Mommy, don’t be sad
It is worth starring in a few box-office comedies – and from the fame of smashing, in the board of his girl then do not get away and unlikely to get serious roles. Here and Jennifer more than once had to tear off the labels imposed by the environment. In this case, the actress has a black belt professional. And the training began in her distant childhood.
Jennifer’s mom – former model and actress Nancy Doe – was not shy in her expressions. “Mom emphasized how beautiful she is, what a great model she is and how ugly I am, – recalls Aniston. – Said, as if I am a simpleton and scary, which can not go out on the street without a thick layer of makeup. But Jen was funny, she was often kicked out of class for making her classmates laugh. Later, she would get high marks at art school for the same talent.
When Jennifer was 9 years old, her parents divorced, the girl stayed with her mother and missed her father very much. Once on TV, she saw his game in the series “Days of Our Lives” and realized: wants and can play like him, even better. At 11, Jen enrolled in the drama club at Rudolf Steiner School, and at 18 entered the New York School of the Arts LaGuardia and finally escaped from the crosshairs of a critical maternal eye.
Aniston’s relationship with her mother has not improved over the years. In the late 90’s, when the series “Friends” was at the zenith of glory, Nancy Dow published a collection of memoirs “Mother, Daughter, Friends: Memories”, which published unfortunate amateur photos of Jen and told the world about various unflattering episodes with her participation. A little warmed in the rays of glory of the daughter and lost it: Jennifer completely cut off communication with her mother.
From the imposed mommy image of “fat mouse with eyes in a bunch” actress got rid of at 25 years old. Between Jen sample 80-ies – appetizing round-faced brown hair with an expressive Greek nose and spectacular slender blonde 90-ies – at least a quantum leap. Aniston explains her perfect facial contours as the result of a strict diet, and her corrected nose as a result of doctors’ insistence to eliminate her deviated nasal septum.
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Brad’s some kind of
Before the fateful trials for the series “Friends” Jennifer lived in a bohemian commune in Los Angeles in the company of the same, like her, dreamers who came to conquer Hollywood, grabbed for all the passable roles and rides around the city on a bicycle, moonlighting as a courier. One day her agent scouted that the channel NBC are going to shoot a comedy series about the lives of friends from Manhattan, and recorded her on casting. In the end, from six thousand applicants were selected six actors. Jennifer ideally suited for the role of spoiled daddy’s daughter Rachel Green, who ran away from her own wedding and started an independent life in New York. However, for this image she had to lose ten pounds and turn her hair into a chaotic sheaf, which later entered the hairdresser’s catalogs as a hairstyle “Rachel”.
Jen lived in this image for ten years – the series was filmed and broadcast from 1994 to 2004. During this time from a novice actress Aniston turned into the most influential media star in the world (so about her in 2004 wrote Forbes). And one of the richest: in the last two seasons of “Friends” she received a fee of 1 million dollars per episode! For participation in the series actress five times nominated for an Emmy, in 2002, so won in the category of “Best Actress in a Comedy Series”, and in 2003, received his “Golden Globe”. In between work in the series, she managed to star in good and not too full-length films, strengthened in the image of the girl next door, funny and charming, not causing envy with their ideal parameters.
What is interesting, the titles and plots of the films coincided with the events in her personal life. It all began with “Portrait of Perfection”, “The Good Girl” and “Only She’s the One” – during the filming of these tapes Jen began to meet with Brad Pitt. As Hollywood legend has it, the romance of actors began in 1998 with the light hand of the agent of the actress, who decided to arrange her personal life. It was a blind date: Jennifer did not know exactly with whom goes to meet in the restaurant, and not too worried about it. But after a romantic evening from the contrived pofigism was not a trace. “I will love Brad for the rest of my life,” Aniston shared her happiness from the pages of magazines. – When Brad kissed me for the first time, I was breathless! From the moment I met him, my body went through a ‘hormonal upheaval’ and I became more energetic and hungry for life in all its forms!” Brad echoed her, “Jennifer is a fantastic woman, an intelligent, complex person. She’s the best thing in my life. I think it’s called love. Two years later, the actors married. And five years later, Pitt met “the woman of his dreams” on the set of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” – Angelina Jolie. Thus occurred the “divorce of the century”. During this period, thirty-five-year-old Aniston just starred in the films “Rumor Has It”, “The Price of Treason”, “American Divorce”.
It is possible that it was her mother’s criticism of Jennifer Aniston’s appearance in childhood, to some extent, played a role in the driving force that threw the actress at the age of 42 on the pedestal of the sexiest woman on the planet, according to Men’s Health magazine. Many things in this life we do not because of, but in spite of.
How everyone started to feel sorry for her! In social networks and forums, Jennifer’s fans showered curses on the divorcee Jolie. Aniston, of course, worried, but kept her cool. She argued that divorce is not the worst thing that can happen, life does not revolve only around men. “There is no right and wrong in our story. There is no scoundrel, villain, or innocent romantic victim. It’s just my story. My memory. My experience. I don’t owe anyone or anything in connection with it.”
Late bloomers
After her divorce Aniston starred in the comedy “Promise is not to marry” and ironically this period was marked by a series of failed romances with actors Vince Vaughn, Gerard Butler, model Paul Sculfor and musician Adam Duritz. Tabloids never tired of maligning and calling the actress “eternal bride”. The offended mother criticized her daughter about her unwillingness to give birth to a child. Everyone poked their noses into her business. But Jen shrugged it off and did what she was interested in: filming, traveling, practicing yoga. Yoga definitely strengthens not only the body, but also the soul,” says Jennifer. – I sleep better after practicing, which means I can work better. Only once did I try Botox injections, but I didn’t like the result. It seems to me that such things, on the contrary, make a woman look older, somehow firmer. As for age, I treat it as a formality. The main thing I have long ago realized for myself is that life begins with dreams and expectations, but who says that all of them must come true? One day you wake up and realize: all your life plans have collapsed. And in this sense, I definitely like my age, when you know how to perceive such things correctly.
In 2009 Aniston starred in the romantic drama “Love Happens” and soon met a new love – actor Justin Theroux. Their relationship, including an official marriage, lasted seven years. Going through a divorce at 49 is much more difficult than at 35. According to Jennifer, psychotherapy and only it saved her life in that situation. And also, perhaps, work. Since then, two years have passed, and Aniston in the photo smiles again. In one of the last interviews she said: “Maybe I have everything late, I take a long time to ripen, you know, there are such flowers or fruit. But somehow it seems to me that, in spite of everything, everything is just beginning for me”.
