Did we get played by Jennifer Aniston’s PR yet again? More than a week ago, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux were on vacation in the Bahamas and they got pap’d on the beach. The photos – of Jennifer looking thicker in her baby-area – became a major gossip talking-point and everyone speculated that Aniston was “pregnant at 47” with her “miracle baby.” What followed is what always follows, a series of bell-ringing “SHAME!” denials from Aniston’s rep. So did we get played? Was the controversy designed by Aniston’s PR to get some attention for something? I have no idea. It would be easier to understand if Aniston was promoting a film, but all she’s got to promote is her latest perfume, and it seems like a waste to use a pregnancy-gossip-trap on a perfume release.
What I do know is that the photo-ops keep coming. To be fair to Jennifer, the bulk of the photos of JustJen from the past week have been as they exit or enter their apartment building. As in, the paparazzi have just been staking out the building and catching Jennifer as she exits the building and makes her way to her car, or vice versa. The photos of Jennifer in the wrap miniskirt are from Friday, when Jennifer really wanted to show people that her stomach is flat. I’m also including photos of Jennifer and Justin’s date-night dinner on Thursday. Lainey said Justin reminded her of Jax Teller/Charlie Hunnam. But with the beard and the angles, I think he looks like a beardy Jason Bateman (who is Aniston’s close friend, so… awkward).
So, the message is that Justin and Jennifer are fine. But they’re not pregnant. And they’re in New York. And Jennifer still loves miniskirts and wedges. So there you go.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
At 55 she’ll still be trolling people with miracle babies and hoping they buy this BS.
It seems to me they are trying to distract from the fact (looks like) that she got her lips done……… or is she just pursing her lips??? Sure looks like she got some ‘work’ done!! IJS…IMO
Justin looks like he is sweating his balls off. You know what can fix that, seasonal appropriate clothing.
Lmao!! I think this exact thought every time I see him. Justin summer, summer Justin, have you two met?
“You know what can fix that, seasonal appropriate clothing”
LMAO!!!! So funny!
Lol, makes me uncomfortable just looking at him.
Is he wearing a full wig now? I predicted when I saw her with her then ‘new’ bald boyfriend a couple years ago, that ol’ superficial Aniston wouldn’t be able to abide a baldy and would get her Hollywood hair boy to work. Presto. Lol
LOL best line “You know what can fix that, seasonal appropriate clothing”.
I really don’t think Aniston was trying to play anyone or anything by wearing nice clothes and walking outside her apartment.
As some other posters said here, the woman could be about to be embalmed and a pregnancy story would somehow still crop up!!
I’m more surprised that the endless Depp/Amber stories did not get milked more, with outrageous tabloid front covers about those 2 for another week, instead they’re back to bump stalking Aniston again.
lol..yeah pretty much this.
Yeah, I don’t think that Aniston has to bait the tabloids into baby stories. They tend to do that to some women repeatedly no matter what they do, what they wear, their marital status, their comments on the matter, etc.
Haa
Please.
This has been her M.O. For the better part of a decade and change.
I might agree if I hadn’t seen her in one smock top too many over the years, or strategically attaching her purse to her abdomen like she’s hiding something when she wants speculation to commence.
Are they (tabloids) easy to bait? Of course they are.
But it is very definitely collusion between Aniston, her pr flack and the tablods always has been.
Bloids know the signs and signals when she wants them to go to print. Giving the papz an ambiguous ‘am I or aren’t i? ‘photo op is her signal to them they can run with it for several days lead time before her pr rep denies it to gossipcop.
We know what it does for her, she’s always gotten the most press not through her work but through her perceived loser love life and women always wanting her to compete with her ex’s love story -for them, she’s always in rival mode with the famous movie star ex and his movie star wife and their school bus full of babies and love that is the jolie pitts.
I think this latest 11th hr baby fakery was one last hurrah to come back from a sad sack story line (estranged elderly mom passes and husband who is never in her vicinity) – it changes the narrative back to the hopefulness that was 2007 and she was denying Vince Vaughn weddings and babies, to Oprah.
Yep. Agreed.
I will freely and shamefully admit that I got played by those pics. To me it looked like her torso was curved out from her lower abdomen all the way up to just below her bustline. I always thought food babies were more of a pooch in just the lower abdomen. I got suckered.
I thought she def looked preggo in those pics…(hangs head in shame) Fooled again!!!!
I believe she looked pregnant in those pics, too – absolutely!
These pics don’t look that way so much, but what’s up with carrying that jean jacket in front of her stomach day and night?
It’s HOT in NYC…and very muggy.
WHAT.IS.UP.WITH.THAT?
Hot and muggy? I live in NYC and the weather has been great. Low 80s with a nice cooling breeze.
Thank God the tabloids have no interest me (and thank God I am not interesting). I would be pregnant every time I ate pasta. I doubt she was trolling for pregnancy PR. If I were her I would be sick of hearing about it being pregnant every time I ate more than a spinach leaf.
Exactly. Plus Jennifer is older now, and I’m thinking that (perhaps) her metabolism has slowed down significantly. That does happen. Maybe she has a harder time keeping the weight off. Maybe she doesn’t care about being that thin anymore.
I’m much more horrified that any woman who looks as if she’s gained some weight must automatically be pregnant because that’s what other women looked like when they were pregnant. Well, Jennifer isn’t them. Give it a rest.
If she turns out to be pregnant.. congrats.. if not the year is still young.
she is carrying that big ass bag.. why not stick the jacket in it. She loves to carry carry carry things and holding them in ways that implies she is hiding something. Even when she is not. I would imagine in NYC people like to be more free an unencumbered.
as far as promoting.. well it was announced she has a voice thing in that animated film Storks.. Must have been a late addition since the film is already done..
Posted above before seeing your post – right???
So hot in NYC. No jacket required and yes, she could stick it in her bag if she insists on having it.
I live in a very hot climate and most women carry a sweater or light jacket everywhere because businesses have their AC set so low you need it when you get inside. Carrying it makes it less wrinkly when you get to your destination. I think that’s all that’s going on there.
Meh. Serves people right for being so damn obsessed with this woman’s womb.
I like her outfit with the wrap skirt. It’s sort of J Crew circa 2001, but I like it.
Justin needs to stop with that beard.
I love her skirt. I hope to buy some in other prints and I’m not pregnant!
I just bought some on Amazon. They have silk wraps in different fabric styles pack of 5 for $35. You don’t get to choose the patterns/colors though.
I really like that outfit, too. casual, cute and her legs look great.
Justin looks like he just rolled out of bed and picked up some clothes off his floor, and ran out the door…
“Meh. Serves people right for being so damn obsessed with this woman’s womb.”
Exactly. It’s really bad on this site. I would expect better of people here.
Yeah, exactly. She’s nearly 50. Maybe she just doesn’t want kids?
Yeah. I friggin hate bump watch.
Love the wrap skirt and love the wedges. That’s all I’ve got.
Are they trolling us or we trolling them? What not pregnant woman wants people thinking she is pregnant? She was on vacation and probably enjoying some carbs and wine and her belly reflected that. By those standards I have been pregnant for 20 years.
Exactly. I was mortified when a dude stood up for me on the train, due to ‘my condition’. The horror! And all I had was PMS bloat!
Seriously. Do people think she willed her stomach to poof out and paraded in front of cameras? Or that it was some kind of prosthetic (which it clearly was not)? How exactly are they trolling by hanging around a beach?
Totally agree. Who would want their publicist to come out saying they just * ate too much * in a * private * setting ?! I dont think so. (Of course that could have been handled more delicately.) She did not look happy in the pictures in the follow up after the first stories re: beach. I think this is really a stretch, so to speak.
@Esmom, who wrote: ” How exactly are they trolling by hanging around a beach?”
I don’t think those or the pictures being called out (because quite frankly, she just looks like she’s put on a few extra pounds to me). It was those pictures posted after they returned back to NYC from the beach that are in issue. You know, the ones of her clutching that long coat closed with her purse in front of her stomach (which she probably did because … she’s put on a few extra pounds). It was ‘those’ pictures that made people pounce on the “She’s pregnant!” story-line.
Seriously, the whole idea of her trolling for attention with less than flattering beach photos is ridiculous.
I carry my bag in front of me all the time. Not pregnant or pretending to be so.
and I tend to pull my coat closed when it’s chilly, like it was (at some points, esp in the shade) in the northeast last week.
but don’t you know lucy2?!
because of some weird obsession with the state of her womb, she should NEVER eat too much, or carry a bag in front of her, or wear a long coat (and if she does she must NEVER CLOSE IT, even when she’s a bit chilly) because dang it, she should alter her behavior to keep everyone informed of her personal business and make sure she’s not unintentionally “fooling people” with her belly.
I don’t think she was looking for attention either. For someone so obsessed with how she looks, I bet she was mortified by the pictures as she does look as if she has gained weight or is pregnant. For someone who, I suspect, has been unable to get pregnant, I wonder if all the speculation is painful for her. Sad if it is.
Maybe she’s hiding her weight gain with the bag since everyone stares at her stomach? Most 47 year old women start to thicken in the midsection and it sucks!
I still think she looks heavier in the miniskirt pics, & in the other ones she’s holding her jacket in front of herself. Not that I GAF.
I agree with you, Azurea – it looks as if she’s just put on some weight. I think it suits her. Nevertheless, our weekly rag, Woman’s Day, has her on the cover, and in huge, screaming, text: “YES! JEN’S PREGNANT!” “WORLD EXCLUSIVE”. “FIRST BUMP PICS!”. (Her fit looks painful. Is that a bunion?)
Australian gossip rags are always wrong and have nothing on the covers but ‘Jennifer Aniston/Nicole Kidman/Some 40-something celebrity is pregnant!’ ‘Prince Harry is looking for/has found the one!’ ‘Shocking star split!’ but it’s never actually accurate.
I don’t have an Aniston body BUT I need that skirt in my life. I love it.
You do not throw that kind of cash at the Huvane brothers and not expect the PR game. You just don’t.
I’m getting really sick of this idea that EVERY tabloid story is a celeb trolling. Sometimes it’s PR. Most of the time, it’s just pure tabloid BS. Either they get in pictures that suit a particular narrative, or they hit on a theme that’s a big seller for years.
The gossip rags in Australia have been doing the whole miracle pregnancy thing with Nicole Kidman for years (decades if you count her time with Tom), complete with pictures of her bump (really pictures of her arching her back or wearing something with an empire waist or breathing out real hard while exercising). Given her fertitility struggles and the fact that she probably would have liked more children, do you think she’s behind that? Do we think Brad & Angelina are feeding stories about adopting all over the place to the tabs, or that Miley Cyrus wants everyone to think she’s pregnant and dumped by the lesser Hemsworth every week?
Aniston went on holiday, ate a big meal then went for a swim. If she’d covered up on the beach it would have caused the same rumours. If she hadn’t gone out in NY wearing more form-fitting clothes she could have kept this going for weeks, but since she did she put a halt to the rumours within a day…how is that someone looking for attention? She could have had weeks of all eyes on her, and she shut it down immediately instead.
stop being so darn reasonable.
I so totally agree. Poor woman can’t win for loosing. If she is relaxing on vacation and overeats (as we all do) and gets a little tummy or is bloated, she is perpetuating the pregnancy rumor. If she just happens to cover her belly with a bag or coat (as we all do ) she is perpetuating the pregnancy rumor. She wears loose clothing , or a rain coat because it has been showers every couple of days in NYC (I carry one every day because I can’t tolerate the air conditioning in most places) she is perpetuating the pregnancy rumor. How about the tabloids DO NOT print any more pregnancy stories until she makes a formal announcement? Then we never ever have this discussion again.
You really can’t compare Kidman and Aniston as far as this goes. Kidman is an extremely talented, award-winning actress who can let her work speak for her and does not need to troll us via the paps for additional attention. Since Aniston has no actual acting talent, she has no other recourse than to walk about with her stomach blown out one day and flat the next.
@Kate, who wrote: “Aniston went on holiday, ate a big meal then went for a swim. If she’d covered up on the beach it would have caused the same rumours. If she hadn’t gone out in NY wearing more form-fitting clothes she could have kept this going for weeks, but since she did she put a halt to the rumours within a day…how is that someone looking for attention? She could have had weeks of all eyes on her, and she shut it down immediately instead.”
Yes, but after years and years of this, Jennifer is well aware that all it takes is ‘one’ picture of her grasping a sweater–or in the case of the recent NYC pictures, that long coat–closed with a purse in front of her stomach as an added buffer to get the fan-obsessed “She’s pregnant!” narrative going. She knows it and does it any way, so yes … I’d call that PR Trolling.
So you are saying she should not leave her house? I carry my purse, coats, etc. the same way. Is she supposed to carry her purse and coat behind her back so she is not accused of trolling? Is there a proper way to do this? Also, who would want to be called pregnant or fat constantly and have cameras aimed at her abdomen all the time. I would cover up too.
That’s what I was going to ask, Sophie. How is she supposed to carry her coat? Slung over her shoulder? Wrapped around her neck eurostyle? I carry my coat the way she does: in front of my stomach. I don’t see that as some huge red flag that she’s trolling.
I seriously doubt that at 47, she enjoys the pregnancy speculations. I mean come on…
@Sophie and @ Kitten …
It’s not the fact of Jennifer merely carrying a purse or wearing a sweater/coat that happens to be closed, it’s that she closes the sweater or coat and positions the purse in ways that appear to’ shield’ her stomach from view. “Is She Covering/Hiding a Baby-Bump?” is the usual headline to any “Is Jennifer Finally Pregnant??” gossip accompanied by pictures supporting the headline … like last week. There is a reason for that, and Jennifer does appear to be well aware of it. As many times as her PR Guru has denied ‘pregnant’ rumors based upon cover-up/shielding photos, how could she not?
So you think Aniston needs to walk 24/7 in some kind of Christ-pose with her arms spread to her side so that no fool thinks she may be covering a baby bump?
Does that really sound rational to you??!?!
LOL Tiffany, now I’m picturing that.
Again, maybe that’s just how she likes to carry her bag or coat – especially in the city, and even more so when surrounded by paparazzi.
@Tiffany, who wrote: “So you think Aniston needs to walk 24/7 in some kind of Christ-pose with her arms spread to her side so that no fool thinks she may be covering a baby bump? Does that really sound rational to you??!?!”
Hey, I’m not the numerous media outlets writing the “Is She Covering/Hiding a Baby-Bump?” and “Is Jennifer Finally Pregnant??” gossip articles accompanied by pictures supporting the headline. I’m not the obsessed fan gleefully posting “She looks pregnant, I bet she’s pregnant!” and “Yep, she’s pregnant!” whenever the poor woman gains a few extra pounds. And I am certainly not the obsessed fan analyzing every single photo of Jennifer Aniston looking for signs of a ‘Baby Bump.’
Personally? I think Jennifer Aniston should be allowed to look any way she likes, coat/sweater open or closed, with or sans large purse, without scrutiny. I think it’s sadly telling that her fans assume each puffy stomach they notice on this poor woman is a Baby Bump. But none of that excuses the fact that she sometimes plays the ‘BB’ card for PR.
Damn. That skirt (or at least one like it) is $220 :/
http://www.celebritystyleguide.com/i-1-1-15604/celebrities/jennifer-aniston/isabel-marant-etoile-lyne-wrap-skirt
Damn indeed!!!
It is on sale here https://www.net-a-porter.com/gr/en/product/648536/etoile_isabel_marant/lyne-wrap-effect-printed-cotton-mini-skirt
Still expensive for me though 😞
They’re all sold out of my size too. Boo 🙁
I’m not the biggest Aniston fan on the planet, but damn, I feel for her with this. She’s clearly had self esteem and weight issues in the past (what female hasn’t??) and to feel you need to suck in your stomach all the time….ugh. I don’t know how celebrities leave the house.
@Susan, who wrote: “I’m not the biggest Aniston fan on the planet, but damn, I feel for her with this. She’s clearly had self esteem and weight issues in the past (what female hasn’t??) and to feel you need to suck in your stomach all the time….ugh. I don’t know how celebrities leave the house.”
I feel for her, too. The thing is that she’s said in the recent past (within the last two years) that she’s gained weight because Justin is a huge pasta lover and she joins him in pasta ‘comfort’ eating, but it just sailed over everyone’s head. It ‘is’ sad that the woman can’t relax her eating/fitness routine and gain a pound or two without people holding her to a ‘body must be perfect’ standard. Perhaps she thought at her age she’d be able to just gleefully eat what she wants and get a little rounder at peace. I really, really wish people would not automatically see any puffiness in her stomach area as a sign that she’s pregnant.
I think she looks great, healthy and pretty much content with life (except for bunions on her feet on those wedge pics?). I don’t understand the obsession/hate with her or the baby bump watch, which is ridiculous, but oh well.
I think she looks great too..I guess only a swizzle stick would pass as perfection to some people
She has nice legs
I actually was thinking they are a bit short for a skirt like this. Somehow, it makes her look a bit bulky.
Her waist has been thicker for the last year or two, and I’m sure it’s all age/hormone related. It happens. She’s still gorgeous and healthy.
+1
Serious question- what’s wrong with skirts and wedges? I think they’re cute.
Her and her team have been doing this for YEARS. She loves the attention.