunch crunch. You better move out of dodge. This is public image suicide in it's highest form.
I am jumping folks I am an ANGIE fan now. Call me a fence jumper but gotta do what you gotta do. Anyone else want to join me for a Aniston Team T-shirt burning bomb fire?
She is not a "Profile in Courage"!Also why do all these writers make her into such a hero, because she got dumped. Her PR people are messing up her image more and more!
Also, she is dissing DERAILED, after it flop because her lackluster performance, I hope Rob Reiner doesn't want to work with her again. She told Newsweek she didn't like the way the Vanity Fair article portrayed her, NOW she doesn't regret it! Sarah Jessica should teach Aniston how to go from Tv to Movies without floping!
JA did (does) drugs... are you kidding. WTF!! Do you think GIRLY..tuck it away.. BP wasn't doing it with her? You are all delusional!! This is HOLLYWOOD PEOPLE!! Plus... should I write a novel on AJ drug of choice, looney bin stay?? I didn't think so.Oh right AJ is SO MUCH better and this is her pastand has moved on... do you think she should be having kids after admitting to trying to kill herself on more than one occasion? Please you people believe what you want..when you want!! AJ is worse than JA because at least JA is not responsible for another human being (soon to be 3) GOD HELP THOSE KIDS. AJ is SO SELFISH!!! Not giving up flying while pregnant!!! Are you kidding, when you have kids you have to GROW UP!!! Not do whatever you want, she is responsible for those kids.. well the nanny is but... she is the money maker. Please bring on the JA bashing, doesn't hurt me. By calling AJ out on her short comings you all feel like it is a personal atack! GET A CLUE!! You don't know them, and NEVER WILL!!!!
Oh, well, after reading Jen's Vogue interview, I feel nothing for her ... bubbles but sad. I'm just wondering how she managed to talk the same crap again and again and again and not feel sick. Though she said she is sick of it, why do I get a feeling that actually she enjoys talking about it or may that be the only thing she has on her mind?
$47 are you freaking kidding me, you said that Jennifer just want to move on and the Media and BAMZ is not letting her I don't know what kind of denial you are in but boy do you have it wrong. Who is the one that are constantly giving intverviewed and are constantly talking about it. BAMZ are just going about their business not talking to the media or giving interview. Okay I understand that you are a Aniston fan but you got to think intelligently. Let hope this is your girl last interview and hopeful she can go and find peace with her relationship with Vince and lets just hope this one last because if not then it will be a whole new Saga like this one she can't let go off
wow, she's fuckin selfish. all she cares about is herself. All day just woriking out, getting acupunctures, Shopping!! WTF!!!now she doesn't want pity or be a victim when she's the one that started asking for it. telling everyone that she has pity parties for herself. Now it's back lash. talking about your ex husband last year and now she doesn't want to hear about it. SHe brought it upon herself. She's the one that still talking about the thing that she doesn't want to talk about. how DUMB!She's nothing without BRAD
"....you dont know them and you never will!!"
how about you oh pathetic what the....you're so upset that your chin was being criticized...as you said this is hollywood punk...learn to have a thick skin and just say "oh well....whatever you all guys say, jen is still my idol and you can never change my opinion" repeat these words several time because if not you're going to get so red on the face being so upset and getting a high blood pressure......and tell to your idol if you have the clout to tell her to just say "no comment" like the other couple are doing...for goodness sake...can someone tell jen to just shut up. if she needs to open her thin flappy lips, she should discuss her upcoming movies not her divorce or personal life...but then what to discuss except that unfortunate incident in her life...she keeps going back about it...she is not the only one who got divorce in or outside hollywood but no...she keeps looking back not moving forward as she insisted in her interviews....girl... just shut your motherfucker thin flappy lips okay!!
This was a waste of time INTERVIEW. Nothing good what so ever. She really can't move on, which is pretty sad. so people will always feel sympathy for her, even if she doesn't want it. I think she brought upon herself.
JA comments about her therapist death is atypical surfer girl answer.
"No, she died. It's very funny. I mean, this is the thing: Isn't it all funny? Thank God we can have a sense of humor. Good God!" -JA (jacka$$)
wtf is Jen smoking that loco weed to make a joke out of death. "There's a sensitivity chip that's missing," w/ JA instead of BP.
# 23 | dude | March 15, 2006 07:16 AM
It's a joke?
# 23 | dude | March 15, 2006 07:16 AM
It's a joke?
The more I read this bull, the more it stinks!
Jennifer Aniston has had ample opportunity to shore up all those things she asserted, "and quite firmly" way back in the Vanity Fair interview. Things such as Brad leaving her for Angelina, or her disbelief that they were having an affair while making MAMS, or that the marriage issues had only suddenly shown up "when Angelina Jolie did ".
Why can't people see that she has deftly, and slowly allowing the press and public to revert back to the notion that all those things DID occur, except for the last one, which to read or hear now, she and Brad were simply "too happy", and were working things out. She's talking in circles, saying nothing, but at the same time leaving the stench of just enough inuindo lingering to guarentee yet another interview down the road, and maybe then some will get a clue and realize that the only people who broke up her marriage was she and Brad.
Cindy2, thanks so much for putting the Vanity Fair interview up.
jpf
# 50 | be objective | March 15, 2006 10:45 AM
Halle Berry looks better (39 yrs ) than Chinnifer Maniston (37 yrs) .
Keep in mind this is the same person who said her mother was the last disease she needed to rid herself of.
She's never wrong. Everything is always done to her, she's never involved. She needs to look at herself and her own behaviors instead of blaming everyone else in the room.
Are you all forgetting that this article makes Vogue and Aniston money. None of you would turn it down. She does not sound conceited to me. I believe it was smart of her not to comment on humanitarian or polictical issues because I could care less about celebrities' opinions. This is an article by the way, as was all the other articles posted. They are not word for word conversations. They are manipulated to make the article interesting. Yes this article is not interesting but most celebrity interviews aren't, in my opinion. They tell me nothing about someone's character. I do not like JA that much or AJ for that matter. Neither are great actresses (my opinion) and I do not choose to see eithers' movies because they are in it. Fact AJ is beautiful and JA is cute, AJ is a humanitarian and JA is rich and ordinary. Shit, do you know how many people love to be tan, or who are not happy with the way they look. I know alot of people like that, but they are not bad people. And just because we all can't be humanatarians doesn't mean we are horrible human beings. Realistically, we are all selfish. We work to make ourselves happy, that may be by helping others, or making a ton of money, to each his/her own.
To CINDY2 and the BAMZ Fans:
Thank you, thank you for republishing that article from VF. I re-read it and I have even MORE respect and admiration for Jennifer Anniston because of it. I noticed a lot of the posters are the very same posters who love BP & AJ and are always whining about the JA fans on the other boards, with “why are you here”, “just go away if you don’t like them”. Well, what about you?!? Have you decided to lower yourselves to their level? Is this some sort of payback and revenge? Does it make you feel better?
I also read the Vogue article and watched how everyone proceeded to tear it apart and “read between the lines”. It seems to me that when you “read between those lines”, you injected your thoughts and opinions, and interpreted it the way you “wanted” it to read. Because I read an entirely different article about a woman who is genuine, humble, funny and smart! She’s also beautiful, incredibly beautiful.
BTW, for those of you who are sooo miserable that you spend your days spewing hate on these boards about someone that you don’t even know, I go right by them…. don’t even waste my time reading them, especially the ones that attack her looks. Are you as superficial as you are miserable?
I don’t know Jennifer Anniston and I don’t pretend that I do. I only know about her through her interviews and her acting. I don’t read rags because they’re full of lies. What I’ve seen and read about her, I definitely admire and there is NOTHING any of you hateful, miserable, unhappy people with nothing-better-to-do, is going to change that! Accept it and MOVE ON with your lives. Or better yet, go find something that makes you happy, because JA doesn’t seem to be doing it for you folks!
It's the full content and context of the interview. Her words. She's quoted so much in this thing because like the writer said she didn't want to stop talking.
She comes off as self absorbed, rude, inconsiderate insecure and needy. She let slip a lot of information here. Her marriage was over by the early summer of 2004 which means it had a lead up probably starting in 2003. Even that is documented in the interviews both she and Brad did then. Infamous interviews where they both sounded like two people ready to get out of the marriage. This woman at 37 plays the blame game. Problem is, she created it, all of it with the VF interview. Now, she can't get out of it. Pitt probably knew and figured that if you give her enough rope she'll hang herself and she is right before our eyes. Pitt's never looked back and you can see why.
# 79 jasmine
hahaha...
I'd join you girl, burning Team Aniston shirts, except Courtney Cox must have bought all of them online, i didn't get any.
Cindy2 thanks for the VF article. Leslie Bennetts you fat bitch,doyou expect anyone to believe a 13yr old boy is going to be an Aniston fan,I thought 13yr old boys were into Tomb Raider and not Romantic Comedys....Liar. Leslie Bennetts painted Angie in a very negative light,and used the word diabolical,when she asked a rhetorical question about Pitt,also why the hell can't they just say Angelina's son,why does it always have to be Angelina's adopted cambodian son Maddox.
Where were you trying to go with that Leslie Bennets,you hateful Bitch. Oh Jennifer,you don't want to take potshots,but you took plenty,and why were your friends Ms Aniston,so damned involved in your marriage anyway. Clearly you both didn't take time for each other,so this marriage was clearly not a priority,I get the feeling this marriage might possibly have been over from year one,but because you guys were a brand the charade was kept up,I mean on one hand you were both telling us you were madly in love,and on the other you and Brad were clearly not making enough time for each other. Is it possible Jennifer that you and Brad played the public into believing that this marriage was something it wasn't,and he tried really hard to give it a go because of his up bringing. Don't ask me a thinking person to believe,you and Brad were the epitome of Marital Bliss and suddenly he meets Jolie and checks out of the marriage mentally and emotionally. Maybe just Maybe and I am going out on a limb on this one,you both realized you each married the wrong person? and it was easier for both of you to keep up the charade,because neither had ever met anyone worth walking away for? HMMMM! It would explain,why you both spent so much time apart,it made the marriage more bearable.
CONGRADULATIONS JJ! You have now stooped to Perez Hilton's level. I read the article and still cant understand your hatred for this woman. The interviewer brings up Pitt not JA. Still can see the pity party being thrown but I guess if I had a dimented mind I could see it. All you BAMZ freaks, continue day dreaming in LA LA land about being apart of the Jolie-Pitt family
For someone being described as articulate, Ms. Aniston is quoted as erroneously referencing her therapist as "my shrink." This is not only condescending, it is also callous of her to mention her therapist's demise in such a simplistic public manner.
She continually weaves in her ambiguous hipocrisy of having moved on from her ill-feelings toward her failed marriage. It appears from her redundant interviews that Ms. Aniston's therapy sessions have yet to achieve the goal of modifying her ego-centric behavior.
# 99 | Congrats | March 15, 2006 03:07 PM
Why is it when not everyone buys what JA is selling it's because of hate? I don't hate anyone,
Why the name calling? Why liken JJ to Perez Hilton, and then proceed to act like you're there with the derogatory remarks?
jpf
EXACTLY
Awe darn it. Maybe if we called Mouse, I know she has a whole closet full of them. But then again that would make her cry and I don't want to make her cry. She is so sweet and fragile like Jen. She might hurt herself in front of her mirror ya know, or choke on her soy beans and granola if she knew we were hopping the fence... I bet she decorated her room with them anyway making curtains, bed spresds, lampshades and pillows out of those Jennifer Aniston Team T-shirts. Ya know it's the new vogue bedroom decor ! Everyone is buying them. They come in sets of every color but BLACK, BROWN & GREY! You are probably right about Courtney. We know she won't part with them. I KNOW!!! Jessica Simpson!. Do you think she would give us one? She is so busy with her one liners, dressed up so beautifully in her baseball gear I bet she wouldn't mind at all!
All we're saying is the girl (JA) does PROTEST TOO MUCH.
Debe ser dificil que siempre estes viendo fotos y que te pregunten siempre de la persona que mas has amado y su relacion con otra y con su familia instantanea, ha tomado los pasos a seguir, a tratado de sanar su corazon herido, creo que ha sido demasido duro para ella, pero creo que lo va a lograr Jennifer sigue adelante
She does protest too much because she wishes she could tell more. There are probably some financial arrangements (to her benefit of course that bind her verbally and legally.
I propose a boycott.
Do NOT under any circumstances buy magazines with aniston's face on the cover.
Do NOT buy tickets or let others buy tickets for you to any movie she is in from now on.
Do NOT rent or buy any dvds with her in them
This will help her to go away faster. Do NOT support her habit of whining or any other "habits" she may have.
This has been a public service announcement.
Thanks Jared and Cindy2 for posting Jen's interviews.
Now, first off i'm not a Jennifer Aniston fan. I didn't dislike her before but i'm through with her now. I don't like manipulators and frauds and Jennifer is both by her own actions.
In her own interview Aniston opened the door and cried all over Leslie Bennetts chest talking about how wronged she felt about Pitt's emotional affair with Jolie. How she had pity parties and "she choose to believe her husband" while some of her tribe backstabbed Pitt in the back. In no time did was there any kind words about her marriage to Pitt...a graceful goodbye.
Now, we have her Vogue interview called a "Profile in Courage"...WTF, OK i see where this is going. This is support to be her major..I've moved on, so don't make me your victim". Ouch! Those comment about Victim girl, Pity girl and the victimization of Jen in the gossip sites, really hurt her feeling. But the thing about Jen is that she is not clever or smart...she is a hard worker but she is not intelligent at all because the more she talks the more she reveal and the truth does emerge.
To all of Jens fans your idol told on herself and i don't thing she even knew it. Because this interview has revealed that Jen is self-centered, narcassist (I, I'm and I've was spoken 105 times by Jen) and a fraud...She talked about how she didn't believe that a celebrity should headline charity..(a delibrate slam on Angie) but didn't she do that Katrina telethon or promoted a charity fashion show last year? Then she slammed that lady behind her back who wanted her to help save dying children after she left her believing her fraud image that she's the "friend" next door...hah. If you're Oprah and it's the Angel Network!
Then doing her thrilling tribute about her therapist...oops, I'm mean her shrink who died on her before she had to announce the break-up of her marriage, in DEC/2004. A marriage that had broken up during the summer while she was doing that gawd awful "Rumor had it." A whole 6 months of her marriage where she and Pitt were going thru the pain of ending a marriage that she knew that was over by DEC/2004 only the legalities were to start place at the beginning of the year....So by the time her VF interview was published in Aug./2005 a year later, her marriage to Pitt was already over and she is still crying and doing "pity parties" with her tribe and yelling at the ocean....why do I feel that Jen's fans have been royally "played" with her new interview "A Profile in Courage"....hmm.
The average wife doesn't live in the Hollywood Hills, have a huge bank account or a job that pays 8 million a picture or produce films with A-list actors or get free "swag" for being a B-list actor or was married to a "great guy" by all accounts who wanted a family and have children....which she doesn't talk about (finally_) this time and don't trash his ex nor talk about their problems but move on and live his life with his new family (who happens to be Angelina, Maddox, Zahara Jolie and baby on the way) OK life sucks. Jen gets to do Yoga, shops, have a new boyfriend who is very funny and loyal and her tribe....how courageous is that.
You make no sense referencing to Perez Hilton and then talking like the very "demented" people you scorn. Best you go back to Perez Hilton and a dictionary. Like JPF stated... just because we don't agree with Ms. Aniston's media interviews doesn't mean we hate her. Just don't care for her wallowing in a marriage that has been finished for over 2 years now, and her underlying back stabbing subliminal messages toward her ex and AJ. Come right out and say it if you think Brad wasn't loyal or you hate Angelina Jolie for scooping up you ex husband. Vince is "fiercely loyal" ouch BRAD! "It's just not my thing" to be involved in humanitarian efforts. Ouch Angie! LAME. She is obviously still scorned and stabbing back in her oh so sweet american girl way. Not even her Vince can heal it. As far as I am concerned she is the Bermuda Triangle. ME MYSELF AND I. That's what is making people's skin crawl.
WOO HOO to crybabyaniston and #108!!
Well said!!! JA is a fraud. I hope the JA fans can finally start to see what she has been doing to you all. She had such an opportunity to really put her best foot forward and recover from this mess. Very unfortunate she took the opportunity to focus on BP and relinguish her trophy " the unluckiest in love"
Nauseating. Glad I didn't spend my $ on this story. Thanks JJ.
My father who doesn't give a crap about Hollywood saw the this cover mag and...
Father: Why do we have to feel sorry for her? Does she have cancel or something?
Me: No, Dad. She got divorced, remember?
Father: I thought that was last year?
Me: Yes, it was.
Everybody is sick of this, Aniston. Move the fuck on.
My father who doesn't give a crap about Hollywood saw the this cover mag and...
Father: Why do we have to feel sorry for her? Does she have cancel or something?
Me: No, Dad. She got divorced, remember?
Father: I thought that was last year?
Me: Yes, it was.
Everybody is sick of this, Aniston. Move the fuck on.
CrybabyAinston
That was the best post I read on this thread. You nailed it
REVISED POST:
I propose a boycott of Pitt and Jolie products:
Do NOT under any circumstances buy magazines with Pitt 's and Jolie's name or face on the cover or mentioned in the bylines.
Do NOT buy tickets or let others buy tickets for you to any movie Pitt or Jolie are in from now on (that is simply because I have taste, and Jolie can't act).
Do NOT rent or buy any dvds with Pitt or Jolie in them
This will help Pitt/Jolie to go away faster. Do NOT support their habits of adultery, selfishness, or vanity.
This has been a public service announcement.
I'm serious
There is no way in hell I would purchase a movie with JA in it. What a waist of money that would be. She can not act. and I do not like her, and the article even makes it worse, Because supporting non-talented actress is just not my thing.
This just comfirmed what Ted C from Awful Truth said about Aniston back in 2004 that Pitt wanted to do more charity work but Aniston wanted nothing to do with it. She just want to stay in her BH home, smoking pot and topless suntanning. What a selfish bitch.
#107/Crybaby Aniston, Has waaaay too much time on his or her hands.
#104 /ingird, estos pendejos nuca van a saber lo que es perder una persona que quieren. Ojala que le vaya bien a Jennifer. Yo se que quando mi madre perdio a mi papa a otra mujer, le toco 3 anos para poder recuperarse. Estos idiotas no entienden eso.
You BAMZ+1 freaks almost convinced me. But you didnt. Eat shit!
x#113
Good luck with your boycott because you'll need it. The boycott of Aniston has already begun, ie Derailed and RHI. Notice how SJP's latest movie received horrible reviews but still came in #1 at the boxoffice? She has real fans who are willing to fork over $$ to see her. Aniston...not so much.
Th Jolie-Pitts are in high demand. Again Aniston...not so much. Long live the Jolie-Pitts!
Whoa JS,
way to go! Your post was one of the most common sensible and intelligent I have read so far on JJ's board.
Why don't all of you AJ/BP fans stay off this board and just go back and discuss how great AJ looks, blah, blah, blah.......Why come here? Do you think by tearing Jen Aniston apart it will change how we see her? You see it one way, we see it another and that's not going to change. In fact, your attitude just makes it more difficult to ever see Jolie in any kind of positive light.
Do you not understand how incredibly insecure, petty, and jealous you all sound? Every trait you accuse JA of having you are putting on display here.
Thanks JJ for the article and pictures, I enjoyed them very much.
JA is her own worse enemy. Let her keep flapping her gums she'll be doing infomercials in a year.
Thanks Jared for the article. Her own words reinforce why many can't stand her. Selfish bitch.
Thank You to Alexandrina for posting this.This article is from a British magazine regarding Aniston's new interview for Vogue
Good article....
Jennifer Aniston Still Banging On And On About Brad Pitt
You know that Jennifer Aniston? She's an actress you know - she gets paid to make films and television shows. We're reminding you in case you thought Aniston's primary occupation was whining about Brad Pitt.
Because even though she tries to disguise it by making bad movies like Derailed and getting mistaken for a man by a big magazine, roughly 96% of what comes out of the mouth of Jennifer Aniston is about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. However, there are signs that Jennifer Aniston wants to move on with her life and talk about other things. Do we know this because she's chosen to keep a dignified silence about the events? No, we know it because she's done a massive interview where she's been banging on and on and on about it.
Since Brad Pitt left her to shack up with (and knock up) Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston (DVDs) has tried many things to ease her mind. She's shouted at the sea, she's thrown pity parties, she's lounged around topless, been called a man by GQ and thrown a homeless man in prison, to name but a few.
Not even falling in love with drunk but not illegally drunk actor Vince Vaughn has taken Jennifer Aniston's mind off the Brad Pitt situation. It's been 14 months since Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt broke up, and yet any time Aniston goes near a tape recorder, that seems to be all she ever talks about. Guess what? Jennifer Aniston has done an interview with Vogue magazine. And guess what she talks about? That's right:
"I'm so tired of being part of this sick, twisted Bermuda Triangle ... Don't make me your victim ... It makes my skin crawl."
That's right. Jennifer Aniston's mission to preserve every single ambient thought pulsing through her brain at any point in time across a number of publications continues. Today the subject on Aniston's mind seems to be bitterness and anger. As well as the whole Bermuda Triangle thing, Jennifer Aniston also took the time to swipe at Brad in the Vogue interview by bragging about Vince Vaughn:
"First and foremost, he's a really good, loyal friend. Fiercely loyal."
Still, at least there's one person in the world who Jennifer Aniston hasn't annoyed with her incessant complaining. It's Michael Douglas, who - in an interview with GQ magazine - responds to year-old news like a confused elderly nursing home resident fumbling around trying to find the reading glasses perched on top of his head:
"I don't know about Brad Pitt, leaving that beautiful woman (Aniston) to go hold orphans for Angelina ... I mean how long is that going to last? And don't ask me what happened with Renée Zellweger (and husband Kenny Chesney). I don't know how you get married for four months."
Don't ask you? We're not sure that anyone actually did, Michael.
#121- thank you for the article. it said it all.
The books you people keep writing about Aniston is just feeding the fire. Her celebritiy will never die because freaks on this message board keep writing literally dissertations about a enhanced public persona. How could you care so much!?! You are not convincing anyone but yourselves! How can you hate/dislike anyone so much? So, Aniston is consumed with herself and you are consumed with her to keep posting! The crazies know the timeline of her entire life...
Who is going to boycott Vogue, the fashion bible...you must be crazy?
I AGREE THE BIBLE IS A GREAT READ, BETTER THAN THE HATEFUL TIRADES ABOUT A SUPPOSEDLY WASHED UP CELEBRITY OR EVEN HER INTERVIEW!
So, I guess that makes me Team Aniston! YEAH!
A British rag you mean. Just a hateful rag that tears people apart for sport.
Do you thiink that will change anyone's mind? Do you think hateful articles like this will make anyone think less of her? Nope . It's not going to happen. Keep beating your heads against the wall.
Hey Jess!
Why don't you go stick your head in hole. You are all over the AJ/BP posting sites with your ugly mouth and crass remarks. Now you come here like you have something dignified to say? You are a fraud just like Aniston who you admire and hold to such high esteem. Give us a break! You are a two faced hyprocrit. Why don't you leave ALL the sites? This a free forum and anyone can come here to voice their opinion. Who do you think you are High Priestess of guard dogs for JA ? If you don't like what your girl had to say about the interview and you think we are all going to leave you are by far the stupidest one on these posts.
Tick Tock Tick Tock...Jenny is running out of time. Time for those choice movie roles, time to give birth to a baby, time until no one gives a damn about her any more Tick Tock Tick Tock
Sounds more like the British Intelligence.! Good read.
Jess if you are so sure that your girl JA is so well loved and so well supported, then it shouldn't matter what we "haters" have to say and that we "haters" are "banging our heads against the wall". But something tells me that you're worried. Worried that there are more JA haters than JA lovers. You should be worried.
she's gorgeous, funny and genuine : I admire her a lot
keeping it real, why don't you post your real name? Is it Cindy2, Lou, African GirL, JPF,or the other names you have made up?
Nope, I won't leave ALL the sites, like you said this is a free forum and anyone can voice their opinion. I like Jennifer Aniston and all you're hate filled posts are not going to change that.
I love it when you get all riled up like that though. Just keep beating your head against the wall, and show your nasty, vicious, hateful self for all the world to see. The very things you accuse Jennifer of is...you REALLY are. Now FLIP out! haaaaaaa
she is HOT !!!!! beautiful photo spread !!!!!!!! :O)
Jasmine-
You know, last time I heard, it was Toni Braxton who actually wore one of her TEAM ANISTON shirts while shopping...but Simpson, ah well, she seems ambivalent about following in the steps of the fabulous Jolie or Aniston (who stole the America's Sweetheart title from......Tom Hanks!).
those Team shirts were so childish, so high school and cheering squad-ish, no doubt a concept of aniston's friends. if AJ/BP fans wore something to indicate their preference, it should at least be cool, 21st century aviator shades.
From the looks of the magazine covers it is apparent that Ms Ansiton has NOT moved on except in the make up department. Is there anything new and exciting about her? I am happy she has cleared up the "homewrecker" theory though. That will take a lot of wind out of Team Anistons sails.
A Hard headed bunch but good to see their fireceless leader cleared that up. Thank Jen!
she looks horrible
Wow she is beautiful and hot in these pictures. Thanks JJ
Jess- Your stupdity is relentless. What difference does a name make? Pick one for me if you need it so bad. I am still a person reading your crap and two faced bulls***. You just proved how much you are on the Jolie-Pitt sites. You named some of their strongest supporters. Amazing how alike you are to JA as you tie the loose around your own neck and keep jumping. Are you sure you're not really Jen herself? And if you are attempting to refer to AJ/BP supporters as projecting their characteristics onto AJ.... Please reread your own comments. I believe it is you who are doing all the projecting.
Jess- Your stupdity is relentless. What difference does a name make? Pick one for me if you need it so bad. I am still a person reading your crap and two faced bulls***. You just proved how much you are on the Jolie-Pitt sites. You named some of their strongest supporters. Amazing how alike you are to JA as you tie the loose around your own neck and keep jumping. Are you sure you're not really Jen herself? And if you are attempting to refer to AJ/BP supporters as projecting their characteristics onto AJ.... Please reread your own comments. I believe it is you who are doing all the projecting.
Jess- Your stupdity is relentless. What difference does a name make? Pick one for me if you need it so bad. I am still a person reading your crap and two faced bulls***. You just proved how much you are on the Jolie-Pitt sites. You named some of their strongest supporters. Amazing how alike you are to JA as you tie the loose around your own neck and keep jumping. Are you sure you're not really Jen herself? And if you are attempting to refer to AJ/BP supporters as projecting their characteristics onto AJ.... Please reread your own comments. I believe it is you who are doing all the projecting.
Oh, grow up! It is pathetic how all of you live your life on someone else and what a couple of actresses' (while they are sipping tea at the the Waldorf Astoria and enjoying the success the massses have given them) team you are on! Put that much energy into your housework all you stay ay home moms or go play outside the rest of you- children. My goodness, isn't there something better to do?
Oh, grow up! It is pathetic how all of you live your life on someone else and what a couple of actresses' (while they are sipping tea at the the Waldorf Astoria and enjoying the success the massses have given them) team you are on! Put that much energy into your housework all you stay ay home moms or go play outside the rest of you- children. My goodness, isn't there something better to do?
I don't get this woman. She need to shut up and move on.
*applause* to #107 & #108
Lately JA main goal in life is to sell magazines. Hey, I just saved a lot of money on my insurance by switching over to Gyco.
I don't get this woman. She need to shut up and move on.
I think that pot smoking has affected her brain. Seriously, she sounds like she's not all there. And what is there is really narcissistic and boring.
This is the most self-centered woman I have ever read about. She doesn't care about abused children, ended up making fun of them, she doesn't care for charity, she wasn't ever grateful that someone paid for her lunch. With great wealth comes great responsibility to her others, she doesn't understand that. Man she is the biggest fraud. How can anyone be more self-centered, not surprised that brad dropped her sorry ass. She needs to just drop of the face of the earth and realise that she is nothing more than a washed up TV actress.
i think YOU're the bitch ! ok you don't like her! But what if it was you the ugly thing ??? OK, her chin is special, but maybe you have 3 boobs, or a butthead ? Never know...
Just shut you fu***** mouth
i think YOU're the bitch ! ok you don't like her! But what if it was you the ugly thing ??? OK, her chin is special, but maybe you have 3 boobs, or a butthead ? Never know...
Just shut you fu***** mouth
Keeping it real,
what the hell are you going on about? Two-faced? I never once said anything other than I like Jennifer Aniston. I am NOT a Jolie Pitt fan and never said so. If someone said that they're using my name, and it wasn't me. Point it out to me if you please. I know the many names that come on JJ's by reading from time to time it's always the same ones.
Look, calm down and take a deep breath. You did just what I said you'd do...flip out. Have some self control over your emotions. Learn to settle down before you post. O.K.? I'm not trying to be nasty. It's not healthy to let yourself get this worked up over more or less fictional characters, because we don't really know them. Neither one of us know any of these people really. It takes time to know someone, and all we know is a public image they put out. Just take a deep breath and think before you post.
"Don't Feel Sorry for Me"--OKAY! WE DON'T! MOVE ON! YOU'RE BORING!
Any shred of sympathy I still had for this woman is gone; she's a pity whore.
Is this Aniston woman for real!!??? She found it humorous that her therapist (opps! her word for the poor woman was "shrink"!) had died. And to crack a joke about dying/dead children when the older woman who approached her at lunch talked about an organisation dealing with abused and fostered children. Even if she didn't believe what the woman was saying she needn't have said what she did after that. She is the one who's got a sensitivity chip missing - in her case probably more than 1 chip missing!
Hey I like her. Doesn't matter what anyone says. She hasn't done anything wrong. Why not like her? I have to say she is pretty. and very nice.
I agree with the insensitiveness of cracking a joke about the abused and fostered children.
"Well. You said you wanted to save the dying children?"
"Mmmm. No. I don't recall that."
"Yeah. They said so. They called and said you were interested and then you just decided never to call again. But the children are dead now, so it's OK. The window has passed. But it's good to meet you in person!"
Laughing, she puts her head in her hands and says, "Oh, God, It's just too much." She pauses for a moment, still shaking her head in amazement. When we finally stop laughing, I ask her how she feels about being asked to do those sorts of things.
This is not funny! More than 5000 children do die each day because they are being neglected. Man she really has a warped sense of humor...
It doesn't matter how she answers anything, you would find something wrong with it. I take exactly the opposite from how you take. Wow some of you people seriously need to get off these fan sites and get to a therapist and talk about your anger issues.
whinge whinge whinge.
Same shit different day, Chinnochio.
People who "move on" for real don't talk constantly about the same thing.
People who move on to other boyfriends (poor Vincey) don't continue to yammer on about the one they were with once.
Move on for real, Jennifer Aniston. And get a new freakin' publicist; the one you have makes you into a sniveling, simpering victim.
Or, wait, maybe that's what you like?
whinge whinge whinge.
Same shit different day, Chinnochio.
People who "move on" for real don't talk constantly about the same thing.
People who move on to other boyfriends (poor Vincey) don't continue to yammer on about the one they were with once.
Move on for real, Jennifer Aniston. And get a new freakin' publicist; the one you have makes you into a sniveling, simpering victim.
Or, wait, maybe that's what you like?
#154/55 WHOA! Sorry but I don't have any anger issue with Aniston or anyone else. I'm just amazed by her approach to serious issues like death and dying and abused kids.
Thank you JJ. We want more pictures of Jennifer and Vince. Can you make it happen? Thanks
#157 sorry, but did you read the entire article? I think she was just trying to say that someone she doesn't know comes up to her and says her people volunteered her to do something and she knew nothing about it. She was being sarcastic. Here was this opportunity and she missed it , now it was too late, but it was great to meet you in person sort of thing. She wasn't commenting on the plight of starving/abused children. She was commenting on the fact that strangers can assume so much and how it is to be in public spotlight. That's my take on it anyway.
Poooooooor Jen. So sad. So dumped. So irrelevant. Infomercials in her future.
This woman went through a DIVORCE. She got all kinds of covers, interviews, AWARD,?????? Is she the only one that has ever been hurt in a relationship, gotten a divorce?? why is HER divorce sooo important? I am puzzled by all this.
man, that pic w/ the red dress, she does look like she might have a penis...or that she's wearing those jockey strap? Who knows. I was never that much of a fan. I always thought her face looks funny. Cute body but not sexy at all. I never understood people who are crazy about her. Even when she was w/ Pitt, my first thought was, "why? what did he see in her?" Although it took him many years to reallise that, I'm glad he finally left.
The way she comes across in interviews,she makes it so easy for people to not like her and slam her. She is just tragic. She's wasting quality print space, I just read natalie portman's article she comes across as so smart and interesting.
HMMMMMM, Jennifer DIVORCED him honey, not the other way around. Your mistaken, just had to set you right.
I have reread this interview twice and I can not find where you guys say that she said that her marriage was over June 2004 , they waited until December 2004 to announce it, that they were living together but not trying to work things out. Somebody show me where it said this. You either love Jen or hate her. I like her.On the star bandwagonI read it to mean that she respects those that put their name out front for it but that that is not her style. She does donate money I just don't think that she feels comfortable being out on the front line..The haters will continue to hate and the lovers will continue to love. I just could not find where she supposedly said all that about her marriage ending in June 2004. Just show me, I could always have misread it.
# 165 | carolina | March 15, 2006 10:48 PM
Let me assist you on your journey to the truth:
VH1: Celebrity Break-ups (2005)
The Brad & Jennifer Aniston segment on VH1’s ‘Celebrity Break-ups’ show.
Video Download (21.8MB)
http://pittcenter.com/videos/misc.php
jpf
# 165 | carolina | March 15, 2006 10:48 PM
Let me assist you on your journey to the truth:
VH1: Celebrity Break-ups (2005)
The Brad & Jennifer Aniston segment on VH1’s ‘Celebrity Break-ups’ show.
Video Download (21.8MB)
http://pittcenter.com/videos/misc.php
jpf
Jess, JS , you make me ashamed to be a fan of Jen's. You are why we are the butt of internet jokes and bad mouthing. Please go to the other side. Whith fans like you . Jen's career is definitely going to go to the toilet.
$163
Natalie Portman went to Harvard. Aniston can't string any coherent sentense. In talent, brains, charisma and of course beauty, there is no contest between the two.
I'm saying compared to Natalie Portman this girl's Jen's a moron
THIS IS FOR JESS THE FRAUD others need not waste their time
The following are just a few of your many dignified, non hateful and loving Jen defending posts.
PLEASE ANGE,
every single entry on here has Jennifer's name in it! Who can't get over it? It's Brad and Jolie's fans! Why don't you all just move one and quit Jennifer. Now say after me, "I wish I could quit you Jennifer!" Then do it!!!!!!
# 370 | Jess | March 14, 2006 05:55 PM
brain transplant,
do you think that LOOKS are all that matter? I know lots of good looking people who also happen to be complete asses. It's what inside that counts and evidently Vince has more inside than Brad cause he wasn't worth fighting for. Poor Brads been dumped by too many women, and Jennifer is the one who divorced him!
# 29 | Jess | March 13, 2006 03:29 PM
Pity party,
thank you for the compliments. I agree with you wholeheartedly when you say I DO have depth and profound insight. I'm glad you noticed that. Thank you. Now about Jen and Vince, any fool can see you're just eating your self alive with jealously over Jen. Why is that dear? Did a beautiful woman like Jen steal your man away? Could that be it?
# 37 | Jess | March 13, 2006 03:44 PM
Needs a labotomy,
Ummmm......sorry you sound just like a very jealous WOMAN or GIRL........meow!
ahhhhhh.....and you people aren't jealous of the beautiful Jenny? Ya right! roflmao!!
# 53 | Jess | March 13, 2006 04:13 PM
To ALL The HATERS,
if you don't like what Jennifer is saying then take your own advise and just don't read it. Simple plan. Put it in action and quit your bitching!
# 83 | Jess | March 13, 2006 05:58 PM
Juanita, STFU
if you're sick of Jennifer Aniston then pay her no mind. You act as if she has some kind of spell over you. Brad HAS given several interviews and Angelina has given one I'm aware of saying: I was just a shoulder for Brad to cry on, everyone will blame me as a homewrecker. Boo Hoo
They're always in the news also with all their jet setting to "help" the needy. So shut the Fvck up already and stay off this board if you Hate.
# 226 | Jess | March 14, 2006 04:38 PM
Jade, what the hell are you "trying" to say? You are a very difficult read and ramble on and on and make little sense. Your novel would've been better had you not deviated from the subject so often and went into so many tangents. Please don't even try to be a writer, cause you SUCK.
Now, here's some advice if you don't like what Jennifer is saying...........don't READ it. Simple.
Next.
# 219 | Jess | March 14, 2006 03:47 PM
you know, pathetic bitch,
all you do is bitch and moan. Jen is beautiful inside and out. I don't know what you look like but I can see your insides clearly and you are UGLY.
# 230 | Jess | March 14, 2006 04:44 PM
keeping it real, why don't you post your real name? Is it Cindy2, Lou, African GirL, JPF,or the other names you have made up?
Nope, I won't leave ALL the sites, like you said this is a free forum and anyone can voice their opinion. I like Jennifer Aniston and all you're hate filled posts are not going to change that.
I love it when you get all riled up like that though. Just keep beating your head against the wall, and show your nasty, vicious, hateful self for all the world to see. The very things you accuse Jennifer of is...you REALLY are. Now FLIP out! haaaaaaa
Keeping it real,what the hell are you going on about? Two-faced? I never once said anything other than I like Jennifer Aniston. I am NOT a Jolie Pitt fan and never said so. If someone said that they're using my name, and it wasn't me. Point it out to me if you please. I know the many names that come on JJ's by reading from time to time it's always the same ones.
Look, calm down and take a deep breath. You did just what I said you'd do...flip out. Have some self control over your emotions. Learn to settle down before you post. O.K.? I'm not trying to be nasty. It's not healthy to let yourself get this worked up over more or less fictional characters, because we don't really know them. Neither one of us know any of these people really. It takes time to know someone, and all we know is a public image they put out. Just take a deep breath and think before you post.
Need I say more Jess?
You are one lame broad. a liar, a fraud, a fake and a major BS***.just like your IDOL. Look at your own contradictions. Your repeatedly tell people in one way or another to just " Shut the f*** UP ? Seems to me you are the one who is all riled up here and do a lot of your own relentless bitching. You tell people they suck, they are pathetic bitches, ugly, vile, jealous.....then come again like you have NO hate filled posts? You're just another passive-aggressive sorry Jen loving fraud. Are you sure you're not Jen? Come on now and tell us it's someone else using your name ?
*Sorry to waste everyones time on this but I can't stand a frickin' fraud. If you're a hater be a hater. If you are a lover be a lover. I don't care. Just be real.*
I don't know you guys, but I just feel that Jennifer is getting more sympathy from people and getting more popular than she used to be is just plain untrue. I'm working in a comercial bank, and from what I know, most of people and co-workers that I daily interact with feel she is annoying, ridiculous and self-centered. And those are the same persons who used to like her, watching her shows on Friends (honestly I'm one of them). Now with her non-stop topless magazine covers, big mouth interviews everywhere, we are like, "WTF, can you just get it over?" Obviously she tried too hard, and talked too much. Didn't Chinese usually say :"Silence is gold"? I wish she ever heard about that, and find her peace.
To Just Jared
I have being visiting your site for a number of months now. And especially anything on bamz and maniston. Of all the other sites I visit you are the very best.
What amazes me is where would these people be without us. We make them famous and rich, does that mean they can have all that and live normal lives. If one wants to do something for someone less forunate, would that not make you a better person,and possibly enrich you.
Jennifer Aniston does sound like a selfish person but maybe she aint got much upstairs she dosent appear to have much depth to her. She probaly dosent know any other sort of life and dosent want to.
Thanks for the awesome site and the articles from Vanity Fair and Vouge way too expensive down here.
Cheers
Alexandra
Keeping it real, Whoa, you are one scary mother. To go to that much trouble you must be some kind of stalker or something. How much time have you spent time putting together everything I've ever posted ........which is beyond amazing you went to that much trouble to prove a point.
You are sick and need help.
You have a lot of pent up anger and need to talk to someone, maybe some counseling would help.
You need to do some anger management. I advise you to call someone and get some serious help. I am going to write Jared about this. Please quit stalking me.
Aniston is such a fraud, everyone hates her, all the blogs can't stand her. Can't she see that Vogue, Vanity Fair are milking her for all her worth. This article presents her in such a negative light, that it seemed stupid of her and her PR to have agreed to it, proves how dumb she really is. She's just slowing digging her own grave. She's going to be the joke of Hollywood. Jen just go on Dr Phil to sort out your problems.
I just cant understand why you people are so so mean to jen. She has suffered much, went through a lot. She's also human as all of you are with all the imperfections. All these chinny chin and maniston things are pathetic. We are all created in the image and likeness of God. You are taunting not jen but the One who created you. Please refrain and be afraid
Brad Pitt, while certainly the asshole in this situation, is very attractive and an incredibly intelligent, self confident man. I sincerely doubt that he'd spend 7 years of his life with the woman you are all describing. I don't blame her a bit for harping on the subject. From the looks of things, she was lied to and made a fool by Brad towards the end of their MARRIAGE. You think you know someone, you pledge your life to them, and the deceive you. I'm sorry, but that's not something you just get over. If someone I considered family walked out of my life the way that he did, I'd be upset about it for the rest of my life.
Even still, most of the women I know spend months harping on relationships that weren't nearly as involved as theirs. The only thing that makes JA stand out here is the fact that she's talking about it and, while redundant and a bit annoying, it doesn't make her a bad person.
I don't even really care that much about JA, I just truly don't understand the venom here. She was beautiful and talented BEFORE Brad and DURING their marriage, but now that he left her she's suddenly an ugly, bitchy, slut?
I think the worst part here is that I'd bet all the money in the world that most of you have never spent a day of your life volunteering for any charities, can't act, couldn't get a date with even a D-list actor/actress, and that at least 99.9% of you would take every opportunity available to exact revenge on the person that cheated on you, lied to you, and then ran off to knock up his coworker before the ink was dry. Seriously, it's ok to not like her but CHILL THE F*CK OUT!
Meli,
very insightful post. I enjoy seeing her pic's and reading her interviews here. Thanks again Jared.
Jen gave a very humanistic and endearing tribute to her shrink. It's quite deep and that's why many IGNORANT posters did not get it.
It just shows their level of education and literacy. GO Jen your beauty (inside and out ) is exquisite!
WOW, JENNIFER ANISTON COMES OFF AS SHALLOW.
NOW WE KNOW WHY SHE DOES NOT DO CHARITY WORK.
WHAT A LOSER. AT LEAST SHE IS HONEST ENOUGH TO ADMIT HER FILMS SUCKED!!!!!!! THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG. SHE SUCKS AS AN ACTRESS. HER FILMSSUCK. SHE ADMITS IT.
MOVE ON JEN, THE PITY PARTY IS NOT CUTE ANYMORE.
AND WHY PHOTOSHOP HER SO MUCH? YIKES. NOT ATTRACTIVE GIRL.
Jess-
You asked to "point it out to me...please" where you had posted. Doesn't take but a few Minutes to cut & paste on a good computer. You did all the writing. I just clicked a few times. Responding to your posts titled to me is NOT stalking. It's called a reply. And just because I have seen your posts several times as does all the world when you publish on a blog like this, is simply using you're own words to prove a point. Now run to daddy, JJ or the police if you have to, and tell him there is a mean sick person who is calling you out on your BS and you don't know what else to do but run for cover and tattle. You just can't stand not to be in control can you? Even your own JA fans don't want you on their team. Get a clue. Just come clean with yourself and stop with the BS. That's all. Now I am soooooooo done responding to you. Over & OUT.
Keeping it real,
worried are you? Let me tell you something little girl before you run away, those were NOT written to you. Those were written to several different people thur the day. One or two to you maybe and you have no right to do what you did without my permission. Yes, I believe you are a stalker and yes I am reporting you. Please don't address me any longer. All you do is insult and I feel you have some serious anger management problems you need despertly to deal with. LEAVE ME ALONE
Jess
I am not running away. I think it's you who are worried about what a fool you have made of yourself. You are a joke. A stalker?
Talk about having some serious mental issues and by all the lovely nouns you repeatedly spew out at people who are not loving your Jen it's YOU little missy who has the anger issues. Look at yourself. If you don't want people to "pont it out you" than don't ask them to accuse of them of being a stalker.
You just can't come to terms with your own personality and how it leaks out everywhere. I'll be more than happy to leave your sorry condition alone. You are one confused human being.
rewind: If you don't want people to point it out to you then don't ask them to then accuse them of being a stalker.
You are so exhausting. Let it go and stop with your accusations and name calling.
to address #164 about how Jen was the one who filed for divorce. It doesn't matter who filed for divorce. You know Jen is bitter, she's still yappin her thin lips on every magazine and Ophra. Give me a break. We all know Brad dumped her. Why else does she throw a pity party everyday? Brad is quit, living the life he wanted, a life that he thought Jen would give and he finally met someone who's in the same place:family and helping the unfortunate. Stop making your Jen look like a saint. She's hungry for an Oscar, chain smokin', now gamblin' and she's accomplished all but the first. Give it up. You know your at a losing Team!
hi everyone ,
Isnt it crazy that we are all getting so angry with each other ( Jen fans vs BAMZ fans) over this ..i am a jen fan myself , always have been ..and there are jus a few things i want to say -
1). No we are not fugly singles ..most of us have gorgeous husbands /boyfriends.
2). We know it is wrong to comment on what happened in a marriage ...it jus seemed odd that someone could recover from the fallout of a seven year relationship ..sooooo fast.
3) we wish BAMZ well and hope u wish jen well too. Everyone has their reasons for what they do . I am sure if any of our marriages were in trouble , angie or brad or jen would not really get heartache over it .
4) If u want us to belive that what u admire abt BPAJ is their "humanitarianism" stop gushing all the time over how good they look ...it makes you guys sound rather superficial . Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. You might not find vince good looking , looks arent the only thing that matter in life ,lets all respect each other's opinions .
5) Humanitarianism is very subjective and can be misused. We will keep our opinion of angie's "homewrecker" reputation to ourselves and you keep your opinion of her as a "humanitarinism" to yourselves. I guess what i am saying is ....we are going to have different opinons abt this ..lets learn to live with it . I appreciate the fact that all of us care so much though , one way or the other :-)
I've just skimmed over the article but I like to comment on the comments.
# 69 | velvett1 | March 15, 2006 12:16 PM
My very exact thoughts. Shirley MacLaine took her under her wings to protect her from the media. Rob Reiner praised her for how she dealt with the circus. Then, poor Kevin Costner wrongfully took the hit for all the drama on the set of Rumor Has It, when it was Jennifer all along who was throwing a prima donna fit and causing trouble on the set. She had the first director, Ted Griffin, fired. For what? Because she wasn't coming off on film the way she liked it to be? Even cinematographers aren't miracle workers!! (Oh yeah, the first cinematographer got fired too.)
What do all of them get in return? An ingrate who totally trashes their film, even as it's currently in the DVD market. Talk about biting the hand that feeds her. Granted, Brad has a rep for trashing films that don't live up to his artistic standards either, but I don't think I've come across him ripping any of his films to shreds the way Jennifer has with Rumor Has It.
The standard is when you have the talent to back up all the antics and attitude of drama queen or king, you'll get that slack. When you're just a penny ante tv actress trying to make it on the big screen, you better be gracious and deferential.
"This is public image suicide in it's highest form."# 79 | jasmine | March 15, 2006 12:48 PM
I couldn't have phrased it better myself, jasmine. It is Jennifer's public execution of her persona.
# 92 | Inconnu | March 15, 2006 01:50 PM
So does Salma Hayek at 39 looks better than Jennifer.
She talked about how she didn't believe that a celebrity should headline charity..(a delibrate slam on Angie) but didn't she do that Katrina telethon or promoted a charity fashion show last year?# 107 | crybabyAniston | March 15, 2006 03:48 PM
Yes, in fact, the recurring image I always see is her walking down a catwalk in a red dress with a rose in her hand and she swings her arms to both shoulders in a victory gesture. That was one of those glamorous benefits she's more than willing to put in her time away from her smoking and drinking binges.
I loved your analysis and comments, crybabyAniston
*Sorry to waste everyones time on this but I can't stand a frickin' fraud. If you're a hater be a hater. If you are a lover be a lover. I don't care. Just be real.*
# 171 | keeping it real | March 16, 2006 12:16 AM
I, for one, love people busting on bullshit artists. And you did a wonderful job.
JEN I KNOW U HAVE CONFIDENCE, CHARM AND YOU ARE WAY SMARTER THAN WHAT ANGRY HATERS THINK OF YOU. THANK YOU, ONCE AGAIN, FOR KEEPING IT REAL! LUV YA GIRL!
EXACTLY-
That's so funny you say that about Toni Braxton. My husband is in the entertainment biz and knows her husband. That's so cute. I myself, who loves my husband very much too, am just not a Jen fan anymore. I have just come to admires AJ for her transformation into a woman of substance.This whole "triangle" has shown me she has really blossomed into a great spirit and carries herself with such confidence and strength. I just don't admire Jennifer Aniston as a woman of substance anymore. She really is quite shallow and self centerd when it comes right down to it. I loved her on "Friends" but ya know that really was just her character .It's not even an issue of marriage or fidelity or any of these everyday life changing experiences. It how one deals with it. I believe it has been quite an art to try an live through a public divorce and the swiftness of your ex moving on so fast and all, but she is really an amateur isn't she on the PR angle. I believe life is a series of problems... the challenge it is how we deal with them. JA just doesn't cut the cake for me anymore on how she is handling all this. I just wished she would have just let it go already. I bet if I talked to Toni she would probably have to agree.
I Love the aviator shades idea! I can wear them when I burn my shirt! Lol
171 YOU ARE SO RIGHT.BUT ITS 90% OF THESE PEOPLE NOT JUST ONE THAT ARE BLABBER MOUTHS........THERE SHOULD BE NO COMMENT BOARD
You can fix it up five ways to Sunday, you can put lipstick on a pig: she's still a pig.
A squealing, whiny piggy.
Jasmine -
excellent idea! wearing em would protect your eyes from flames shrieking with "don't pity me! yeah pity me!" a la harry potter goblet of fa-ya.
now i don't feel so guilty having boought Friends dvds and NOT liking aniston's attitude.
i am not really a JA fan but my gosh dont u think it's time for people to leave her alone. that's all she's asking. just to freaking leave her alone and move on already. how would you feel if you were in her shoes. she is just trying to move on and go on with her life. at least she was honest to herself and to everyone. sure she admitted she was devastated, of course who wouldn;t be. and now she is trying to tell us that she had moved on and recovered, so why dont u let her. gosh people are just so rude and mean.
good god!, Some of you guys are so pathetic!
At least JA is real without any plastic surgery or big fat puffy-lips bomb. Some of you call her ugly well check out AJ on page six!!
Right, I think people should leave Jennifer alone.
Now, if Jennifer could leave Brad and Angelina alone...
HEY MANISTON FANS: DID YOU ALL READ THE ARTICLE?????
I love how Maniston fans ignore the things that make Jen look back. She herself above said Rumor and Derailed sucked yet Maniston fans were so defensive and supportive of those films. Your hero admits her films sucked.
Also, she is so shallow about her lack of interest in humanitarian work. Wow, maniston fans why don't you comment on that?
And please explain why someone who wants to be left alone is still talking about the same things that make people talk about her.
Do you hear any interviews with Brad and Angelina? No.
Only Maniston is talking - she is creating and perpetrating this conflict. Even if you are a fan, admit it.
The Truth Shall Set You Free! I truly love it when Jennifer Aniston do interviews because it is when those interview are release to the public the truth emerges. If I was on Team Aniston i would burn my t-shirt because giving it to charity is not something Jen would like you to do. A celebrity bring attention to the human condition is not an appropriate thing she wants to do. She'll even smile in your face about help dying children, then once you're gone will talk and laugh behind your back with a reporter from a major magfazine.
Also to all the shrinks out there helping self-centered celebrities...please don't die on them before an important event comes up in the celebrity's life because your work will recieve the Jennifer Aniston's thrilling tribute in a major fashion magazine method.
I also love Jennifer memory how she compare her filming "Rumor has it" with the break-up of her marriage and how that affect her acting in that movie...and I can understand that, but by Dec/2004 she knew what was coming and was preparing for the split announcement to the public....so by the time her VF interview was released a full year had past in her life. Yes, the public learned of it in Jan/2005 but Jen knew a good 8 months before that, by her own words in how this affected her acting. Because this year she has moved on and the movies she did and is coming out this year reflect that. So to all Jen's fans who want to beat up on Brad for quickly moving on to Angie...so how is a year too short?
Remember fans this is the timeframe that Jennifer Aniston set and was confirmed by Shirley Maclaine, Rob Reiner and Jen...doing RHI promotion in 2005.
all you jennifer haters, i feel sorry for you. living in a fantasy land through these actors. Angelina jolie is not the first person to every devote time to humanitarian causes, she is not the first celebrity to be a U.N ambassodor. she has learned about certain issues in the last five years that people have been aware of and fighting for decades. everyone does their own part in their own way. to hate on either jennifer or angelina is just feeding into all the hatered and ungliness that aids in humans commiting horrible acts towards one another. i think jennifer looks good and just a little info to those and their airbrush comments. every magazine cover is airbrushed, yes even the ones with angelina jolie. they are both strong women living their lives.both are flawed, i do think that brad and angelina did play great PR in the whole cheating on the wife thing. they had the affair and used great goodwill work to hide the shame. a man that is already involved has never stopped angelina before i.e billy bob
to hate on either side from stories that are at most 50% true is a mistery to me.
What a great interview! She looks gorgeos in the pictures!
How can anyone hate Jennifer Aniston? I commend her for being honest. Half the celebrities out there that do charity work have no idea what they're doign it for and just do it for publicity. She's not claiming to be america's sweetheart and not tryig to be a victim. People who take her words in a negative way are obviously jealous or just plain trash.
Only at Lainey Gossip - not even Ted Casablanca has this scoop! Fresh, as in this morning, from a strategically placed spy in LA ...here's the not-so-exciting scoop: The Pitts, as widely reported, have been doomed for a while: since as early as 2003, when Brad made some telling comments in a magazine interview saying that love doesn't have to be forever, that he and Jen knew that, and that if their ride had to end...it would end, and they would accept it. When the (inexplicable) buzz around her performance in The Good Girl took her to a new level, Jen put Brad off babies until the end of Friends. When the 9th season concluded with an extension, she once again promised one more year. In that time she was signed to nearly 5 upcoming projects...without consulting him first. Her big mistake was not telling him before the scripts would arrive. When he saw her accepting role after role - and had to read about it in the daily trades - he confronted her. And to hold him off, she relented again...temporarily. So the deal is: she finishes the show, he finishes Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Oceans 12 over the summer of 2004...and then they take a break. What happens? Derailed. As in the movie co-starring Clive Owen. She signs on with, yet again, no warning to Brad and it's off to couples therapy we go. Wouldn't you know it...every interview she gave last year leading up to the Friends finale was taped while the two were in counselling. And although she had absolutely NO intention of having a kid any time soon, she still persisted in saying on Diane Sawyer, and Oprah, and ET, and on and on and on...that a baby was on its way (which means she's a better actress than we give her credit for). This further infuriated Brad. 'Obviously your image is more important than actually making what you say real...why are you going on tv saying one thing and then refusing to get this done as soon as you get home?' Next up: filming with Angelina. Jen nearly lost it when she heard about the on-screen chemistry. So she flies to Cannes to open Troy with her husband and they spend a few weeks in Europe where things were actually getting better. For the sake of the marriage, after getting advice from his parents, he was willing to wait, understanding that his wife clearly had many issues to resolve within herself and wasn't ready at the time for a baby anyway. Besides, no one wanted to affect the box office sales of Oceans 12, so the two pledged yet again to give it a go. The problem is, they hardly spent any quality time together in the fall. Jennifer was filming back to back pictures, he was getting ready for the Oceans promo, and ...as my source says, he wasn't willing to be the only person injecting some sincerity and romance in to their marriage anymore. And then came the Oceans 12 cast interview with Diane Sawyer when Brad visibly choked up and said he would like nothing more than to have a little girl like Jen running around. When news of the interview reached Jen, she hit the roof, prompting a huge fight, and the famous 'London' incident when he ended up celebrating his birthday alone last December and she was photographed at the airport, upset and, some say, without her wedding ring. They briefly reconnected over Christmas, made the decision together without fanfare and then joined Courteney and David on vacay for one last hurrah to escape the media frenzy when the announcement dropped on January 7th. However...what started out as an amicable split is getting increasingly nastier as time goes on. Brad is pissed that she hasn't come out to refute the infidelity rumours, that she is content to milk the public's affection and let him look like a cheating scumbag only because she wants to turn it around for her career. Which is exactly why the couple's close friend Catherine Keener (her husband is Dermot Mulroney who guest starred as 'Gavin' on Friends) has almost cut Jen off completely, disgusted at her self-serving behaviour. You'll note, Catherine was one of Jen's closest galpals, along with Kathy Najimy and the three used to have girls' nights almost every week for years. In recent months, Catherine has made a point of being publicly photographed with Brad, while keeping her distance from Jen. And finally...regarding Angelina and the alleged hanky panky on the Smith set... my source says: 'Lainey, he's straight! Show me a guy who isn't going to get a hard-on when Angelina's lying on top of you all sweaty and skimpy dressed...can you? No! So what makes you think Brad Pitt's going to be able to. But he didn't screw her...for sure. Last summer, he was still really in to Jen. He's a pretty loyal guy. When that (insert bad word here) Gwyneth cheated on him, he was nuts. He'd never put anyone else in that position, you know? But now? Game on man. A guy's gotta do...know what I'm sayin'?' And there you have it. Take it for what you will. Call it bullsh*t if you want. Hell...I want to! But remember this: would that kind of story sell as many magazines as an illicit high profile affair???
Reported On 28/04/2005
the only thing that could settle this argument is
post both positive and negative attributes of the two (aj and ja) and see who looks better. go!
I just read the Vogue article. I was perplexed...She comes off as a little insensitive.. kinda out of touch. She went on and on about herself and her emotions, but can NOT formulate coherent sentences about others.
- She found humor in helping - ok maybe it was a prank, for goodness sake don't mimick the lady after shes left. Say something like, leave me your information and I will get in touch with you and your organisation...I would love to lend support.
-About her therapist....wow!!!! "My Shrink died" and then she laughs....no wonder the interviewer thought she was joking. She showed no empathy for someone else's loss. she actually found that FUNNY!!!! and HUMOROUS!!!
- It's not her thing to use her star power to bring awareness to the less fortunate's plight. She doesn't have to be a hard core advocate, but for chrissake, spread a little love and money especially where desperately needed.
-She's very selfish and all is about her. As long as you show her loyalty, she will clinge to you. She needs to realise that she has to give too. she can't always take.
I heard that she was a coke head... must be affecting her judgement
AJ: Hot JA: Dog end of story
I don't hate Jennifer Aniston, I just don't like being manipulated and Jen has been giving out a whole bunch of B.S. and get caught on it. This is about her career goals and once Brad Pitt was not going to be there anymore to use and the public thinking she was dumped for Angelina Jolie..her ego couldn't take it. She just said FU to any class she might had faked.
This Vogue interview that people are reading is Jen in her element...the Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel bitching about her life. WTF with the title "Profile in Courage"...for Jen Aniston. I would expect that title for Dana Reeves, she deserved that title, what has Jen done because I don't see Jen doing what Dana did. OOOHHH HELL NO! That picture does not compute.
So to answer the question: Why does people hate Jennifer Aniston? The answer is they don't, they just want her to fade away, I mean go away and take her self-centered, narcisisted fake backstabbing self and STFU. She is no longer irrelivent and her 15 minutes is over.
This interview paints her in a more negative light than previously imaginable.
JA got a taste of the high life and celebrity when she married Pitt. The attention she got was way out of proportion to her talent or popularity and it was because of him. She just can't let that go because now she thinks it's due her, but she's deluding herself. She's only an adequate actress with no box office appeal. She's like Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson--simply tabloid fodder with fading careers.
Exactly right....Britney Spears thinks she's a great singer. Aniston thinks that she's actually a great actress. Both are deluded. Overrated in every conceivable way, and maybe we as a society should shoulder the blame. Big nips and bleached-blonde tresses do not a great person make.
agree with minx, all this girl had one common denominator, they had a powerful PR team who knew how to mold their public image and another common thing , not smart but real dumb girl.
To # 198 i do think that brad and angelina did play great PR in the whole cheating on the wife thing. .... ...to hate on either side from stories that are 50 % true is a mistery to me.;; your comment is so contradicting, you said the tab news is half true. then why did you believed Brad and Angie cheat. be fair do some "research" Brad didn't cheat coming from the mouth of his ex-wife and his ex's best friend.
Thanks for that article #201. I too have always known that JA & BP had marriage troubles back in 2003. I have been a Brad Pitt fan for years just because I know he is a LOYAL man and how he was raised. He is classic. Beautiful, funny, and I think a sexy and good actor.He was awesome in Guy Richies independent film Snatch. What make him so special though is that he is a man in Hollywood with old fashion morals. I could never believe he would have had an affair with AJ. So many people want to believe it cause yea the story is so much more controversal and sells so many more magazines.
This interview makes me cringe. Any respect or compassion I once had for this lady has gone right down the commode. I was really shocked at what a shallow and insensitive woman she really is. It is all about how you see it or what you want to see I guess, which is why people can read this and say what a great interview. Not to me. Jennifer played a manipulatory game with her husband and it didn't pay off.I have been following them for years. She really believed he would come back to her after their time apart She knew the kind of man he was, what marriage meant to him. She gambled with her love. She knew he was loosing intrest in her career goal vs her committment to him struggle. She had so many fragmented parts to herself. Which is why she needed so much theraphy. But I think after doing MAMS & OCEAN 12 he saw actress' like CZJ, Cate Blanchett and Angie who not only were actresses with children but single moms and actress too. Having his heart
so open to kids and more than ready... having MAddox run up to you with that big smile and sparkle in his eye. iWell, he was out of there and damn, who could blame him. After reading this I give him so much more credit for having endured JA selfish breech of their marriage contract for so long. I wish all the best to Jolie-Pitts. Jennifer courageous? For what? The ability to not "speak" about what a self seerving fool she has been. It all makes perfect sense. I hope these magazines see supporting
this kind of crap is going to hurt them. Put woman like Sheryl Crowe, Melissa Ethridge, Diane reeves and truly courageous
woman on these covers. Models do just fine modeling the clothes.
Oh and #171 kepping it real. I support that too, I think that womanhad her own personal issues going on.
I am getting bored of making fun of this idiot. I will just have to wait till she does some other ignorant thing to harp on her some more. I want to ruin her career because she is such a self centered bitch, but it is really hard to keep comming back here and looking at these God awful images.
I'm so sick of hearing about Jennifer Aniston, she's a talentless, self-centered, boring, homely old witch, and this interview proves that, she can barely string a coherent sentence together. She makes Jessica Simpson look like einstein, whom atleast does charity. Her movies will bomb, because she has no screen presence, can't act and is downright boring. Vince should drop this self serving women, before she sinks his career too. Judging from the interview she clearly has alot of emotional problems, and is very unstable, she needs to go book herself a new shrink and sort them out.
Bravo 171 Keep it real, you did just the right thing about Jess, I was shocked to read her earlier comment about how BAMZ fans should leave this thread, stop being so nasty etc when she's being on the BAMZ threads (and there are more BAMZ's threads then JA threads) making her nasty comments over and over again.
At this stage, I hope JA gives a few more of these interviews. The hole just keeps getting deeper and bigger....
This article really sheds a very negative side of Jen. But i prefer to think the negativity arises from the writer's side not Jen's. Even before the writer meets Jen , her negativity is already in play as shown in her disdain for the venue. She seems to have already made up her mind what the restaurant and its diners represent. And Jen just didnt stood a chance.
Sure, the interview took place. The questions were asked, and the response was given. But the tone and angle of the interview is set and decided by the journalist and this could be dependable on the journo's attitude towards the interviewee, how much $sales its gonna push up for her mag plus, how much of a stir/controversy its gonna create. And going by that, the journo was probably aiming for blockbuster sales or gunning for the Pullitzer Award.
My feel is that Jen, being the natural, friendly person she is, let her guard down. She went for the interview not knowing that the jouna was bent on making mincemeat out of her coz after all this was the same person, whom she had once invited to her home and showed her warm hospitality. So, to me, this article reflected the negative side of the journo, not Jen. Whilst it should not be expected the jouno to produce a sugar and spice interview but for her to dish up something as bitter as this is just distasteful. I did not read the earlier interview this journo did with Jen but should I do a comparison, its probable that we may see 2 totally different perspectives given by the same person. And if i am right on that count, how is it possible that there can be such a swing between the two perspectives? I
Irrespective of how negatively this journo has painted Jen, I choose to believe in the Jen that is loved and held in high faith by those who know her deeply and have long standing relationships with her. Those are the people who can judge Jen best, coz they know her well...and Jen has a very strong and supportive network , one of whom is Jane Pittt who still loves her dearly . These are the people who are in a better position to judge her, not the media, not the common people, not the JA fans and definitely not the vulgar BAMZ fans whose criteria are based on chins, boobs, lips, sexiness, movie awards, humanitarian awards and of course , by the no. of kids you adopt.
Jen's still beautiful. Right now, she is vulnerable and it aint a sin, if she's not able to forget the person whom she had spent 8 yrs of her life with. That doesnt show her weakeness. it shows her depth of character and her loyalty towards those she loves and have given her heart too. When Jen loves, she loves deep and long and it is regrettable that Brad not only betrayed her, but made her look like a fool., through and through.
She's bringing all this upon herself. Journalists cannot pull out character flaws out of thin air, it has to come from the subject. Jen fans are wrapped in the whole Rachel personality that she portrayed. The truth is that is an overly manufacturer persona spun by her PR flacks, it looks like it's slowly unraveling. This interview has got to be the final nail in the coffin for her image suicide. Shows what a fraud she is. She's no "Friend"
#161 -Laura ----"if she's not able to forget the person whom she had spent 8 yrs of her life with. That doesnt show her weakeness. it shows her depth of character and her loyalty towards those she loves and have given her heart too. When Jen loves, she loves deep and long and it is regrettable that Brad not only betrayed her, but made her look like a fool., through and through. "
I would encourage you to read post #201 which you obviously did not do. For if you had you would understand why I and so many of the rest of us cannot help but dispute your opinion. Depth of character? Though it is probably true that she is about as deep as anyone in Hollywood, it is her lack of depth that probably made Angelina that much more desirable to Brad.
You cannot blame the writer of the article for what came out of Jen's mouth. This magazine is owned by the same parent company that GQ and Vanity Fair are so Huvane , her publicist had a hand in her getting a cover story published. Do you really think that they would have intentionally sand trapped her into looking bad?
Please, what makes you think that Brad's mother knew her any better than you do? Don't think that she is immune from thinking that her son married Rachel. Don't think that Mrs. Pitt is not paying attention to how content and happy her son is now. Don't think that she is not aware of the fact that Angelina is giving Brad and his family -in just a couple of years of being in Brad's life- what Jen didn't in 8 years by choice. Blood is thicker than water.
Jen needs to cut her ties to Mrs. Pitt ... as it only exists to keep her connected to Brad. She needs to let go and accept that Brad gave 8 years of his life waiting for her to be a marriage partner and gave up and now he has moved on with someone who is willing and able to be that. She needs to accept and learn from the choices she has made and what those choices contributed to where she is right now be they good or bad.
We all have had our hearts broken but sooner or later we learn that the way to heal is not by playing the victim but by reminding yourself that you are a survivor .
I do wish people would stop making negative comments about either Angelina or Jennifer's looks. To do so is to infer that looks are of more value than essence to you and to Brad. I do not think that Brad chose Angie because she was " prettier /sexier" than Jen.
What differentiates the two women is not looks but depth of humanity. The Vogue article gives us a chance to see the callousness and superficiality that not only reflects Jen's attitude to the world but also gives one an insight into her attitude and perception to those near and dear. She is too focused on herself and with a total lack of empathy or compassion for the world and that includes those close to her. Read her interview again, no thought to the pain and hardship of others ...it is all about HER pain and discomfort and placing the fault blame on everybody with no accountability.
She is someone one should pity, but admire or respect????
TO # 211 (cynthia)
in my opinion i think emotional cheating is the same as physical. how can you deny that something was going on emotionally. that is just my opinion.
i meant that what you read should not have any baring on how you see them as people. are they good people , bad people, ugly, pretty, better, worse. i was addressing their actions not to the content of their character as humans. i just think it is silly to say, i hate so and so, or they are ugly comments along those lines.
maybe they are better for each other, have more in common who knows
and i seem to remenber Jennifer saying she chooses TO BELIEVE HER HUSBAND. that doesn't sound like a definetive no cheating to me.
so sorry to offend you on this matter
Emotional cheating is the same as physical cheating?
Wow! i am a cheater! I am in a loving relationship of 3 years but I have been emotionally cheating with Brad Pitt for as long as I can remember.
We started our cheating on Thelma & Louise when I emotionally realized no man alive I was dating could ever be as fine, as cute or with as nice of an ass. I lve his as. I am emotionally attracted to Brad Pitt's ass.
Brad is my emotional lover and I love every minute of it.
#219: SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 220 you sound like the crazy who needs the shrink!!!!
that is so sad and pathetic. if you can't see the difference between emotionally cheating with someone in the flesh or with someone in your head you are way beyond reasonable conversation.
you need to stop wasting your time living in the real world and go ahead and end it now.
who have you been loving for three years?
tom cruise, george clooney, johnny depp no wait i know prince charming.
you need to get a hold of that anger #220. i don't think your precious Mr. Pitt would think that was very attractive. he would most likely run from you. you fanatic
#221 - I get it now. thanks for letting us know that Jennifer Emotionally Cheated on Brad the last few years . So she has been sharing all her deepest darkest emotions and feelings with her dozen girlfriends and hairdresser and god..knows who else and whomever is swiping Jen as*. All these time, Brad has been void of a emotionless relationship . Thanks for the enlightenment !
Hello Haters? Just leave Jennifer Alone. Please if she uglys whats made you! If she looks Maniston at least that face makes her famous. What about your face what did you get? You made yourself. Hater, Loser. Just leave the girl alone Thats Hollywood life for you baby! buy it or leave it!
Sick of Jennifer Aniston? Then why spend your time reading about her? I'm astonished at the number of people who read the article and say they hate her. If so, why did you read it in the first place??? People can be quite self-contradictory...
That said, these magazines are the ones creating portrayals of JA. The only JA you know is the manufactured image of her.
And the "two sides" framework is rather idiotic and overly simplified. There is no such thing as 'JA versus Brad & Angie'.
It would be much more interesting to see comments and discussion about the disintegrating idea of marriage.
Whatever happened to intelligent conversation???
221: I emotinally cheated with Brad and Brad only. I don't do two emotional lovers at a time. Although Clooney is tempting.
I am joining a group called Emotnial Cheaters Anonymous. I need helllllllllllllllllp!
Hi My name is Mrs Wanna Be Pitt and I am an Emotional cheater.
#221: Shut up and go eat your cheetos with Maniston you freak!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't stand Maniston.
I have been posting here for a couple of days saying not so nice things. I don't really want to hurt anybody. I have a person in my life that somewhat mirrors Jen only by far worse. I cannot afford counciling and needed to vent my frustraitions. I am over it now and see that what I have been saying about Jen wasn't really about her at all and I regret saying it. Jarred if you could delete my posts I would apprieciate it. I will not be back here with any more negative comments. Jen is someone that I do not know and I really can not make any accurate judgements on her. She will make or break her self all on her own and she doesn't need my help one way or the other. I am just one person who had some anger issues that I was unable to get off my chest any other way. I used this forum in a way that it is not intended for and for that I am truely sorry. Thank you for having it for me here however Jared. Because of your site I didn't do things in my actual life that would have had far worse repercussions than a little bad PR.
The way I see it Aniston lives in this bubble where all her people treat her like a queen. She lacks awareness of the reality happenning around her. She's so self absorbed in her own little world it's not even funny. Everything is about ME ME ME. She actually is starting to sound more and more like a sociopath, someone who has a complete and utter disregard for the feelings and emotions of others. See the way she talks of her "shrink" dying and then spun it back to it being about her suffering of her divorce? The way she spoke of and laughed of the charity work was just plain cruel. the bit about other people doing Charity work etc was probably premeditated by her huvane flacks so she won't sound so self centred. Although even that didn't help as she spun it around to make it all abou t her not comfortable doing this sort of work. I just can't believe someone would be able to have put up with this narcassitic, self absorbed woman for seven years. No wonder Brad Pitt seemed like he had the life sucked out of him. Because he had to put up with this crap for years. The only person I feel sorry for is Brad Pitt who had to put up with this cold, cruel hearted woman for 7 years.
apology 288 u poor hun u know everyone has some anger issues and sometimes these places where u r invisible to strangers is a good way to get it off ur chest believe me im sure a lot of us do the same thing and who is easier to attack then celebrities that dont know us and dont care about us at all i find these sites a great way to get over pms so dont sweat it no one knows u here and no one ever will just glad u feel better
whoops ileah is stupid tonight hehehe apology is #228 not 288 sorry
to #219
emotional cheater is the same as physical cheater , then we all are cheater.
the Vanity interview ( mag editor is the brother of Stephen Huvane ) was so biased and double standard. but from this interview, it show how manipulatice and narcissistic Jen.A is. in that interview, Jen best friend C.C, believed BRad was honest to JA and he didn't cheat. but Jen out to protect her career and intergrity, blurb this word "I choose to believe my husband "...that's do mean.
Sad, Jen and her fans refuse to accept that JA should also responsible for the failure of their marriage .
Poor Brad wasted 7 golden years with this self-absorbed, shallow,narcisstic woman. Glad , He finally wake-up and knew there is life beyond red-carpet, salon, spa, booze and cigar.
cant u tell that all bamz fans are shallow people who judge people base on their looks! and they say they love angie n brad for their humanitarian work but if you really look into it, they are just a bunch of googly-eyed childish fans who idolized brad n angie for their so-called sexiest copule in the world.
Brad finally had the balls to drop the callous, shallow narcissist woman.
You guys really need to re-read her comments. She didn't say she was against helping needy or unfortunate people. She said she didn't think actors should act as polititians. They're actors and 90% pf the time they live in a very shltered world and therefore are quite uniformed as to world and even local events. She also felt that one should do charity work in a more philanthropist kind of way - not as a headline grabing or photo op kind of way.
JA Quote " There is nothing left to talk about, i am sick of everything about myself". Then agreed to a cover and ANOTHER interview????? BP quote(2005) " This is a shakeup year, with redirections." WHOSE ACTIONS ARE MORE BELIEVABLE????
Gee. Not a very nice way to address all your fans that have been sympathizing and giving her support all these months.
It's the Jen fans as well she seems to be adressing here saying "You "make my skin crawl." What a Bitch. We've supported her and defended her and she says.......I am sick of it? I do not get it.
She has no courage. She could have had some class and said
I want to thank my fans for all their love and support throughout a difficult time in my life, however I have moved on as have others. Your support was a great and knowing you all
saw me through lets me know my future will continue to be bright and successful....or something to that affect. But NO she
rambles on taking pot shots, telling her fans she's sick of this
tabloid frenzy that brought so much love and support her way
and tells us we make her skin crawl.
Like I said. What a bitch.
She definitely showed no respect to her fans, she's a psychotic manipulator who is beyond self-absorbed. This is one sociopathic bitch. God can she be any more self-important?! Everything has to be about her problems, her hardship and her suffering.
She's desperate because her ride with Brad was her ticket to fame and it's over. She has no movie career and she'll only get the likes of Vince Vaughn as a boyfriend. She knows she wrecked the best thing she had going.
I agree with you #228. Good point. Why didn't she adress her fan base. The people out here rooting for her? She made no mention except "Let me live my life"? "I am sick of being part of a SICK & TWISTED Bermuda Triangle? Well she lost a fan in me. She is the sick & twisted one now. True colors are shining through. Maybe if she took some advice from her Rachel character she could have saved face. (and by the way JA had plastic surgery and breast augmentation.not that that is bad everyone in Hollywood does but she did.) Antway i am mad at her now and feel betrayed as a fan who was rooting for her.
Not a word of thanks and we are the ones making it happen for her. I know i am not alone in this. Not afraid to admit I missed the boat on her.
What kind of woman who's man "supposedly" cheated on her would come out in an interview a year later after their break up and say she is still in love with him? State what a fanatstic guy he is? How she cherish's all the experiences they had? Doesn't sound like a woman who believes her man had an affair. She was in the marriage. She knew him better than anyone. If she believed he din't have an affair , AJ denied an affair and Brad denied it, well good enough for me. JA might be selfish and self centered, but she is not stupid I believe she would have at least said she had her doubts.She stated more than once it was a mutual decision. That both parties were involved in the break up and she staed also that she felt they changed. Both
of them Anyway I do not think he cheated on her. By now, if it had any truth, it would have been all over the media. It has not. It remains a debate based on what outsiders read into it and the medias opprtunities to increase their sales because of public intrest.
What kind of woman who's man "supposedly" cheated on her would come out in an interview a year later after their break up and say she is still in love with him? State what a fanatstic guy he is? How she cherish's all the experiences they had? Doesn't sound like a woman who believes her man had an affair. She was in the marriage. She knew him better than anyone. If she believed he din't have an affair , AJ denied an affair and Brad denied it, well good enough for me. JA might be selfish and self centered, but she is not stupid I believe she would have at least said she had her doubts.She stated more than once it was a mutual decision. That both parties were involved in the break up and she staed also that she felt they changed. Both
of them Anyway I do not think he cheated on her. By now, if it had any truth, it would have been all over the media. It has not. It remains a debate based on what outsiders read into it and the medias opprtunities to increase their sales because of public intrest.
What kind of woman who's man "supposedly" cheated on her would come out in an interview almost a year later after their break up and say she is still in love with him? State what a fanatstic guy he is? How she cherish's all the experiences they had? Doesn't sound like a woman who believes her man had an affair. She was in the marriage. She knew him better than anyone. If she believed he wasn't cheating than good enough for me. JA might be selfish and self centered, but she is not stupid I believe she would have at least said she had her doubts.She stated more than once it was a mutual decision. That" both parties" were involved in the break up and she staed also that they both changed. Both
of them. Anyway I do not think he cheated on her. By now, if it had any truth, it would have been all over the media. It has not. It remains a debate based on what outsiders read into it and the medias opprtunities to increase their sales because of public intrest.
After reading this latest article in Vogue. Well Unfortunately I think the title " the unsinkable" Jennifer Aniston" was just sunk by her own inability to walk away with some dignity. I think she did herself in this time.
So...... sorry! I don't know what I did there.
LMAO, oh boy. This just the funniest thing ever!!! Now you are all begining to see what a fake person she is. The facade is slowly peeling off.
You Guys Make her skin crawl - LOL
She is tired of being pitied by you guys - LMOA
She is sick of you guys - ROTFLMAO
As my favorite character on The Simpson would say "ah ha".
#228 -Apology...We all have those days when we get so angry and frustrated about something and/or someone. I salute you for dealing with it in a way that protected those near and dear you and for owning up to it here to us. I think a lot of us probably use this forum to verbalize our anger and frustration in a way we can't or don't in our every day life. I have a punching bag in my garage . When I was going through my divorce I would visualize my ex's face on it and hit it as hard as I could. Of course that is not the way to deal with anger in the real world but it was a great way for me to release my anger , hurt, frustrations of my life while getting a great upper body workout. It allowed me to get rid of all that negative energy in a constructive way so that I did not take it out on my kids, or co-workers.
I think that is probably why we women have gotten so involved with this triangle . It brings up so many past or current hurts and insecurities about ourselves and our relationships.
When relationships end , few of us have an opportunity to have closure. So, there is a lot of pent up anger and pain that stays within us. And then something comes along that reminds us all over again... Like this .
Airbrushed...AIRBRUSHED...that's al I can say...her chin would have taken up the entire cover since her hair isn't in front of it, so they had to computerize reduce it...looks fake and odd
stop looking at Jen from the vantage point of angelina's pedestal.
they are their own person.
if Brad had screwed, say, Lindsay Lohan instead of Jolie, would that make you look at Aniston differently?
Angelina has her own political thing going on. That's her. But it does not mean that those who do not share her "passion" are any less person than she is.
Losing the person you love, whether to a Mother Theresa Wannabee Who Happens to Have Pillow Lips or to an average girl next door is tough either way.
to # 249
You're wrong, not all person despise Jen . Aniston are Brad or Angelina fans.
#249 But, you see, Brad DIDN'T "screw Lindsay Lohan" (or anybody probably) so there's the difference. I was completely oblivious to these three a year and a half ago; thought Brad was kind of a Hollywood pretty boy, the women I had no opinion of at all. When B & JA's marriage broke up, I felt sorry for her for awhile, but I'd heard the baby rumors and thought Brad just wanted a family. What really eventually turned me off about JA were her interviews and pouting--while Brad and Angie just got on with their lives and did pretty admirable things.
HAHAHA! Maniston dissing her own fans by telling them "DON'T MAKE ME YOUR VICTIM" and the fans still don't listen.
What a beotch she is!
BRAD AND THE BIG LIP BITCH DIDN'T MOVE ON WITH THEIR LIFES, THEY JUST CONTINUED DOING WHAT THEY WAS DOING FROM THE DAY THEY MET, F**KING EACH OTHER LIKE THE RABBITS IN THE YARD. WE ALL NEED TO GET ON WITH OUR LIFES BECAUSE THE MORE WE COMMENT, READ AND LOOK AT THEM THE MORE MONEY THEY MAKE OF US. AS FAR AS I'M CONCERN THEY ARE PERFECT FOR EASH OTHER. THEY ARE BOTH GREAT LAIRS, TO THEMSELVES AND THE WORLD AROUND THEM. IF THEY WAS SO MUCH IN LOVE THEY SHOULD GET MARRIED AND STOP USING THE PRESS TO KEEP THEIR IMAGINE A LIVE. THE MINUTE THEY GET MARRIED THEY WILL BE FORGOTTEN. NO ONE REMEMBERS ANGELINA UNTIL THE BRAD PITT SITUATION CAME UP. SHE CAN'T ACT AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN INTERESTED IN SEEING HIM ACT SO WHATS THE BIG DEAL WITH THEM. EVERYONE IN HOLLYWOOD SEEMS TO BE GETTING PREGNANT ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHR PREGNANT WOMEN IN THE WORLD.
I really don't like this aniston women, stop making bad movies and go back to TV! I'm sure everyone hates her by now. She's even alienated her own fans..
Her therapist dies and she thinks this is life´s funny little joke on her? Really? Is it possible to be more self-centered? Wonder how this woman´s kids felt...the sad part is that it is so clear she has no idea how she comes off, in reality she has no idea who she is...she truly doesn´t understand why people (not actors, because at the end of the day are just members of the human race) do humanitarian work. She truly doesn´t get any of it. And you know, all that I need to get out of LA stuff...I think she may be a little sad when people stop looking at her
Just want to say: Jen, please don't try to make humanitarian work appear ridicolous. 'cause it's a serious thing. I suggest you REALLY live your life and try to stay away from covers for a while. And prepare a great come-back... Good luck, Carla
Who told you that EVERYONE hates her? You just think you know everything people e? I have news for you: YOU DON'T!
It's not only that Anjelina took her husband (of course Brad has his own share in this) you are calling Jennifer names! That's too much and I hope that this happens to you, in your real life and feel the pain.
Irene
Come on, guys, we are in 2006 and a woman who is left by her husband is no longer a victim. She's free and has 1 billion opportunities to change her life. Do you say "Maniston" just because she doesn't have pneumatical lips? Bleark.
I'm sure Brad will regret all and come back to Jen very soon. Would she take him back? Future will tell...
I don't think that Brad will get back to Jen. He doesn deserve to be with her. Once a cheater always a cheater.