Jennifer Aniston sort of says she loves John Mayer, feels protective of him


The full Jennifer Aniston interview with Vogue Magazine, due to come out as a cover story in their December issue, is now available online. Yesterday a few tidbits from the interview leaked but it’s a lot more revealing to read them in context. I think Aniston comes off as much more human and conflicted than the two dimensional character she’s been portrayed as in the tabloids. There seems to be a kernel of truth in some of the gossip reports, though, and she expresses that she’s understandably upset at Angelina Jolie’s public deconstruction of the start of her relationship with Aniston’s ex, Brad Pitt, who famously happened to be married to Aniston when he fell for his co-star. Aniston also reveals that her relationship with John Mayer is deeper than you may believe, at least from her perspective, and says she feels protective of him:

On her tabloid persona: it bothers me but I’m happy and trying to live with it

Woody Allen recently said in an interview that “thoughtful people don’t take the tabloids seriously. They’re basically a form of entertainment.” Aniston knows this, but it still feels to her like a cross to bear. “You basically watch my life,” she says as we eat our chopped salads. “It happens in front of you. And I can protect it and try to control things only to a certain extent. I think what I’m doing now is letting go of the reins a little bit and saying, ‘It is what it is.’ But there is more to me than just a tabloid girl. This whole ‘Poor lonely Jen’ thing, this idea that I’m so unlucky in love? I actually feel I’ve been unbelievably lucky in love. Just because at this stage my life doesn’t have the traditional framework to it—the husband and the two kids and the house in Connecticut—it’s mine. It’s my experience. And if you don’t like the way it looks, then stop looking at it! Because I feel good. I don’t feel like I’m supposed to be any further along or somewhere that I’m not. I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”

On her troubled relationship with her mom and wanting kids

Aniston resists drawing any comparisons [from Marley and Me] to her real life, especially when it comes to wanting children. (When I ask her point-blank about it, she grows visibly irritated. “I’ve said it so many times: I’m going to have children. I just know it.”) But talking about the film does shed some new light on her relationship with her parents. When I mention that she is very good at portraying the bickering and fighting of couples on film, she says, “That is so funny. I just mimic my mother. That woman, when she got mad, was scary. I don’t know if I ever really get mad in real life. It’s what my shrink was saying to me all those years: You need to get mad! I think rage is so ugly. I just think there’s a way to be mad and discuss it.” Famously estranged for more than a decade, Aniston and her mother are in the middle of a slow, careful reconciliation that began after Aniston divorced Pitt. “She’s changed,” says Aniston. “She’s humbled with age. She fell in love. At 73 years old. I’m like, No, no, no, no, no! I don’t want to hear how great the sex is!” She puts her fingers in her ears. “I got, I got, I got it, I got it!” (When I ask after her father, the soap-opera actor John Aniston, she says, “He’s in Topanga Canyon, still on Days of Our Lives—my white-haired papa, handsome, gorgeous man that he is. Always asking me to do something for the Greek community.”)


On He’s Just Not that Into You, in which her character asks on-screen BF Ben Affleck to marry her.

When I tell Aniston that I really enjoyed the film, she expresses genuine surprise. “You did?” It quickly becomes apparent that it’s not necessarily that she doesn’t like the film; it’s the subject matter that makes her squirm. “I liked my story line, but….” She stammers and sputters. “I don’t know. I don’t…like…girls…whining…and complaining…about…wanting a man! I never liked Sex and the City, the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find the Man. It is just not up my alley. I don’t believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love. Somebody once said, Everything you want in the world is just right outside your comfort zone. Everythingyoucouldpossiblywant!”

On Vince Vaughn helping her get through a difficult time

These days, the public fascination with her relationship with Vince Vaughn seems almost quaint. I ask her if there’s anything else to be said about that time. “I call Vince my defibrillator,” she says with genuine affection. “He literally brought me back to life. My first gasp of air was a big laugh! It was great. I love him. He’s a bull in a china shop. He was lovely and fun and perfect for the time we had together. And I needed that. And it sort of ran its course.”


On her relationship with Mayer: it just happened

“Barely knew his music,” she says. “And then we ran into each other a week later, and that was that.” The two began dating—Aniston flew to England to join him on his tour; they took a well-documented vacation to Miami—and partly because of Mayer’s past relationships with Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Love Hewitt, the paparazzi went bananas. Many people questioned Aniston’s judgment; Mayer, after all, is nine years younger and has a bit of a…reputation. To which Aniston says, half kidding, “People need to mind their own business! Did you ever think Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield made sense?” She laughs, knowing that this has the potential for a good parlor game. “Did Susan Anton and Dudley Moore make sense? Wait! I got more! Did…did…did…Madonna and….” She trails off. “I don’t want to get a dog in that fight…but we’ll think of more.” We both laugh, and then she gets more serious. “But you know, it isn’t designed. Love just shows up and you go, ‘Oh, wow, this is going to be a hayride and a half.’ “

On Mayer’s rant to the paparazzi: he had to make it known that he dumped me, sort of says she loves him

“He had to put that out there that he broke up with me. And especially because it’s me. It’s not just some girl he’s dating. I get it. We’re human. But I feel seriously protective of him and us. Trust me, you’ll never see that happen again from that man. And it doesn’t take away from the fact that he is a wonderful guy. We care about each other. It’s funny when you hit a place in a relationship and you both realize, We maybe need to do something else, but you still really, really love each other. It’s painful. There was no malicious intent. I deeply, deeply care about him; we talk, we adore one another. And that’s where it is.”


On Brad Pitt: she’s genuinely happy for him, has made peace with the divorce and had long talks with him

“Well, it never was that bad,” she says, knowing that it will be hard for a lot of people to believe. “I mean, look, it’s not like divorce is something that you go, ‘Oooh, I can’t wait to get divorced!’ It doesn’t feel like a tickle. But I’ve got to tell you, it’s so vague at this point, it’s so faraway in my mind, I can’t even remember the darkness. I mean, in the end, we really had an amicable split. It wasn’t mean and hateful and all of this stuff that they tried to create about Brad can’t talk to Jen and Jen can’t talk to Brad because this person won’t allow it. It just didn’t happen. The marriage didn’t work out. And pretty soon after we separated, we got on the phone and we had a long, long conversation with each other and said a lot of things, and ever since we’ve been unbelievably warm and respectful of each other. Whoever said everything has to be forever, that’s setting your hopes too high. It’s too much pressure. And I think if you put that pressure on yourself—because I did! Fairy tale! It has to be the right one!—that’s unattainable.”

On Angelina Jolie: she says a lot of things off the record, and indicates that she’s more pissed off than she’s admitting

When I ask her about Angelina Jolie, Aniston asks me to turn off the tape recorder for a moment. Suffice it to say, if there is never any love gained in the first place, there can be no love lost. But she did want to put a few things on the record. (Funnily enough, they involve some of the same issues brought up by the recent profile of Jolie in The New York Times, in which she talks about falling in love on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.) She asks me if I ever saw a cartoon that appeared in the New York Post a couple of years ago that depicts Aniston talking on the phone in her kitchen. The bubble over her head says, HI ANGELINA…I DECIDED TO TAKE YOU UP ON YOUR OFFER OF A “SIT-DOWN TALK.”…In the drawing, Aniston is loading a shotgun, and there is a copy of Vogue sitting next to her. (The cartoon was inspired by an interview I did with Jolie for this magazine in January 2007 in which she said she would welcome the opportunity to “sit down” with Aniston.) Someone sent Aniston the cartoon (“the funniest thing I’ve ever seen,” she says), and afterward, she could not resist the urge to buy a copy of Vogue to see what the fuss was about. What really rankled Aniston about the piece was that Jolie felt the need to recount a detailed timeline of exactly how her relationship developed on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, while Aniston was still married to and living with Pitt. “There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening,” says Aniston. “I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss.” Aniston, still galled, shakes her head in disbelief. “That stuff about how she couldn’t wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool.”

[From Style.com/Vogue]

Aniston really opened herself up here, and as many of you pointed out the tabloids are going to be feeding off this for weeks. She did confirm some of the points that the gossip magazine have been making for a while – that she wishes Angelina wouldn’t have said those things and that Mayer talked about their breakup in order to make it known that it was his idea. Maybe in her own way she’s trying to gain control over what is said about her, and assumes that if the tabloids are going to run with things they may as well come directly from her. I like that approach and think it will work well for her.

I don’t think it’s fair the way Aniston has been characterized as “pity party” and it’s refreshing to hear her talk so honestly and kind of shrug her shoulders about everything. She has a lot of movies coming out and her career is in full swing despite the fact that she’s turning 40, which ageist Hollywood considers the twilight of most women’s careers. I hope to see her triumphant and successful in both her personal and professional life. If she knows what’s good for her though, she’ll close the book on the Brad and Angelina chapter in her life. It sounds like she’s already moved on but that some bad feelings understandably linger. She hasn’t said much about it until now and her response seems more reactionary than anything else. I know I don’t blame her.

Photos from Style.com/Vogue

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  1. roller says:

    “Just because at this stage my life doesn’t have the traditional framework to it—the husband and the two kids and the house in Connecticut—it’s mine. It’s my experience. And if you don’t like the way it looks, then stop looking at it!”

    way to go jen! she looks stunning in all the photos especially the last two.

  2. courtknee says:

    all that i know is that i am glad she feels amicable about the divorce and that her and Brad ended it on respectful terms.

    As for that other stuff with the AJ vogue interview… it’s in the past and it doesn’t seem like Jennifer cares all too much. She was just recalling how she felt about it at the time.

  3. Megan says:

    She looks beautiful in the photos, the dog is cute too! She sounds very down to earth to me. I wonder what she said about Angelina when the tape was off?

  4. Kris R says:

    What a great article! She looks fantastic!!! I’m glad to finally hear some positive comments instead of all the bashing.

  5. roller says:

    same here kris. lets keep our fingers crossed

  6. Bros says:

    what a dumb photoshoot. so cliche. is there anything more to her than beaches and tanning? for once, id like to see something avant guarde, something artistic, something less california beach girl, same shit she has been doing forever. god she is such snoooooooze. ok aniston, lets see how many pictures we can take of you where you look the same, and you are grabbing your head. and fake smiling. why is she grabbing her head in every shot?

  7. Shane says:

    Regarding this topic, every day is like the movie “Groundhog Day”.

  8. Susan says:

    She looks STUNNING in those photos. And, she sounds VERY COOL. I once saw an interview with Jim Carrey – about the movie they did together “Bruce Almighty” and he gushed about her — said she was a “really cool hang”.

    She looks so healthy and vibrant and beautiful. AJ is looking more and more like Elvira again.

    Go Jen.

  9. Zoe says:

    She actually seems really sweet in this interview and not nearly as boring and hallmarky as usual. She does seem f’ed up tho. She definitely has anger issues that she can’t express.

    I love Ang, but I have to admit that the explicit timeline of when she and Brad fell in love (when he was still, apparently going home to Jen every night) was uncalled for and at the very least callous and unnecessary. I never understood why she would do that, she seems more thoughtful than that.

    Fine, she has nothing to feel “ashamed” of and she’s probably sick of being labled the scarlet woman when she wasn’t the one who was married, but why be quite so explicit? Clearly, it would be painful not only for JA but, presumably for Brad as well, to remember his marriage disolving, despite the reason… does anyone get this?

  10. Ben says:

    She is stupid for talking about this junk after 4 years. Just show she did not moved on. What do she think Brad is coming back to her after all of these years.
    John said it best “he only snags stupid women.”

  11. Syko says:

    Didn’t we just do this same thread yesterday?

  12. Baholicious says:

    Hi Syko, Happy ‘Groundhog Day’ 😀

  13. Come sta? says:

    Right on Bros! Jen is so ordinary, predictable, quasi- talented and just plain. I’ll give her credit though, she’s had a solid PR team over the years, amplifying her alleged “down-to earth” persona. People eat that up!

    I’m by no means a Brangeloonie, however, it’s been widely reported that Jen is still very friendly and often communicates with Brad’s parents! I find that contradicts her notion of “I’m over Brad, the past is the past…”

    She needs to do something of magnitude professionally to really evolve. There’s nothing left to discuss about her, other than her coping with Brangelina’s escapades, or who she dating.

  14. Greta says:

    Go Jenn! You’re awesome! 😀

  15. Syko says:

    Hi Baholicious, same to you!

    Bros, the grabbing of the head is SEXY! I’m surprised you didn’t recognize it. I didn’t at first either, but after careful study, I’ve decided that’s what it’s about.

    Now some troll will run in here to tell me I have no right to make such a decision and who am I to give my opinion.

    I don’t really want any part of this one. I got involved yesterday only to be frustrated because you can’t make sense to a blithering idiot, so I’m out of here! BADettes, take over!

  16. Michelle says:

    Whatevs to all you haters!!! Waz up with the wack playstation sup??? Totally a Friends addict fo life!!! I love JA. I used to very much so dislike miss AJ but I am getting over it, she does a lot of good in the world which does make up for many of her blunders over the years, INCLUDING her getting involved with a married man, which is NOT cool. Ethics people, ethics!!! This is part of the reason why America is not nearly as great as it once was, the breakdown of the family. Although many of you pointed out that AJ couldn’t have STOLEN BP, I def think she could have gone about it a bit differently. But I digress, I LOVE JA, am starting to like AJ again, and couldn’t care less about BP. All hail Queen Zahara!!!

  17. Atticus says:

    @Ben: She still has to talk about it because that’s all people ever talk about or ask about. She’s been pretty low key about it up until now and that hasn’t helped other people get over it, so maybe she’s speaking up now and saying, fine, this is what I think, now STFU and let’s all get over it. I LOVE JA.

  18. geronimo says:

    😆 So much for yesterday’s story offering closure. Just a new chapter in the never-ending saga of WhoDidWhatToWhom. 😆

  19. Eileen says:

    I love reading this: all these passionate Jen Haters or Angelina Haters throwing out thier opinions like they heard it from the source itself.
    Nothing wrong with speaking your mind-and it’s not like she’s just talking about the past like she can’t let go of it. Someone is asking her the questions and she’s just answering them. I’m not her biggest fan-but why do these two women bring out so much aggression on here?

  20. Celebitchy says:

    The reason there’s another story about this is because there are a lot more details now that the whole article is out. All we had last night were sound bites, and this is the whole article in context with more quotes.

  21. amanda says:

    They bring out so much emotion because some of us have experienced the pain of being cheated on and others have been that other woman.

  22. dr.grrl says:

    blah blah blah….

    another day in the “look at me, i’m not bitter” parade life of JA…. *yawn*

    too bad after all these years she has nothing of value or substance to talk about except for old relationships and lame movies…

    shoot, even her diet hasn’t changed… chopped salads and endorsed water please. bitter greens for a bitter old lady.

  23. Lore says:

    I really like JA. I think it’s to her credit that it took her so long to say anything. AJ won’t shut up. She had this “dis” coming to her. JA was cool to keep quiet so long. Such understatement, such self-control, smart Jen.

  24. dr.grrl says:

    First D.J.: Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don’t forget your booties ’cause it’s cooooold out there today.
    Second D.J.: It’s coooold out there every day. What is this, Miami Beach?
    First D.J.: Not hardly. And you know, you can expect hazardous travel later today with that, you know, that, uh, that blizzard thing.
    Second D.J.: [mockingly] That blizzard – thing. That blizzard – thing. Oh, well, here’s the report! The National Weather Service is calling for a “big blizzard thing!”
    First D.J.: Yessss, they are. But you know, there’s another reason why today is especially exciting.
    Second D.J.: Especially cold!
    First D.J.: Especially cold, okay, but the big question on everybody’s lips…
    Second D.J.: – On their chapped lips…
    First D.J.: – On their chapped lips, right: Do ya think Phil is gonna come out and see his shadow?
    Second D.J.: Punxsutawney Phil!
    First D.J.: Thats right, woodchuck-chuckers – it’s
    [in unison]
    First D.J.: GROUNDHOG DAY!
    Second D.J.: GROUNDHOG DAY!

  25. Susan says:

    Her diet is healthy – hence her INCREDIBLE body. Wish I looked that good…

  26. elisha says:

    Good write up, C|B. You didn’t have to explain yourself, I’m glad you rehashed it once the entire article came out.

    JA looks so good in all the pics EXCEPT the cover photo. They should’ve picked another one. And whutta bikini bod!

  27. Bros says:

    ok Crib, Ill go take a hike, right after you realize that all she has going for her is the fact that her husband dumped her. that is the only thing that keeps her relevant. the only thing she is in the news for is failed relationships.

    thats why she is talking about this 4 years later, like it just happened or something. its the only interesting thing that ever happened to her.

  28. dr.grrl says:

    susan….. there is more to a balanced diet than just lettuce!

    you have personal trainers, cellulite treatments, lip rejuvenation, fake tans, and nose jobs to thank for her “incredible” look!

  29. dr.grrl says:

    @ bros..

    maybe it’s a toomah?! or all the other voices in her head won’t quiet down! :mrgreen:

  30. Michelle says:

    Don’t hate dr. grrl. That’s the MO in Hollywood. She still looks great! If I could afford all that I would considerit, minus lip crap, cause that’s just wack!!

  31. Syko says:

    I don’t buy the lip treatments either, because if she’d had them, she wouldn’t have such thin, hard-looking lips.

    I just bet that, lifetime of chopped salads or no, she sneaks off in the middle of the night for a greasy bacon cheeseburger from time to time.

    ***babe, I got you babe***

  32. Michelle says:

    You know what I could totally like AJ soo much more if it weren’t for all of you BADettes. You pepes are as one sided as they come. The girl in yesterdays post said it best that you guys rag on Sienna Miller but AJ is ok, same concept. Although miss jolie shouldn’t be treated like she threw boiling water on a baby over the whole matter! JA may be a bit laid back for all of you that appreciate AJ’s way of creating controversy (whether she means to or not). Can’t everyone just agree that everyone has their own taste and die hard JA fans aren’t gonna get on board witht he AJ fans and so forth??? Wow just realized that JA and AJ are the same backwards, just like their personalities I guess!

  33. Kaiser says:

    Don’t go, Syko! I love you! The Pity Party won’t be the same without you!

    The Mayer part totally confused me. So she’s saying she “understands” why he had to go out and tell the paps that he dumped her, and now everything is cool between them? 🙄

    And while *still* talking about Brad, Vince, etc, in the same breath, she bitches about SATC and how it portrays women who define their lives around men?

    I respectfully disagree with your assessment, CB. All I see is another immature, petty hissy fit, another Pity Party.

  34. Carrie says:

    Agree Elisha – why would they go with that picture of her in the red dress for the cover when there were far more flattering ones? She looks kinda hatchet-jawed in that one, and not very relaxed.

  35. dr.grrl says:

    you must be new to the site michelle!

    oil meet vinegar!!

  36. susan says:

    Aw Kaiser – give it up already. It is obvious that Jennifer owns this one. Not that I think that pity parties are bad but this was not a pity party. She is living a good life and ready to really say what she thinks. she talks about men in her life but does not let them define her like some women do. Good for her. You need to move on – Jen has. This article is great! Jen has truly moved on and is back and a bit bitchy. Good for her. She probably should have done this sooner rather than let the tabloids give it her her.

  37. KERRI says:

    @dr.grrl: HILARIOUS!!! One of my favorite movies.

    Here’s one for you, can you guess it?
    Jennifer, you’re always on the run now.
    Running after somebody, you gotta get him somehow.
    I think you’ve got to slow down before you start to blow it.
    I think you’re headed for a MENTAL BREAKDOWN, so be careful not to show it.
    You really don’t remember, was it something that you said?
    Are the voices in your head calling, Jennifer?
    Jennifer, don’t you think you’re fallin’? If everybody wants you, why isn’t anybody callin’? You don’t have to answer, Leave them hangin’ on the line, oh-no-nobody’s calling Jeenniiifer!
    Jennifer, I think we’ve got your number,
    I think we’ve got your alias that you’ve been living under.
    Oh Jennifer, how’s it gonna go down?
    Feel your innocence slipping away, don’t believe it’s comin’ back soon

    A little tweeking, but the Mental Breakdown is quite obvious. When one obsesses over another’s happy love-life, it’s bound to take effect on the brain. This desperate clown is obsessed with B&A and CAN’T move on. It’s pathetic and embarassing! 🙁 😥 ❗

  38. Kaiser says:

    Susan, what part of the interview shows that she’s moved on? The part where she whines about an interview Angie did two years ago? The part where she whines *in detail* about Angie discussing details?

    And on and on. But whatever. If the great uniting of The Pity Party and The Dark Dick Rot is the greatest love story of an era, so be it. 😆

    Sidenote: That cover shot really is horrible – her body looks great in most of the pics, but-her-face…

  39. mojoman says:

    Gah! Deja Vu all over again. Can we all just get along?

  40. Michelle says:

    Not new, actually old, I stopped commenting for a while cause I kept being put into moderation. I am no longer being blocked so I am quite thrilled and must share my opinion with all of celebitchy!!!

  41. brianne says:

    At the end of the day, you gotta like your face and body. If you have the resources to “fix” the things that you don’t like i.e. surgery,or a trainer or whatever than why not? So much hate! If youre happy with genetics have given you than great, why hate on somebody else who may not be?

  42. Bodhi says:

    That cover shot is AWFUL! Her body is banging, but that is a terrible photo of her face. Cute puppy though.

    At least she is displaying a mote of a personality in this interview, unlike past ones. I do find her reference to SATC interesting, although she seems to have missed the point of the show.

    He had to put that out there that he broke up with me. And especially because it’s me.

    And I still have no freaking clue why in the hell she got back together with Mayer. That quote seems like enough reason to never talk to him again!

  43. dr.grrl says:

    my bad michelle! welcome back!

    fyi, to those that think i’m hating on JA for her “look”, WRONG~ there are many a thing i could hate on her for…

    my point is (was) simply that she looks great because of all the help she has in her life including money to fix flaws. for an average person, to compare yourself to an airbrushed photo of a celeb who probably has more means than you to look good is irrational!

    infact, it’s the obsession with high profile celebs that is creating even deeper pits of low self esteem in men and women alike. because of this, we lost sight of what really matters for the ideas that we must conform to certain beauty ideals.

    (and my genes are great, but my self-esteem is shite)

  44. L says:

    Has Brad Pitt ever addressed anything about the situation, even remotely, in an interview? He is the person whose feelings would be most interesting to hear. I wonder why the tabloids never give him any heat on the matter.

  45. Kaiser says:

    Bodhi – Right? The Mayer part is *totally* confusing, especially taken with her pseudo-feminist musings on SATC…

  46. Eileen says:

    I know what it’s like to be cheated on and I definitely side with Jennifer on that one-but she’s not my friend or family. It happens everyday to normal people…or worse they get beaten up…I wish some of the people on here would get crazy mad and put their energy helping them than the energy spent hating women we don’t even know. And before I get crazy comments back-I AM involved in helping. http://www.aardvarc.org/dv/states/gadv.shtml
    Let’s do some positive to combat all this negative people-send in $5 in the name of Jenny A. if it makes you feel better. Ok-I’m off my soapbox. Continue with the crazy ranting.

  47. geronimo says:

    @Bodhi – it’s the weak note! She can talk all she likes about being in a great place etc etc but that she’s happy to put up with Mayer’s shit tells a very different story.

    The best revenge is living well and living well does not include harboring bitter feelings for your ex-husband’s girlfriend while letting your ex-husband completely off the hook. That speaks volumes.

  48. Bros says:

    i think its really funny that people think the covershot is the worst of her face. its the only one where she is looking straight into the camera with no hands or hair in the way, full on. thats her freaking face people. it looks ugly because she is ugly! very simple.

    kaiser, yah, i was like, ok aniston, you get why he had to do that, because you’re not just some girl that broke up with him, you’re superspecial and awesomely famous and talented jennifer aniston, so of course, you being this HUGE, mayer had no choice but to make it look like he did it. because you arent just some girl. uuuuuuuuuhhhh god i wish she could find something else to talk about
    does she have any interests? besides the dog. because dogs never dump you, and love unconditionally, we get it.

    hobbies? interesting stories? hopes and dreams?

    no

    salad and failed relationships.

  49. fancyfree says:

    the posts about JA/AJ on this site are rarely balanced, because everyone has their preferences and tend to be blind to everything else but I am glad this aticle is a little less biased. The comments, however… 😕 (tutti sono pazzi!)

  50. Eileen says:

    On another note: YAY I’m like the cool kids now with my Gravatar! Woo hoo! It took me long enough to figure out how to do it!

  51. Eileen says:

    Whoa-fancy free-when I read your comment I saw that there initials are the same-reversed-like their persons. Do di do dewwwww (que twilight zone music). 😯

  52. Kaiser says:

    Bros – Dogs, salads, failed relationships and …???

    You totally forgot about YOGA. I bet you $10 that CB is saving the BREAKING NEWS “Aniston Talks About Yoga” for another post! 😆

    Agree with you & Geronimo about The Dark Dick Rot. Speaks volumes.

  53. KERRI says:

    Yo, got a movie to promote
    Need some new dope
    Gotta get a new line
    Before my career goes bye-bye
    The only thing I have Is Angelina and Brad
    So let’s bring up the past
    And get my fans back quick and fast
    Yo!

  54. geronimo says:

    😀 @ Exclusive ‘I do Yoga’ Story!

    Hey, speaking of hobbies and other activities, wasn’t she supposed to be involved with some childrens’ obesity awareness thing (post a few days ago)? Surely that would be something she’d talk about in an interview about her life and the things she’s interested in…unless of course it’s not true…

    Or is it still to come in the next breathtaking installment? 😉

  55. Yourself says:

    This an interview to promote a movie. It may come as a surprise but most people to charity and do not use it to promote their movies. Jen is a great girl and I hope she is truly happy. She has done nothing wrong. I don’t know why people would demonise her. I wish her the best.

  56. sandy says:

    I cracked up that she compared herself to claudia schiffer and susan anton!
    sorry jen, but you are the david copperfield and dudley moore.

  57. KERRI says:

    I want an Oscar so bad
    But my roles are pure sh#t bags
    Maybe I’ll make a Yoga tape
    But my thighs have met lipo and that you can’t fake
    What can I do to stir up some buzz?
    Sigh, I don’t know, my head’s in a fuzz!
    Yo, word to my dwindling fans:
    I’ll come up with something that’s really “BAD” 👿 😈

  58. jeannified says:

    Oh, but to be a fly-on-the-wall, and to hear what she said about Angelina :off-the-record!”

  59. Bros says:

    kerri, HILARIOUS

    Yourself: so I guess the best option, since she is apparently anti-talking about charity to promote a movie, is to bitch about her relationships? and whine about un-coolness?

    how in the world is that a good strategy?

  60. She'sAFake says:

    Perez Hilton just busted Aniston for lying about not knowing what was going on between Brad and Angie – BECAUSE HER FRIENDS TOLD VANITY FAIR IN 2005 THAT ANISTON WAS FULLY AWARE BECAUSE BRAD TOLD HER!!! Lying ho. I always knew one day she’d flap her gums too much and get caught in her lies. Or is she now going to claim the VF misquoted her? Aniston has a bad habit of doing that every time she lies to a publication and gets caught.

    Check out Perez’s comparison of her VF 2005 quotes to her lies in the current Vogue – she’s sooooooo BUSTED!

    ~~~Jennifer Aniston Caught Lying!

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  61. Yourself says:

    Perezhilton???pulleeez!

    Oh and by the way celebitichy, thank you for being fair in your assessment of the situations. Many times you are biased like Angeina’s ardent fans.

    Even now, they are claiming JA never lets the relationship go. A couple of weeks ago, Angelina was stirring up controversy talking about meeting Pitt. None of these so called fans asked her to let things go.

    Lighten up Brangelina fans, just tell your saintly idol to stop rocking the boat, she will drown one of these days. It is not like the world is enormoured with her. Most people hate her anyway. Her fans are too aggressive too. God they can put you off her.

  62. Bodhi says:

    The only people who refer to Angelina Jolie as a saint are the ones who rabidly hate her. I know none of us BADettes think the woman is a saint

  63. Come sta? says:

    Kerri= uproarious giggles.

  64. Syko says:

    I certainly don’t, Bodhi. I think most of us have done things we later wish we hadn’t done. Angelina is at least honest about hers.

    With these rabid Anistonians, though, if you even say anything more pleasant that “that f**king ho needs to die” then you’re a loonie. Ah well, whatever.

  65. Shane says:

    Dr. Grrl – thanks for the Groundhog Day dialogue – love it!!

  66. Vermillion says:

    This was an interview. It was clear in the repsonses that she was not bringing up these topics herself, simply answering the questions asked her. Even the article she brought up was in response to being asked about her feelings on the matter. So this idea of her “whining” and still obsessed with Brad is ridiculous.

    And considering her issues with expressing herself (especially expressing her anger), having tabloids pick at every. SINGLE. LITTLE. THING. about her has really got to drive her up a wall, more than any failed relationship, and she really doesn’t have nowhere to turn, seeing as how her “friends” keep blabbing crap to the press.

    I can’t say if she is really over it or not. But from reading this article, it seems more like the interviewer (and the audience they represented) were the ones still obsessing over Brad and Angelina.

    Everyone still concerned about this crap on either side is a goddamn loony. Esepcially if you ahve been cheated on, since now you are projecting your failed relationship on people that realistically you don’t know from Adam.

    It tickles me that, while fully acknowledging tabloids would say or do just about anything to get readers, people still accept them as the gospel truth. Conveintly, the “true” ones are the ones that just confirm that person’s biases.

    I get reading this stuff for entertainment value, but actually making moral judgments on people form thsi stuff? Really disappointing.

  67. KERRI says:

    To “That Man” — (you’re pet-name from your owner):

    Here’s a great title for a song that’s sure to be a #1 hit (unless, of course, the gag order you signed prohibits you from writing songs about the looney):

    “SHE DRIVE’S ME CRAZY”, oh wait, that title has been take by Fine Young Cannibals. Okay, here’s an original “MY GIRL IS TAKING THE LAST TRAIN TO BELLEVUE”

    AH! No need for lyrics, the title of the song says it all.:D 🙂

  68. geronimo says:

    @vermillion – seriously now? Are you really suggesting that JA didn’t set the agenda here and that she didn’t dictate, down to the very last detail, what would and wouldn’t be discussed and included?? Magazines like Vogue (as distinct from the tabs) depend heavily on celebrity interviews, they will bend over backwards to get them and will most certainly allow the celeb to dictate terms and conditions. This is just basic PR.

    This is 100% JA controlled. In the same way that AJ’s interviews are 100% AJ controlled. In the same way that ALL A-list celebrities control what they will and won’t talk about. Otherwise, these interviews would not happen.

    Let’s try and stay on Planet Reality.

  69. She'sAFake says:

    Hey Yourself –

    Don’t snark at Perez Hilton. All he did was take Aniston’s quotes from her 2005 Vanity Fair interview and compare them to what she claims in the new interview. The comparison CLEARLY PROVES SHE’S LYING. Her friends told VF that Aniston knew about Pitt’s growing friendship with Jolie BECAUSE PITT TOLD HER HIMSELF. Now she claims she didn’t know some things? And she says Jolie gave too many deets in her Jan 2007 Vogue interview. Only Pereze pulls Jolie’s quote directly from the magazine and you can see that Jolie didn’t give details OR a “timeline”. Aniston pulled that out of her azz just like she does other parts of her new interview. If you want to spend your life being blind to Aniston’s famewhoring and lying, then be my guest. 😀 She tells so many lies she can’t keep them straight. Eventually she’s going to step in a big steaming pile and I’ll be right there laughing at her sad clown face! 😆

  70. Cinderella says:

    Jen’s photos are usually hit or miss. The swimsuit shot is really good.

    Ang’s photos haven’t been that spectacular lately (six kids will do that), but over her career, her photos have been absolutely breathtaking.

    It doesn’t matter what length her hair is or how much makeup she’s wearing. It’s just sickening how well she photographs.

  71. monica says:

    I love her! I don’t think that she sounds bitter. I think people want her to sound bitter & people want her to be unhappy but I just don’t see that. I see a woman who went through a divorce, is dating but it’s all in the public eye getting scrutinized for every little thing that she does. I don’t see the big deal. We’ll never know the extent of the relationships she has. No matter what each party says, we’ll have our own opinions but it doesn’t change anything.
    this site has gotten better about it’s biased news-thank you celebitchy. i know that i also stopped coming for awhile due to the excessive hate from both sieds but especially the BADette types.

  72. Come sta? says:

    @ Sad- I WAS THINKING THE SAME DAMN THING, regarding:

    Aniston thinks Brad is amazing, admirable, and she’s PROUD of him. Would someone explain to me, why a woman who was cheated on, and dumped for another woman..think flowery wonderful things about a man, if in fact he did THAT to them??

  73. debra77 says:

    I’m not hating, but please explain how what Angelina said is bad, and John Mayer dissing her in the press is understandable. I don’t get it. Words spoken 2 years ago uncool, a media press event is just something he had to do, and she understood. Help, I need to understand this.

  74. NotBlonde says:

    Most of you are ridiculous. The only one making real sense is Vermillion.

    Vogue is Vogue. They ask the questions they want to ask. If a celebrity doesn’t want to answer them, they’ll get another one. Vogue isn’t some dime-store rag hoping and praying that a celebrity will deign to grace their pages. Vogue is a magazine celebs beg to be in. Jennifer Aniston hasn’t talked about Brad or Angelina in a really long time. The interviewer asked her questions and she answered them. The interviewer probably asked her a million other things (they usually get about 3 hours of tape) but cut out the “uninteresting” parts and kept what sells the magazine.

    I think this whole “Jen is bitter” thing is tabloid nonsense created by the magazines to sell themselves, same as they create the “Brad and Angelina are breaking up” story every few weeks.

  75. vdantev says:

    John Mayer needs to remove the splinter from his own eye before talking sh*t about AJ. And by splinter I mean penis, and by eye I mean any woman’s vagina beside the woman he’s with at the moment.

  76. I just don’t believe that any sane, rational person would possibly (unless they’re lying to themselves) blame Jolie more than Pitt. Both were equally “at fault” for their love affair… I think that it’s easier, though, to externalize the pain and blame it all on Jolie. Hence, the total awe and admiration for Pitt. Jenn’s not quite as happy as she tries to make us think that she is.

  77. lindsay says:

    Wow what a great read. I really like Jennifer… she’s great.

  78. lindsay says:

    What angelina said was bad because she was saying she was in love with some1’s husband & that it was MUTUAL … NOT AFTER BRAD & JEN BROKE UP. Tell me if you married someone you wouldn’t be hurt to find out that while u were still with them they were going to work and LOVING IT?? U wouldn’t be pissed off? I WOULD! Angelina is a dirty ho bag.

  79. Bodhi says:

    @lindsay: Don’t you think that Jen would have figured all that out before? Its not like every damn breathe either woman has taken in the past 4 years hasn’t been over analyzed to death

  80. Buttercup says:

    Some nice shots of JA here, love that cute doggy too, awww.

    I still wish that JA had come out with all of this stuff about BP/AJ 4 years ago, that way it would have put the whole triangle thing to rest by now, but by coming out with this stuff now it just doesn’t look good IMO.
    Still, she has opened up more than she ever has before and I give some kudos to you Jen, keep it up, you seem 10% more interesting to me now 😉 (as opposed to feeling ambivalent/boredom).

    I think the only way for this mess to die down is for AJ and BP to get married, thus making BP’s first marriage over and done with for good. And for JA to continue to live her life as she sees fit, whether that be the fans choice of settling down with a nice man and having 2.4 kids OR just continuing dating her way around Hollyweird, tanning etc forever.

    Whatever happens with the trio of JA/BP/AJ I hope they all get their ‘happily ever after’.

  81. RAN says:

    Angelina may have been a ‘ho’ in people’s eyes in the past, but to all intents and purposes, the woman has remained in a monogamous relationship with someone other than her brother for many years. Back in the ‘making out with her brother days’, I may have agreed with you, but the words ‘ho’, ‘whore’, ‘tramp’ no longer apply.

    As for the rest of the comments…I’m all commented out – nothing to say really. Just sitting back and rolling my eyes at the more outrageous ones. For those of you calling this woman ugly, and picking apart every aspect of her appearance – please post a picture of yourself – I’m very interested in the comparisons.

  82. popo says:

    I conclude that she was ready to say something now. It really makes no difference if you think she should have done it sooner. The article she was referring to was 2 years ago not 4. And it was so very little she did say. Just a little taste of how she felt. Can’t you deal with that. No big thing. She felt is was inappropriate to talk about all her feeling about Brad while Brad was still married. In like trashy sort of rude. sort of like no manners. And on this one I agree with Jen. It was and always will be wrong. Now a person brought up right know this. As far as her being ugly . I wonder if that makes her any less entitled to her pain or hurt. Is that what some of you ar implying. Because if that is the case then I feel really sorry for you. Not nice people are you? mean spirited just like your idol.

  83. Aspen says:

    Finally…some photos that do her justice.

    She is so freaking pretty! They just don’t take pictures of her that way, most of the time. I never understood that.

  84. chick says:

    i have to admire how she uses her buckets of hair to hide the fugness of her face. clever Jen. pathetic but clever.

  85. PJ says:

    To Debra77: Angelina was not cool because she publicly revealed details about her and Brad falling in love during “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”–things that Jennifer didn’t know about that were painful to hear. Guess Brad wasn’t honest with Jennifer, but most men don’t tell their wives about it when they’re starting an affair.

    John Mayer didn’t diss Jennifer. He said he broke up with her, but he also called her the smartest woman he’s ever met, etc. The video is on YouTube if you want to see it.

    I’d love to hear Brad’s story. I think he fell in love with Maddox. Angelina can’t give him babies fast enough, but how long can that last? She makes it pretty clear the kids are what matters to her most–not Brad.

  86. Embee says:

    Love the pic with the dog–cool shirt.

    Also, I like how she’s enjoying a life that isn’t always making a huge splash. It makes her more relate-able as a Hollywood type. Face it, mostly we all just go to work, have our relationships, deal with our parents and call it a day. Hopefully with a great dog to give us a snuggle at night.

    I find her compelling/attractive because I relate to her issues and struggles. I don’t relate as well to someone who “falls in love with” someone who she knows is married, then gets pregnant with him while he’s still married and proceeds to build a family of 6 in only 4 years while living in LA, Namibia, NOLA, France and Germany.

    I am hopelessly pedestrian, I suppose.

  87. anti-tox says:

    I bet Courtney and David are groaning in pain somewhere because this is going to be the main topic of conversation for weeks to come as Jennifer reads blogs and compares your comments to what she meant to say.. it WILL NEVER END UNTIL WE ALL HATE ANGELINA AND BRAD RETURNS!

  88. Trashaddict says:

    If this photoshoot was recent, so much for the twin theories. Can you say “airbrushed”?

  89. Lilly Kane says:

    “When I ask her about Angelina Jolie, Aniston asks me to turn off the tape recorder for a moment.”

    yes. that’s real class. like in the “I’m gonna rant and I’m gonna let you know I ranted but I’m not really gonna say anything cause, you know, I’m classy”

    were it not for that Vogue sentence I might have actually believed what she’s saying. but it’s clearly just another publicity stunt.

  90. Mario says:

    I thought I was the only one who got bored with Jennifer 😕

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