If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on, it’s that actress Jennifer Aniston is undisputedly America’s golden girl.
Watch below: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt reunite at the SAG awards
For almost 30 years, we’ve watched Jen on our screens – for most of us, this meant tuning in every night to watch her as Rachel Green on the hit show Friends – and our love for her has never wavered.
We’ve laughed with her, cried with her (on, and off-screen), idolised her, followed her – who could forget the moment last year when the actress seamlessly broke Instagram – and our respect and admiration for the actress doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon.
In a recent cover story for Interview, Aniston further cements her status as a pop culture icon; going into surprising detail about her childhood and revealing that it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows growing up.
Sandra Bullock, who interviewed Aniston for the piece, commented that The Morning Show actress has a remarkable “way of pushing joy and positivity,” following with, “What is it that allows you to stay buoyant and keep from getting discouraged when things don’t go the right way?”
Aniston, who celebrated her 51st birthday earlier this week, told Bullock: “that was the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me,” before diving into the question.
“I think that it comes from growing up in a household that was destabilised and felt unsafe, watching adults being unkind to each other, and witnessing certain things about human behaviour that made me think: ‘I don’t want to do that. I don’t want to be that. I don’t want to experience this feeling I’m having in my body right now. I don’t want anyone else that I ever come in contact with ever to feel that.’”
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She continued: “So I guess I have my parents to thank. You can either be angry or be a martyr, or you can say, ‘You’ve got lemons? Let’s make lemonade.’”
Aniston has spoken previously about her complicated relationship with her mother, actress Nancy Dow, likening it to the one that was portrayed in her 2018 Netflix film, Dumplin’.
“One of the reasons I really loved the mother-daughter aspect of [“Dumplin'”] was because it was very similar in a way to what my mother, and our relationship, was. She was a model and she was all about presentation and what she looked like and what I looked like,” Aniston told The Sunday Telegraph in 2018.
“I did not come out the model child she’d hoped for and it was something that really resonated with me, this little girl just wanting to be seen and wanting to be loved by a mum who was too occupied with things that didn’t quite matter.”
If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on, it’s that actress Jennifer Aniston is undisputedly America’s golden girl.
Watch below: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt reunite at the SAG awards
If there’s one thing that everyone can agree on, it’s that actress Jennifer Aniston is undisputedly America’s golden girl.
Watch below: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt reunite at the SAG awards
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