“Sexy is important, but comfort is essential,” Jennifer Aniston explains her decorating method. She buys houses in Los Angeles, renovates them, lives in them and sells them. She has admitted that she would be a designer if she weren’t an actress, but that dream will have to wait. She has just received two new Emmy nominations, as executive producer and dramatic actress for The Morning Show.
In September we will see if she gets her second statuette, the first came in 2002 as comedy actress for her portrayal of Rachel Green, her fifth nomination for the role in Friends who helped make her “Rachel” haircut famous. “It’s been the best 9 years of my life,” she said from the podium, thanking her colleagues and her then-husband Brad Pitt.
During that relationship and then the one she had with actor Justin Theroux, she had to answer questions from the press about why she didn’t have children or when she planned to have them. In 2022, she revealed that she had tried to be a mother and her attempts through assisted fertilization had failed. Until this month, an interview with the Ohio Republican senator that Donald Trump chose as his vice presidential candidate resurfaced, where he speaks out against childless women.
“In this country, we are governed by a handful of ladies with cats, no children, who feel miserable with their own lives and therefore want the rest of the country to feel miserable too,” was his explosive statement.
Jennifer, at the last Golden Globe Awards ceremony. Photo AFP
The actress’s response was not long in coming and the fight is on
Aniston heard him say these things, and knowing of the politician’s desire to ban assisted fertilization methods, she felt she had to react. She did so from her Instagram account, which has 45 million followers. The programs that cover Hollywood raised her reaction. “Look Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is lucky enough to be able to have her own children one day. I hope she doesn’t need to resort to assisted fertilization as a second option, because you are trying to take that away from her too,” she wrote.
Senator JD Vance thought it appropriate to go all in on Hollywood’s “cat ladies” by referring to her. The problem is that Jennifer likes dogs. She has one that has made her very popular on social media. Clyde is now going to be the protagonist of four animated books written by her, which will begin to be published in October by HarperCollins.
At 30 years old, a new “Friends” fan is born every day
When actor Matthew Perry died in October 2023, Chandler in FriendsJennifer was one of the first to publicly lament the loss suffered by the family of six members without blood ties that was formed in 1994. “It is very painful. Matty was part of our DNA. We were always the six of us,” she lamented.
David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox Arquette, Jennifer Aniston and Matt LeBlanc, at the Emmys ceremony. Photo Reuters
In July, she and Courtney Cox celebrated Lisa Kudrow’s birthday. Rachel, Monica and Phoebe, three friends destined to stay together beyond fiction. They can’t help but be amazed at how, thanks to streaming, the story of those twenty-something friends in Manhattan in the 90s has such an impact on new generations.
Although her chemistry with David Schwimmer on the series made the Rachel and Ross couple famous, Jennifer Aniston says that it took her many years of continuing to be a waitress until she got her first commercial, because she was very bad at auditions. Especially when they asked her to have chemistry with an actor she had just met. She is glad that in The Morning Showwhere she plays TV host Alex Levy, she has to do passionate and carefully crafted love scenes with a friend, actor Jon Hamm.
Although she hopes to win an Emmy for best dramatic actress, she says she is not one to stay with her character, especially if it is dark. That is why when she goes to or comes back from filming the show, she does so listening to the podcast of another of her friends, the actor Justin Bateman, who always seems to make her laugh.
