Yesterday we ran a story about some convoluted and frankly dumb comments that Jennifer Aniston made on the red carpet in response to the mini-scandal over Bill O’Reilly disagreeing with a statement she made on single motherhood. I worded the title kind of vaguely, though, and I think a lot of people assumed the story was old as it didn’t get a lot of comments. (As would a story that was titled, say “Aniston makes dumb rambling comments about Bill O’Reilly,” which is basically what she did. I didn’t want people to yell at me though.)

Last night Aniston was on Chelsea Lately. Handler is a buddy of Aniston’s and I’ve noticed that whenever she’s interviewed by someone she knows and/or is comfortable with she does fine and just rolls with the punches. Otherwise she can give kind of halting interviews. She had a lot of fun with Chelsea and together they discussed some of the silly recent rumors we’ve heard about Aniston from the tabloids. I’ve included links to the stories they’re covering in the quoted text below. (Handler’s quotes are in bold.)

You’ve been pregnant like 8 or 9 times this year [in the tabloids]
I think the best was ‘Yes comma, I am having a baby’ [Ed note: that was in OK! and it was an exclamation point not a comma]

You go out to dinner with somebody and then you’re penetrating, or then like you had your trainer living with you so then you’re a lesbian.
Hey that was an original one at least.

So your trainer was living with you?
No!

Because my pilates trainer lives with me and everytime somebody makes fun of me I go ‘Jennifer Aniston lives with her trainer.”
No! That’s sweet!…

Then there was a story about us, that we go work out together at Crunch in West Hollywood, then we have “vodka fueled” fiestas
[Laughs] Why don’t we ever do that?

We will.
Yes, we were going to go out on the town and you decided we were going to go find men together

We were going to go out together and then you blew me off saying you were on a set in Hawaii filming a movie…

What, no “reunion” or “back in touch with Brad” stories? Those are probably bunk too. Aniston also explained how she created her self-named perfume. She said she worked with professionals and smelled different scents for hours at a time until “you’re high as a kite.” When Chelsea asked if Jennifer brought anything in as examples of smells she liked, she said “yeah, I brought like a candle, and a hair serum and a lotion.”

“Cause I read in a magazine you brought a dirty sneaker.”

“Who wrote that is stupid.”

It was a fun interview and I enjoy Aniston when she’s just chatting and isn’t trying to explain some point that’s lost to her. It’s not surprising to hear that so many of the stories about her are false. She only bothers to debunk them when someone asks her or her publicist, but at least she isn’t on Twitter telling us her every move like some celebrities.

The Switch is out this weekend.

In other Aniston news, Kaiser pointed me to these very busted-looking photos of Aniston [via D-Listed], said to be her unretouched Bazaar shoot. She’s normally very pretty, but this light just makes her look awful. I’ll say something nice – she’s not Botoxed to hell at least.

Update: Here are some photos of Aniston outside Good Morning America today. Credit: Fame Pictures

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