Jennifer Aniston has written an op-ed for the Huffington Post. It seems to be a delayed reaction to those photos of Aniston looking pregnanty on vacation from last month. There was widespread speculation that Aniston was “pregnant at 47” with a “miracle baby,” which is honestly par for the course when it comes to Jennifer Aniston. Still, her rep denied the pregnancy rumor yet again, for the millionth time. Following that speculation, Aniston stepped out all over the place in NYC for weeks, and paparazzi got pap stroll pics of her seemingly every day in a two week span (often while she just happened to be carrying SmartWater). It did feel like Aniston wanted to be seen, and she wanted us to talk about how she definitely wasn’t pregnant. I thought the whole incident was over, or at least over until she had something new to promote. But it’s not over. Aniston’s HuffPo op-ed is about the tabloid media and how she’s fed up with all of it. You can read the full piece here. Here’s part of it:
Let me start by saying that addressing gossip is something I have never done. I don’t like to give energy to the business of lies, but I wanted to participate in a larger conversation that has already begun and needs to continue. Since I’m not on social media, I decided to put my thoughts here in writing. For the record, I am not pregnant. What I am is fed up. I’m fed up with the sport-like scrutiny and body shaming that occurs daily under the guise of “journalism,” the “First Amendment” and “celebrity news.”
If I am some kind of symbol to some people out there, then clearly I am an example of the lens through which we, as a society, view our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, female friends and colleagues. The objectification and scrutiny we put women through is absurd and disturbing. The way I am portrayed by the media is simply a reflection of how we see and portray women in general, measured against some warped standard of beauty.
…The message that girls are not pretty unless they’re incredibly thin, that they’re not worthy of our attention unless they look like a supermodel or an actress on the cover of a magazine is something we’re all willingly buying into. This conditioning is something girls then carry into womanhood. We use celebrity “news” to perpetuate this dehumanizing view of females, focused solely on one’s physical appearance, which tabloids turn into a sporting event of speculation. Is she pregnant? Is she eating too much? Has she let herself go? Is her marriage on the rocks because the camera detects some physical “imperfection”?
I used to tell myself that tabloids were like comic books, not to be taken seriously, just a soap opera for people to follow when they need a distraction. But I really can’t tell myself that anymore because the reality is the stalking and objectification I’ve experienced first-hand, going on decades now, reflects the warped way we calculate a woman’s worth.
This past month in particular has illuminated for me how much we define a woman’s value based on her marital and maternal status. The sheer amount of resources being spent right now by press trying to simply uncover whether or not I am pregnant (for the bajillionth time… but who’s counting) points to the perpetuation of this notion that women are somehow incomplete, unsuccessful, or unhappy if they’re not married with children.
Here’s where I come out on this topic: we are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone. Let’s make that decision for ourselves and for the young women in this world who look to us as examples. Let’s make that decision consciously, outside of the tabloid noise. We don’t need to be married or mothers to be complete. We get to determine our own “happily ever after” for ourselves.
I have grown tired of being part of this narrative. Yes, I may become a mother some day, and since I’m laying it all out there, if I ever do, I will be the first to let you know. But I’m not in pursuit of motherhood because I feel incomplete in some way, as our celebrity news culture would lead us all to believe. I resent being made to feel “less than” because my body is changing and/or I had a burger for lunch and was photographed from a weird angle and therefore deemed one of two things: “pregnant” or “fat.” Not to mention the painful awkwardness that comes with being congratulated by friends, coworkers and strangers alike on one’s fictional pregnancy (often a dozen times in a single day).
From years of experience, I’ve learned tabloid practices, however dangerous, will not change, at least not any time soon. What can change is our awareness and reaction to the toxic messages buried within these seemingly harmless stories served up as truth and shaping our ideas of who we are. We get to decide how much we buy into what’s being served up, and maybe some day the tabloids will be forced to see the world through a different, more humanized lens because consumers have just stopped buying the bullsh-t.
I agree, in a general sense, that tabloids perpetuate a ridiculous, pearl-clutchy, 1950s-era standard of relationships, marriage, beauty and more. I also believe that “the well is dry” when it comes to many tabloid narratives, many of which surround Aniston’s personal life. Do we need another story speculating about her womb? Of course not. Do women need to have children and/or be married to be complete human beings? No, and she makes a very valid and important point about women’s choices and the narrative surrounding that.
As I was reading this, I had a sense of “right message, wrong messenger.” Aniston has spent years dealing with the aftermath of the narrative she herself pushed in the media (which the tabloids picked up after she led them down the primrose path): that she was the wronged woman, that she was “the good girl,” that she was the victim. She invited us to speculate about her love life and her womb the moment she cried about all of it to Vanity Fair in 2005. She did a People cover,”Five Years After Brad,” in which she said “People… just want to see me as a mom and married and barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And I just want to say, ‘Everybody, relax! It’s going to happen.‘” (Later she changed her perspective on children, which is understandable.) If she didn’t want us to talk about her then-engagement to Justin Theroux, why did she organize those ring-debut photos?
Also as she builds up product endorsements and lifestyle/beauty brands, increasingly what she’s selling is her lifestyle. Either she just happened to be followed to the Bahamas by paparazzi or she set up and posed for those bikini photos on the beach. She didn’t deserve the body scrutiny by any means, but she may have arranged for the photos to get out there. That’s the celebrity-media-fan/consumer ecosystem. If you’re selling your life as aspirational, people want to know about your life. Even Gwyneth Paltrow recognizes that.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
“We don’t need to be married or mothers to be complete. We get to determine our own “happily ever after” for ourselves.”
This is my fav part.
Right message, wrong messenger. Or maybe not. Maybe she’s regretting the years she’s spent feeding into just that narrative and she’s trying to finally turn the message around.
Her message is good, but she’s a disingenuous ahole, at best. She actively courts paparazzi and tabloid involvement. She wouldn’t be nearly as relevant today without their coverage, considering how mediocre her career is at present.
You can’t actively set up pap strolls and have your publicist release tips to tabloid mags, then complain about how you don’t always like the way message gets spinned. I mean you can, but it makes you a giant hypocrite.
Wrong messenger. Her career was launched by a good haircut.
Interesting she talks about a “warped standard of beauty”.I wonder if the use of plastic surgery(botox,fillers,surgery) has contributed to that “warped standard of beauty”.
Yep. I’m definitely on team right message, wrong messenger. She makes some amazing, salient points. But there are also moments when it reads like she only wrote this essay because she’s mad that people are speculating that she’s pregnant– in that it insinuates that she’s fat. It comes off superficial, which isn’t a stretch with JA because she usually comes off as a pretty superficial person. JMO.
She’s upset with attention that makes her look bad; if everything that was written about her was to her benefit, she’d eat it up with a spoon. I’m sure she did hate those vacation “food baby” photos – they weren’t terribly flattering. However, it’s a day late and a dollar short to be complaining about the tabloids, as her career for the last 12 years had been built on the publicity they provide. Plus, she keeps it going by continuing to dangle that “maybe baby” carrot in front of the media – “maybe one day I will become a mother.” She could shut it down in a heartbeat if that’s what she truly wanted. A decent message from a disingenuous source.
I’m Kinda Loving we all see through the B*llshit, I Mean GREAT message this is as much as i’m ever gonna like her but….you’re the WRONG guy for the Job, sweets, of all people, you! LOL
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i totally agree with the message but live by the sword die by the sword. she kept herself relevant by utilizing this kind of press.
Yes, absolutely!
My problem with the whole “she fed the narrative” idea, is that it is based on the assumption that the tabloids wouldn’t have speculated about her family planning if only she didn’t do or say certain things. I think that is completely wrong. She was one of the biggest stars 15-20 years ago, and she was married to another huge star. The speculation happened because she was female, married and in her childbearing years.
Tiffany, exactly. The idea that she concocted and has fed a “womb watch” and/or “victim” narrative all these years is ridiculous.
Did she feed into it? Are you all sure? How do you know?
My problem with this is that it has never stopped. It’s still happening after more than a decade. Speculation is natural, stupid as it is, but the ongoing, frankly super boring cycle of “to baby or not to baby” is not natural. It seems pushed at every opportune (for her) moment. If this was 10 years ago I’d say leave her alone. But since she’s been the one behind dredging it up repeatedly (or else who pays that publicist?) I can’t defend her too strongly. Be careful what you wish for, because she’s gotten it in spades.
I just watched her Smart water ad on YouTube where she mocked being pregnant with triplets.Cute
Of course she fed into this. Mind you, she didn’t take this tack when she was with Tate Donovan, but when she landed Brad Pitt, she went with this narrative, big time. And she managed to continue with this narrative after she got ditched.
NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS is a pretty effective phrase, but only if you mean it. She should’ve said that the entertainment press and she sure as $h*t should have said that to her so-called fans, who twisted themselves into knots, making anything Aniston does a ‘Take that, Brad and/or Angelina!’
That’s great @lee that she’s saying that now…but she once said the exact opposite that she *felt more complete when she had a partner, and was half of a whole.* She literally said the opposite of what she’s saying now.
It’s good that she’s evolved and has grown (though I think she was 40 when she said it) and is no longer the woman who got duped and dumped by John Mayer twice (nothing says desperate to be in a relationship more) – but let’s not get carried away with praise. She’s a big contradiction.. She also fibs.
This is looking more and more like a set up to give her more gravitas. A part two of a kind of ‘Cake Oscars walk – a pleading to The Industry Powers that Be to please take me seriously as a new Johnny come lately elder stateswoman,’ effort.
That would explain the extremely close candid pics, the unflattering and the almost deliberate poses.
Almost like Stephen Huvane wrote this piece shortly before she even went on vacation.
“Yes, I may become a mother some day”
Right there she ruined it by keeping hope alive. She could have shut it down but she didn’t.
What did she ruin? She said she may, she didn’t say I will. The choice is hers alone not yours or mine nor the media to decide. She wrote her a great essay.
At first I was disappointed she included that line as well but the more I thought about it I realized it’s inclusion is important. She may adopt or whatever, she may not. Why does she have to make a definitive statement to have a break from the insane rumours? She shouldn’t have to say, “I will never be a mom” to be able to shut down this insane speculation, no one deserves every photo of their tummy to be scrutinized for pregnant or fat no matter what their family planning goals are.
+1 It’s bewildering to me that people think her private, personal thoughts on having children (or the mechanism for having them at this point) are anyone’s business but hers and her husband’s.
@ Plank I agree with you. She wrote a great essay
Right?! “She ruined it”…”It” being the essay?! If so, reread because you missed the point.
YES. Here are my people. Agree with all.
Absolutely. She’s entitled to say or not say anything about her reproductive choices, including that she “may” have children. Frankly, none of us knows whether we WILL have children until we actually have them.
Why not keep the discussion and decision about pregnancy…completely private?
Why not waffle about the decisoin to be or not be pregant, away from the public eye?
Anyone who waffles about any subject on a public platform is called out.
I agree, Plank!
Some of the comments on this story are just BALLS out crazy.
“She shouldn’t have to say, “I will never be a mom” to be able to shut down this insane speculation”
Absolutely correct. And even if she had, the tabloids would be printing SURPRISE PREGNANCY! stories every time she carries her bag in front of her.
I’m with you. What does “keeping the hope alive” really mean in that context? How much of a loser does someone have to be to have “hope” about some actress they don’t even know having a baby? It’s not OUR effing hope to KEEP alive. I’m no Aniston fan — I find her kind of superficial and uninteresting — but as a longtime feminist I thought the message was good. I also think people are presuming an awful lot about how much plotting and scheming actually goes into Aniston’s relations with the press.
But aside from all that, why are men not subjected to this constant speculation about whether or not they will ever become parents? The focus on females necessarily becoming mothers is stupid and fecking sexist, period.
@Lahdidababy–
There exists a trail of rocks that leads to the house of lies that Ansiton has built on her own. Again, good message, wrong messenger.
I aprreciate the message. The messenger is guilty of perpetuatig the problem.
The reference of “keeping hope alive” stems from the longstanding discussions from Aniston fans, now going on for 10-20 years since Friends sitcom, of spceulation and false excitement of a baby that has never arrived. Perhaps you forgot about the skit she did on SNL mocking the paps incessant interest in her procreating with Brad. Now there is an interest in her procreating with the new husband as well. And her op-ed statement CONFIRMS an interest in motherhood.
It is fair to be judged by what you say. If a 47 year old woman states that she is interested in motherhood, and that same woman had stated the same interest 20 years prior as well as off and on throughout her adult life… questions will ensue. If you want people out of your womb, then shut it down. Aniston’s statements rarely match her actions. There are a number of us pointing out the obvious.
maybe that’s how she feels though. she doesn’t want children now or in the near future, but she doesn’t feel like she can say ‘never’.
OK… So why write an op-ed at all then? Why react at all? Keep the discussions of a baby (or not) out of ANY public disclosure. People will get the message.
Just live your life. Eventually everyone will catch up.
But, AGAIN, she did not and she won’t. She is still bringing up the conversation of babies to the public. And that is why it will continue.
She continues to add the public to her discussion about having a baby. She wants her fans to keep the hope alive for her. And they do…
To be fair, that was my first thought, too. But then it occurred to me: Why does she need to shut anything down? Why is it anybody’s business whether she has children or not? Why does she need to make a choice and explain it to us? She doesn’t. It her private choice to make.
That said, the message is problematic. She built an empire on her wombwatch. I feel like she sort of lost the right to complain about tabloids speculating about her private life since she’s the one who’s been fueling the rumors all along.
Mary S, no, no cutoff age for men, apparently, because Penises.
Understand now? 😉
Jennifer is in her late 40’s. Yes women can get pregnant or adopt late in age but it’s extremely unlikely. Insinuating she may become pregnant or adopt is far-fetched but she’s still giving tabloids the narrative kids are in the future.
What about Janet Jackson, though?
she could have a child through surrogate at any age, if she wanted to.
Halle Berry and Laura Linney would disagree with you.
I thought the same thing. Sure, sometimes women have babies at 47 and older. And sure, she has $ and could easily arrange a surrogate or adoption.
But if you are 47, maybe it is a good time to decide whether you WANT kids or not. At 30? Perfectly fine to say “I don’t want kids NOW but maybe later”. You could wait nearly a decade and still (possibly) have all avenues to motherhood available. But at 47? Is she going to decide to adopt at 60? It just seems ridiculous.
@Pamela
Why not? Elton John did. Not to mention the dozens upon dozens of men we read about here who became fathers post 45. She is in great physical health, if she wishes to adopt at 60, thats her prerogative.
Who is to say if she decided to have children and adopted that she would adopt a baby. She could make the choice to adopt an older child which if she did I would find admirable since they so rarely get adopted and need homes too.
That being said she may decide she doesn’t want kids but whatever she does it really isn’t our business and her maternal status or marital status says nothing of her value as a woman.
I hope you’re joking. No one should be adopting children at 60. Or even 50 for that matter. Pretty sure the laws wouldn’t allow it either.
I’m 54, and I can still adopt, especially older children from other nations.
And Celebwatch, the ageism is stunning here. As a healthy 54 year old, I can certainly adopt!!! And many countries allow it. You don’t get to decide I’m too old. This is really insulting and dismissive of the many people who adopt at an older age.
They are no laws against adopting domestically at 50 or 60.My neighbor three doors down is 54 and she adopted her great niece last year.There is no maximum age for domestic adoptions.There is for foreign adoption in some countries.
Huh. So women should not become mothers after a certain age? Really? What about men? Is there a cut-off age for them to become fathers? Wow. I think some people need to think about what they’re saying.
From her Huffpo piece: “Yes, I may become a mother some day, and since I’m laying it all out there, if I ever do, I will be the first to let you know. But I’m not in pursuit of motherhood because I feel incomplete in some way, as our celebrity news culture would lead us all to believe.”
You wanted her to lie about how she feels? We spend too long trying to slot women into neat “gagging for babies” camps or the “never ever” camps. She can sit in between and it not affect your own decisions in the slightest or yield a gajillion insulting articles and commentary.
Yes this so damn much.
I absolutely agree. Why does having children have to be such a black or white issue. For lots of couples who are happy and fulfilled as they are, it’s a case of “if it happens it happens” but, in the meantime let’s love each other and have fun together. What’s wrong with being happy with what you have rather than unhappy about what you don’t have?
YES!!!
And kudos to her. Isn’t one of the reasons she and Brad broke up because he wanted kids and she wasn’t sure? Or at least that is what all of the Angie fans always say. So good for her for being true to herself and not getting pressured into having children even when with a handsome man she loved.
Naya: Completely separate from my rather low opinion about JA herself, I agree w you intensely. Why should complete strangers’ lives revolve or orbit even *remotely* around whether or not a female celebrity chooses to have children? It is *not* JA’s responsibility to sate a fanatic, ravenous public, once and for all, by stating her “final” opinion about having children. Why should she have to lie, w an adamant yes or no, especially if she is not resolved herself yet? She does not “owe” anyone an answer of any kind, and her refusal to give that final response is not an attempt to tease and prolong the public’s interest in her, imo, but a desire not to have to be forced to be dishonest. I think she just doesn’t fully know what her choice will be, and even if she does, it does not effect the lives of anyone but herself and those close to her. I understand this slant of the anger in her essay. However, someone who leaps at every other to chance to be photographed, tan and thin, and aided by cosmetic procedures, in her bikini, is a specious envoy to be disclosing the message that widespread standards of celebrity “beauty” are harmful and daunting to the self image of young girls and women.
@Jen43, who wrote: “Yes, I may become a mother some day”
Right there she ruined it by keeping hope alive. She could have shut it down but she didn’t.”
Yep, that’s where she lost me as well. I was all “Yes! Yes!” up to that point. This is the same exact narrative that started the ‘poor Jennifer deserves to be happy’ and the baby bump speculation in the first place. I’m truly surprised her PR representative didn’t remove that sentence. It’s “I did, I do, I will!” all over again.
Why can’t she see that? All she has to say is “Justin and I are very happy without children in our lives.” That statement doesn’t say she doesn’t want kids or will have them or (for those who insist on inserting this undocumented fact about her) can’t ‘have’ kids … just that she’s happy right now with her life as it is.
But I have to add this … JustJen were at a private resort, and those pictures were up close and personal.
Why can’t she see what? How you personally feel about her? No she shouldn’t have to see or care about how her critics feel about her personal life. That is the freaking point.
Nothing about the I may have kids one day statement says she isn’t happy now. Or won’t be if she doesn’t. It basically is saying that what ever she decides to do with her body is her business with her husband not ours. She isn’t saying her life isn’t complete now in fact she clearly stated the opposite.
What you seem unable to grasp Emma is that it’s none of your business what she chooses to say or not say, do or not do.
I agree with Jen43. Not that she ruined the rest of the article because it’s a good one. But she is fed up with the baby watch? Then shut it down. She’s talked about it a few times over the years and kept the discussion alive. Would it end if she shut it down? It’s worth a shot. Celebs lie all the time. She could’ve just said NO BABIES I’M 47 LEAVE ME ALONE! and be done. If she decides to have one anyway, fine. There are ways to spin that. One would be that she simply changed her mind. It’s been known to happen. I don’t know why we keep discussing these things in terms of “But he/she shouldn’t HAVE to!” when that’s just not a realistic premise.
So she should have to lie to shut it down?
Oh my god, NO. She shouldn’t have to, that’s the argument that will never get us anywhere, as I said above. Of course she’s not obligated. But celebs lie or simply omit things all the time. But suddenly we’re indignant when a lie would actually make sense to get people off their backs? She complains about the scutiny but does everything to keep it alive. She didn’t have to comment on this at all.
For probably 2 decades George Clooney shut down the wedding watch by simply saying ” Nope, marriage is not for me” And then he met someone and quickly got married. You think he gives a sh!t what people think about him changing his mind? Christina Hendrix has said “no babies, my husband and I are happy with just ourselves” end of story. So it is possible.
She’s 47. Maybe she’ll adopt. We will not see her pregnant. And that’s her own business!
We would never have gotten to “see” her pregnancy anyways because she’s too vain to have people discussing baby weight and whether she got her post baby body together quickly. Celebrity women face so much scrutiny about their bodies, she’d have herself locked in a bunker for 40 weeks, if not longer.
Yep. That one line keeps the tabloid narrative alive. The ‘Jen can only be happy when she has a baby’ narrative that has sustained her career since 2005.
Back in 2005, there was no need for her to spin that tabloid narrative because it was none of our business, but it was a lucrative seam for her, so to say we are being prurient about it now is to ignore Jen’s active pushing of this narrative for a decade.
She could have made the larger point by not addressing that particular narrative. And by mentioning it specifically, she’s actually giving credence to it despite saying in earlier paragraphs that she never addresses tabloid narratives.
Perhaps she’s changed her mind about babies or not. She should just get on with it without a press conference or statement.
Then again, where would her career be without the baby narrative that she’s pushed all these years?
Exactly! If she was truly fed up with this narrative, she could have shut it down, and/or at the very least not added fuel to it. This line only serves to keep the narrative alive, and I’m sure that she knew this because she’s done the same in the past. She courted a fan base of people who want to see her settle down and have babies, thus these are the stories and photos the media will seek out and sell. She had to include this line to keep the hope alive so she doesn’t lose this fan base. It also is disingenuous, because the belief/rumors are that her publicist leaks these stories in order to deny them…that’s his MO. Her narrative is spot on, and it does need to be discussed, but she is not the correct celebrity to start the discussion.
And she’s 47!! Not that women that age can’t or haven’t had babies (through multiple ways). However, at that age, she should know if she WANTS them. That’s not an “it may happen” age. That’s an age where you know it will happen–and let’s be real here, she has the $$$ to make it happen–because you’ve visited a fertility specialist and have actively talked about your opitions, or, you’ve decided against children.
While I totally agree with everyone that it’s her business, she owes us nothing on that front, and she shouldn’t have to shut anything down or lie about how she feels…….
…….she’s actively courted this speculation for decades. If she really wanted people to back off with the baby thing, she would have said so long ago. She would have had her publicist shut down these dumb stories, not feed the bear. She’s allowed herself to be defined by this for so many years, she’s extremely disingenuous at best, or really stupid at worst, to be crying about it now. She’s built her image on the very thing she’s denouncing in her essay. If anything “ruined” the piece, it’s been her whole public life, not one mere sentence.
Which really, really sucks because I agree with everything she said and she makes some very good, very important points that need to be made.
Who are we to say that?
What if she secretly is heartbroken and longing to be a mother and cannot conceive?
My point is, we do not know what place she is coming from.
@Net, THIS. I am surprised so few commenters seem to have considered this.
Many of us project our hopes, wants, opinions onto celebs and denigrate celebrities if they do not conform to our specifications.
“The objectification and scrutiny we put women through is absurd and disturbing.”
I could not agree more.
We need to allow people their humanity. We celebrate their successes, revel in their foibles, laugh at their missteps. But, ultimately, we must respect ourselves and each other enough to allow compassion for our contrasts and even for our contradictions.
For instance, I am really taken aback by speculation (and urging) in the public arena that Taylor S and Tom H get engaged/pregnant. We are not stakeholders in their real lives, their personal lives. The amount of pressure celebs, like Aniston, endure from culture vultures is both potent and laughable. Celebs profit from public relations, and suffer from it, too. I don’t fault them for wanting to control their public image as much as it can be shaped from them to us, but I do wish we as the public would exercise a bit more discretion from ourselves towards celebrities.
It is none of our beeswax if so-and-so gets married or pregnant. If we care, we can be happy for their happiness with their choices, but we have no actual claim—no entitlement—to anyone’s lives but our own. So, yeah, I agree we do not know the place ____ is coming from, and furthermore, we have no stake in ____’s choices.
Fame is fickle, and I would not want it for myself. Several of my friends are famous, and as an observer from this vantage point, I see sides of the fan/celeb/media-PR relationship clearly. The most profound thing I’ve come to know is how much misinformation is deeply and passionately believed by fans no matter what.
While it is human nature to idolize, criticize, speculate, and protect our ideas about celebrities, it is indeed toxic to project such centric and singular beauty and conduct standards on people. Aniston’s message is welcome, and one to be taken to heart.
If I’m not mistaken ja was the one who talked about starting a family after “Friends”, then after Friends she signed up for about 3-4 movies. So, people started asking how is she going to start a family when she is in contract for several movies at that time. She then went on SNL and did a skit playing a papazzari, yelling, “Jen, when are you going to have a baby, over and over”. Now the baby joke is biting her in the butt, lol.
Lol and your not biased?look at your name b and a fan tells me all I need to know
@Amanda, what did I say that was not true? Yes, I’m a proud fan of Brad and Angelina.
I’d say right message, right messenger. It doesn’t matter what she had done in the past (or in the present), nothing should allow the shaming. People for some reason live off others being treated badly and tabloids are taking advantage of that. Nothing new, but sad nonetheless.
Completely agree with you!
Technology was supposed to liberate us women, instead it’s turning us into pawns and ‘bit players’.
I was going to say the same thing. I don’t think she actively tried to spin herself as the victim back int he day. She was just speaking her truth and the media ran with it and created this narrative that people love to scorn. They do it all the time and we do buy into it. Clearly.
Sigh. After all this time. There are none so blind..
Totally agree Crox and Esmom.
+1 Though I don’t disagree celebrities are big babies about only wanting their desired narratives pushed, and Aniston is no exception, these stories have been OTT and even cruel. I always felt she was “damned if she did, damned if she didn’t” in terms of her words and actions anyway.
I completely agree with you.
At this point, I have to say right message, right messenger based on all of the positive press and comments she’s been getting since this was published yesterday.
Last night at one point she was trending on Twitter and I read through a lot of the tweets which were 99% positive towards her. I was surprised because it is pretty hard to get the Twitterverse to agree on anything. A scan of the comments in articles about the essay show the majority of people agreeing and congratulating her for speaking up. And from the comments you can tell these aren’t just from Aniston’s die-hard fans.
Most of my gossip time is spent here on Celebitchy so I honestly had forgotten that the majority of people out there like her.
Celebitchy is definitely out of step with the general public on their views of Aniston. She’s always been well-liked by the public.
She’s getting slammed on comments on People, though, which really surprised me since they usually fawn all over her. But I think this time folks have finally seen through her hypocrisy and her BS. She said she’s fed up with the constant pregnancy rumors when she encouraged those rumors for years! They were the only thing that was keeping her relevant after a seemingly endless string of flops and failed romances. If she had really wanted to shut the rumors down she could have taken a leaf out of Cameron Diaz’s playbook and told the media I’m not pregnant, I have no plans to get pregnant, I’ve never wanted kids and it’s none of your damn business why not, so get the hell out of my uterus and leave me alone. It worked for Diaz and it would have worked for her, but then who would have paid any attention to her once the divorce became old news? She’s going to milk this baby nonsense until she’s 85. Just watch.
All of my gossip comes from this site, I don’t even read tabloid headlines when I’m in line at the market because I’m honestly not that interested. I’m not really a fan or not a fan of most celebrities. Anyway, as a non-biased non-fan, I thought her essay was great, it was written well, she made her point, she gave some details. I would never have thought the comments on this post would be about whether she’s going to be a mom or how she’s always courted the tabloids! I thought everybody would be commenting on her message! Happiness is different for different people. Let people decide for their own selves. That’s what I got out of it.
Yes this times a billion.
People are always accusing her of being vapid and berating her for talking incessantly about her hair or her diet or whatever superficial thing in every interview (to be fair, she DOES do that) and now she comes out with a worthwhile and poignant essay and she gets slammed for one little line. I mean, come on…
very true. she spoke up. She got an important message out there and her voice is still relevant. Women and young girls need to hear this. That could be her higher calling, if she chose it. Yes, she may use the media at times (what celebrity does not… ? even when they go on a press junket and she-who-will-not-be-named is a master at it) but not to the degree that this site and some others imply. I agree leaving that sentence out about being a mother would have felt more comfortable with the rest of the piece but so be it.
For me it isn’t the one little line, it’s the whole clash between the entire piece and her public image. She’s all about the superficial, be pretty like me marketing, and has been for years, yet now it’s “don’t judge women by their looks”? Well then who’s going to buy your hair products, read your diet tips, or pay attention to any of your other endorsements? It seems like it’s suddenly a problem because she’s not getting the accustomed favorable opinions. You’re only getting all “don’t judge me” when you’re being called fat, but nary a peep when you’re crowned the most beautiful woman. But looks shouldn’t matter. Okay, sure.
Same with the relationship and baby stuff. She employs a high powered publicist who can push any narrative she chooses. Anything, including nothing at all. And yet what have we gotten (repeatedly) as front page news from People, a tabloid that pretty much publishes verbatim what the publicist dictates? Yeah.
@ Wren-Ok but I absolutely believe that women are more than just their looks, 100% believe in that premise.
Yet I frequent beauty blogs, I love beauty products and spend a lot of money on sh*t like that.
Do I need to turn in my feminist card? 😉
I’m just not seeing an inherent contradiction in wanting to look my best but also believing that I’m more than just my appearance.
She works in an image-based industry and presumably gets endorsement offers on the regular. So she’s supposed to NOT cash in on that because “women are more than their looks”?
That just doesn’t seem fair or realistic to me. She’s not some beacon of morality and she’s not putting herself out there as one, she’s just asking that people leave her damn womb alone.
“because she’s not getting the accustomed favorable opinions. You’re only getting all “don’t judge me” when you’re being called fat, but nary a peep when you’re crowned the most beautiful woman. But looks shouldn’t matter. Okay, sure. ”
I would completely agree with you if this was the first time that she had been accused of being pregnant simply because she gained 5 lbs. But the thing is, it’s happened numerous times. From her essay, it sounds to me like she’d rather have the headline “Aniston is Getting Chubby” instead of “Aniston is Pregnant!!!” So I’m not sure that I buy into the idea that this is ALL about body criticisms.
We keep harping on this idea that she used “womb watch” to get press. Maybe she did, maybe she didn’t, maybe it’s a bit of both.
But isn’t it possible that the post-Brad breakup narrative of “he wanted kids/she didn’t” kind of took over and became bigger than her? You cannot deny that people (including her detractors) have a strange obsession with her womb. Whether this is of her own making or not isn’t of concern to me. It’s clear from her essay that she is REALLY sick of people saying she’s pregnant because she had a damn burrito for lunch. I think that would make even the sanest among us lose our minds.
Look, I don’t want to spend hours defending her because at the end of the day, I’m not all that invested. I get the criticisms of her, but as a 37-year-old woman without kids I can’t help but empathize with her. I LOATHE being asked about when/if I’m going to have children so I support Aniston on this one.
Jennifer Aniston could save a baby from drowning or cure cancer and they would still find something to attack and critize.
Completely irrational.
@Kitten, I agree with her message too, and if it was 10 years ago I’d be annoyed on her behalf by the constant baby garbage. And I was, I felt bad everyone was all up in her grill over it. But then it never ever stopped. She could have shut it down and she never did. In fact she did the opposite. If it really bothers her so much, why plant (or allow her publicist to plant) all those stories each and every time she has something to promote. People magazine pretty much publishes what they are told to publish. I can’t be the only one who would haved loved to hear something different from her long before this. To me it’s a bit too late in the game for me not to feel it’s hypocritical. By all means, use the press, but don’t complain about the result you encouraged.
Well said, and I agree completely.
Agree! Whether she bought into the narrative or not, she knows what she’s speaking about. Great message! Women should not be objectified. Girls should not go through life thinking that they are less than unless they look like an actress or supermodel. Wonderful message.
I agree!
First, I doubt she actually wrote it. Second, this coming from the Queen of the Huvane coven is laughable.
This x 100%
Very hypocritical.
@Greata, who wrote: “First, I doubt she actually wrote it. Second, this coming from the Queen of the Humane coven is laughable.”
Well, yeah … it’s pretty obvious that Jen didn’t pen this herself. I still applauded her for the message though, right up to the point were she repeated a version of her 2005 “I did, I do, I will!” anthem (her response to Diane Sawyer’s question of if the rumor that she didn’t want kids contributed to the break up of her marriage to Brad Pitt).
I think she just can’t let go of the fear that if she admits she’s happy without children in her life (which is absolutely okay to do) that people will somehow ‘blame’ her for the break up of her first marriage. Let it go, Jen. Let it go.
Portraying a woman speaking out as part of a ‘coven’? How very Puritan of you.
Lots of cognitive dissonance with her. Don’t continually use pregnancy stories to keep yourself in the news then. And then seeing that nutjob jump on this…yeah, right message, wrong messengers. Leann uses pregnancy lines NONSTOP for publicity. These women are both idiots and they’re reaping what they’ve sown. Leann probably being the worst, as she’s exploited lies about infertility for publicity quite a few times.
I think most of celebrities either have people to write things for them or at least have somebody to read the piece and remove statements that could be taken the wrong way. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But the message is still coming from her and about something she cares about.
Every social media post, written article & interview quote is carefully planned by the PR team. There may be exceptions but not many. Most celebrities aren’t clever nor articulate enough to go rogue- they need scripts to stick to.
Great message, so why not live by it jen?
Yup. Walk the walk.
She was doing so well until she wrote: “Yes, I may become a mother some day, and since I’m laying it all out there, if I ever do, I will be the first to let you know.”
Why even go there?
This comment is why the piece feels pretty self serving. She built a career as the scorned woman who dreams of marriage and motherhood. If she’s trying to do damage control now, kudos, but then be firm that you won’t discuss motherhood. Don’t tease the tabs with hints and innuendos. Be firm.
The whole piece is self-serving, with or without that line. Why else would she write it?
@Bettyrose, who wrote: “This comment is why the piece feels pretty self serving. She built a career as the scorned woman who dreams of marriage and motherhood. If she’s trying to do damage control now, kudos, but then be firm that you won’t discuss motherhood. Don’t tease the tabs with hints and innuendos. Be firm.”
This, SO this.
So much this. Why go there? Say nothing like that. J.A. should be assured that THAT is the only line the media is going to remember and quote for years. Just like they continue to trot out her line from the post-BP breakup Vanity Fair cover about wanting to be a mother…
@Tourmaline, who wrote: “So much this. Why go there? Say nothing like that. J.A. should be assured that THAT is the only line the media is going to remember and quote for years.”
Not just the media, but her fans as well. They sincerely bought her 2005 “I had a man, a had a dream of children, but it was taken away from me!” road show. That one line about a ‘maybe baby’ (as @Epiphany coined up stream) will keep her fans hooked … and her PR Team knows it.
@Emma—— I actually looked up the Vanity Fair cover from 2005–on the cover was her quote “I never said I didn’t want to have children. I did and I do and I will!” Juxtaposed with the cover shot of her posing in a boob-baring unbuttoned white shirt and no pants.
Sigh she is either a slow learner, or absolutely disingenuous, or both.
Exactly.
I think that might be sarcasm when she says that. Like, oh sure, you will be the first to know. I think she would not announce it if she was pregnant. I think it’s a way of saying eff off without saying it.
I like what she said, and I think it needed to be said. I can’t imagine the constant scrutiny, or having people congratulating you for something that isn’t happening. That would be annoying at best, and devastating at worst.
I agree. I’m glad she wrote that statement too. I think the media’s obsession with the whole baby bump lookout is a quite gross.
Also, I don’t get why some people believe she asked for this kind of scrutiny because of an old article in 2005 and thus she has no right to complain afterwards. And what does shilling life products have to do with the media’s obsession with her private life? I just don’t get the dislike of her on this site. It’s weird to me since she’s not a divisive personality at all IMO. I also find it weird that people think all her actions are calculated to get the most press coverage. Talk about conspiracy theory.
Because Jennifer Aniston is one of the most savvy media players out there. Her article implies a lack of control over the narrative, when the reality is that she’s paired with one of the best, most restrictive publicists out there (Huvane), and there has always been a crafted media plan in place. And this goes way beyond one interview in 2005.
I personally thought those beach photos must have been mortifying, and I agree that her message is good. I just give a little side eye at the messenger.
I thinks it is her hypocrisy that is the issue. She is complaining about the beauty standards women are held to, while being part of the problem. She peddles products that women should use so they can “look like her”, which is the narrative in her ads. If she is serious about being disgusted with how women are defined by looks, then she should practice what she preaches.
I am so with you Carol. It’s ridiculous how she is beat down on this site… Maybe, just maybe, she’s just a woman who, like the rest of us, sometimes puts her foot in her mouth, says things out of emotion and acts like a normal human being. Instead her entire life is scrutinized and read into as if one was trying to decipher the Dead Sea scrolls. I’ve never seen anything like it. I don’t know who she wronged on here, but wow.
@ carol
I agree
I agree, Carol.
Thank you Carol, you stated what I was thinking so well!
Then she should have shut this conversation down eons ago and moved on!
Why should she have to? It’s not anybody’s business. She shouldn’t have to explain whether she is or isn’t or can’t.
She’s encouraged the constant scrutiny. Without it, she would have vanished into obscurity years ago.
Yeah, then maybe drop your business dealings with People mag. It’s a business, and one she uses well when we she needs to. This reads far too much like yet another PR piece. I don’t buy it for a second, especially since she can’t seem to string together a coherent thought most of the time. She’s reinvigorating the whole thing by making this statement. People had moved on.
I’ve always cheered for her comedic chops, because I think she has some and I think comedic actresses are undervalued. But I don’t buy her press release when she makes her money from shilling her body, her yoga, her girl power-squad bull, her diet, her Mexican vacations, her hair, her hair products, her skincare products. etc.
Agreed.
At the dentist office recently I saw her People “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” issue from a few months back. The magazine was chock full of advertisements for Aveeno. Jennifer has chosen her current career and it is as a spokesmodel for Aveeno, Living Proof, and Smartwater. Yes she does movies too, but what she is shilling hardest for is to move those products. I’m sure she looks forward to many lucrative years ahead of selling the Jennifer Aniston Lifestyle Brand as a sun-kissed, fit California woman of a certain age. And that comes with tons of blather in her interviews about her private life with Justin, her diet, her workout routine, her psychological well-being. The baby chatter is a simple byproduct of how she has branded herself.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I agree wrong messenger. If your going to set up pap strolls and Barbados was one (or it was the luckiest pap in the world) and she would have known there would be pregnancy rumours because they have happened a 100 times before when she has had a bit of a belly. Considering Jens constant talk of dieting and exercising of course it is going to be pounced on. This is what annoys me about these celebs they complain but they set up pap strolls when they have something to promote. For years Jennifer claimed she really wanted children so of course people will run with those rumours. It’s as bad as George Clooney who claims to be private yet we get all these pap shots same place, same poses year after year. His wife is a famewhore and I laugh when anyone claims she doesn’t like the attention. Amal makes it very clear she is loving it she looks right at the camera and is always dressed up with hair and makeup done.k Their 3 day circus wedding was a paps dream. But you know George will insist he is private and hates the paps. One other thing is a lot of celebs needs the paps they need headlines and attention so people will read about the movie they are doing etc. I don’t feel sorry for her she like George has proved many times if they don’t want to be seen they aren’t.
As with most celebrities, she’s happy enough with the press when they’re forwarding her own narrative, but when they go rogue, it’s all “gee, why aren’t you covering the important news stories of the day instead of lil’ ol’ me?” — as though reporters have been flown in from the Middle East and Washington DC beats to cover her story. It’s entertainment journalism, Jen, and you don’t mind its rapt attention when you think you’re getting an Oscar nom. Now, is the coverage of her bajillion phantom pregnancies WAY over the top? You bet. But it’s about time celebs like Aniston owned up to their feeding of the trolls; by willingly making her private life, her plans for parenthood, her marriage/relationships all fodder for the press, she can’t then turn around and cry “unfair!” when the story doesn’t go her way.
I felt the same. She’s been too much of an active participant in tabloid media to critique it.
I’ll listen to your whining about the treatment you get at the hands of paps, right after you stop shilling for products you try to convince regular women to use to look like you rather than admitting to having photoshopped magazine spreads, and access to a team of personal trainers, and hair and makeup specialists.
I don’t think that’s the point at all. Of course people know she has all that stuff at her disposal, like all celebs do, as part of their public profession and image. It’s her private life that constantly gets all this crazy scrutiny and I could see why she’d get fed up.
I do think her private life is constantly scrutinized and I do think she has a right to be fed up with it. My issue with her being the one to complain is twofold: 1. She complains about the “warped standard of beauty” even she is held up to when she shills products telling women they need to use said products to look like her. She is part of the problem of women being made to feel bad about themselves when she shills products she knows regular women can’t use to look like her. 2. There are plenty of celebs who don’t live/shop in pap heavy areas. She is free to move somewhere the paps aren’t around all the time.
Eh, I don’t think water, perfume and skin/hair products promise to deliver some unattainable ideal of beauty, they just promote looking and feeling good and healthy. And she’s not papped all that often, imo. Those beach photos were the first I’d seen of her in a long time and those were not near her home anyway,
The focus is too much on the outside of a woman, as if that is where the value of a woman lies. She helps perpetuate the problem. But she makes a a very nice profit from the vanity of the beauty business.
Now she does not like the ridicule or suggestion that she is fat. (Aw, poor thing. Who said she was fat?!) She is still pandering to the concept that how she looks IS EVERYTHING to her.
I am not sure if she is more pissed off that someone thinks she is fat or annoyed that she is still not pregnant and there remains public dialog about her womb.
Sounds like she wants the public out of her business but she is the one that invited then in with her multiple discussions about it in the past and now including this one as well.
That is a complete strawman argument.
How so? She makes her living off the very thing she denounces here. Superficial, petty “girl stuff” and relationship drama. I think that’s a pretty important point.
Her motives for this releasing thi HP article right now are suspect because body-shaming and pregnancy rumors dominate media about her for 20 years or so. Why is she all of sudden ‘fed up’ with this round of pregnancy rumors?
Not sure if 20 years constitutes as “suddenly” getting fed up? I think in the light of the atrocities the US has taken, she probably finally got the perspective to say something. Like she said, the news in America
Because it’s been 20 years and it is beyond ridiculous at this point!
Right message and I don’t mind the messenger.
What is happening to women in our new social media world is simply ridiculous and I don’t much care who addresses it. More women need to address this.
To be measured by ‘valueless’ standards (looks, weight, whom we marry…etc), whilst men are measured by ‘valuable’ standards (asset ownership, influence, career…etc), means that we may well find ourselves, inadvertently, producing the next generation of girls who are tacitly being told to ‘marry well’.
This!!!!
This! Perfectly well said. And as a mother of a young girl this is very impactful to me.
Perhaps in her interviews, she could also follow up and show by example that she is more than her status as a married woman and talk more about her beliefs, what she stands for? Right now she is pissed, because she said so, about being criticized by th media about her weight and the baby-gate thing, about public disappointment of her personal decisions of womanhood.
There is a lot going on in the world…perhaps she can turn down the volume of hair, diet and exercise advice?
Please. Can you imagine how she’d be raked over the coals for daring to express an opinion about anything “significant?” She’s smart to stick to innocuous crap, that’s where she’s able to draw the line and keep the rest of her thoughts/opinions/beliefs private. Her prerogative.
Again, it is her chioce. But by her choices of speaking about preganancy and the lack thereof, and profiting off of the beauty business… why get your panties bunched up over innocent well-wishers congratulating you about a potential joyous occasion (pregnancy)?
The issue is being congratulated on something you have yet to acheive can be taken in two ways: (1) Wow, they are rootig for me to become a mother soon. Awesome! or (2) How DARE they insult me? Do I look fat to them?
Janet Jackson has been up and down with her weight for years, YET NO ONE ever thought she was pregnant. Now she actually IS pregnant… and older than Aniston.
You CAN control the narrative. Aniston particpates in the babygate and has for over 20 years. If she does not like it she can shut it down. A woman of her means is not helpless.
It’s gross. How is this for objectification: every day on the Daily Mail website a motherlode of stories about female celebs and notice how they are all captioned to say that the celeb is “showing off” something about their body—a woman can’t just walk down the street, they are “showing off their baby bump”, “showing off their post-baby body” “showing off their legs”. This is just a sample from the stories listed on the sidebar of the DM today. It’s revolting.
I am really petrified for young girls reading that drivel packaged up as ‘celeb news’ when it’s basically about making money via advertising by objectifying women.
A good reason to block that hideous site.
first of all if she wrote this essay i will be shocked – judging from her ” interviews” somehow i don’t think she is as ‘ deep” as she wants pple to think she is. all her interviews have questions that were probably approved by her or her team so each and every pregnant or personal life question she opted to answer – she cd have not allowed any of the questions to be asked at all but she never did. now she is whining abt the paps – the paps have been there for years and she sd have known better – she has used them to suit her own interest when she wanted to – if she was that genuine or feeling so harassed by the paps or interviewers she cd have just said abt her feelings abt kids years ago and talked abt something else but she once again didn’t . i can’t really blame her though – what else can she talk abt besides her hair and her ex – certainly not her ” career’ for sure judging from the duds she has had for the past so many years
I am legitimately surprised by the response to this on here. She “invited” this criticism? Really?
If I agree to something once, or twice, or five times, does that mean I’ve agreed to it for the rest of my life? Or at some point am I allowed to say no?
Jesus.
The spirit of her message is correct. Women are valued for superficial things, for how they look and their lack of mass, and men get to be valued for real things, like their careers and thoughts and ambitions. Regardless of whether or not she has leveraged the paps for personal gain, this is the truth. And she is a victim of it.
+10000
She has BENEFITTED fron the paps attention as well. Unfortunately, there is a downside to excessive exposure.
The word “victim” will defintely tug at a number of bloggers. The paps recent pictures were unkind ( i.e. the fake pregnancy alarm) to her usual depictions in photos. How many of you went on and on about the possiblity of her being pregnant when she is not?
Her fans ARE still waiting and hoping for her to be pregnant because WOMEN, mainly the minivan majority, will NOT see her as a completely happy women until she has a child of her own… just like them. The tabloids are FULLY AWARE of Aniston’s fan base and plays on them for profit. This is a successful running engine, and it has not lost any momentum.
It’s different say no, I don’t want to use the press this way any more and I hope they respect that. Rather than, pretending she hasn’t been the impetus behind these stories and play the victim. Why should I feel anything for her? She’s willingly been using this topic for publicity for years. YEARS.
I’m surprised too..most seem to think she gave up all rights to voice an opinion because years ago she was pissed about her husband sleeping with his co-star. .the whole ‘victim’ image seems to have been kept alive by tabs and gossip sites to feed their narrative. Does she use the press? Of course..every celeb interview is for self- promotion on some level, whether the topic is a film, pet cause, or what they eat for breakfast. What celeb would be more ‘suitable’ for the message?
“What celeb would be more ‘suitable’ for the message?” A messenger who is not a hypocrite.
Aniston pays a sizeable portion of her income (See Huvane and the CAA agency) to monitor and add tabloid stories and other media outlets to keep talking about her personal life MORE THAN HER FILM CAREER AS A FILM ACTRESS. In comparison Sandra Bullock, Reese Witherspoon, Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anne Hathaway and julianne Moore also have the same agent, yet we know them for their field work as film actresses. They also profit from the beauty business as well. Apparently she gets their leftovers for roles IF there is anything left from which to choose. Sandra and Charlize are single women who never promised anyone anything about motherhood at all, nor did they allow the media to suck them in. Anistons female co-stars from Friends seemed to avoid the babygate as well.
Wasn’ t it Aniston that was on the cover for a magazine basically naked laying on top of a bunch of men with nothing on but ties on in promotion for the Christmas family dog movie Marly and Me? Where was her concern, or anyone else’s, for objectification then?
Aniston has worked very hard to earn her status as a sex symbol. However, it was never an ogranic journey. From her strict diet routine of chicken salad that she maintained throughout her 7-8 years with Friends, to her numerous film roles as the cute girlfriend, which really is an extension of Rachel, to stating how she really stretched herself in a film role by not wearing any mascara, and finally the role of Cake, where she finally allowed herself to be transformed into something not so attractive (OMG such a risk) for the audience to see the life of a woman who has to endure chronic pain.
Aniston has been on that hamster wheel of movie stardom for over 20 years. That is a long time. Yet, she cracks not when she injures herself from a film role or that she does not get paid enough as an actress as the men… she loses it because her protruding gut has been mistaken for a woman in pregnancy.
I just don’t see the need to fist pump over this.
The thing is…if the tabs had put her photos out there, with the caption, Jen Anniston’s body is perfection, instead of “Is Jen pregnant”, which really means she looks like she gained weight, would she have written this op-ed. NO…she was just pissed that the tabs thought she looked chubby! Dont’ get me wrong! I totally agree with what Jen said. Just wondering about the real reason she wrote it…
+1 I agree. I think she was more upset with the insinuation she wasn’t in perfect shape.
As for those doubting she wrote it, I think it actually sounds like her voice. My guess is that she drafted it, but Theroux edited and polished it. I read he had Instagram posts expressing fury at the tabloids while they were being hounded in NY–I suspect they worked together to address this in the best way they could. As for why now? It affects her husband too, and I think she has a better awareness of the inherent misogyny in the tabloid coverage since getting together with him and becoming acquainted with people like Gloria Steinem. And she can pretty much hide out in LA, but can’t in NYC, since their apartment doorway exits onto a public sidewalk.
The Gloria Steinem “connection” is neither recent nor new.
Aniston has put herself out there as a vain actress. Now she is married she wants to reel it in. Do you think she would have wrote this op-ed if she had the children she always wanted to have?
Again, good message, wrong messenger.
Even when people were commenting on the pictures from Barbados that they *thought* made her look pregnant – no one was saying she looked fat. Nowhere did I see the word fat used. Just because someone thought she looked pregnant that’s not fat shaming or saying people accused her of not being skinny enough. The comments section wasn’t full of people saying “That Jennifer Aniston sure has let herself go”. Jennifer may be the right messenger for the I’m Not A Lesser Person Because I Don’t Have Kids message but I don’t see her as the poster girl for body shaming just because people wonder if she’s pregnant.
I love her style, I wish I had her body.
maybe she said she wanted children to keep all the crazy people away. all of these comments just prove her point. when are women going to stop shaming other women for living their life the way they want to. Out of every celebrity for the past 20 years who has had the most false covers? Jennifer Aniston. Every single week they are talking about her fighting or being pregnant, or being fat, or being to skinny, or still loving brad. i would play the media if i was in her shoes too. if you cant fight having people follow you around then you might as well turn it into your favor. You are all so quick to critize her from your keyboards, but put yourslf in her shoes. Being followed daily by creepy guys with cameras, having your past love life laid out weekly in the tabloids, being called fat, skinny or pregnant every week. Cant stand bump watch. I know its hard to wrap your head around, but not every woman wants a baby. Some of us are even happy. We need to be supporting each other. Not tearing each other down. Women are so critical of eachother. Its gross
SHE has made comments TO THE MEDIA about her feelings about Brad AND his wife… over the years. Huge mistake and she has been mocked on blogs and the media for it not keeping these thoughts simply to herself.
Please GOOGLE and review her comments from 2005-2016. Pretty much up until she met Justin, she was still commenting PUBLICLY about an ex who started new chapters in his life without her having a role in any of them. That is what made her look desperate and branded as the lonely emblem or Sad Spook, as one interviewer named her.
She made this bed, And yes, now she is tired of lying in it. Who wouldn’t be??
I will agree with her message, however she’s silently! accepted to be pictured as ” the wronged woman” for years. So I guess that as long as the message was “right” she kept “silent”. Now the message has turned ludicrous and for me it looks like the media begins to mock her about being pregnant.
I’ve never been Aniston’s fan and while I find her letter perfectly fine I’d say she made her bed herself.
Don’t care who wrote it. It is a good essay.
Why tabloids. I mean, when celebrities write or have their publicist write these it is to focuses on their charity or a subject like children. She participates with St Jude, why not write about that. It is the superficiality that can bite her.
She is right in everything she wrote. She is going to be criticised for it either way unfortunately but read the essay before daring to criticise her. She is saying women should be seen as more than as a body, partner and mother so even her saying she may become a mother shouldn’t be ridiculed because that’s her choice not yours for you to say. Why should she lie or not say anything because we have no idea that she wants. We do not judge men the same way we do women, you just have to see Daily Mail and the way they objectify female celebs is disgusting.
I’m not really a fan of hers and she is definitely somewhat responsible for the beginnings of this whole poor desperate Jen narrative. But she’s a celebrity and you can’t expect her to have enough self reflection to actually take responsibility for all the shenanigans. Especially since a huge portion of them were done by her PR team possibly without her direct input. Ultimately she’s right.
Right message, wrong messenger.
If you walk like a duck and act like a duck, people may think you are a duck.
Truth is, Aniston’s film career is NOT what kept her afloat in the media. Her celebritydom from 2005-2016 is largely based on her personal life, and she INVITES the media in. Now the ridicule is unseemingly, not in her favor and rude, and she wants it to stop. Duly noted.
Her PR team DOES respond to comments about her, her physique, and whether or not she is pregnant. Agreed, she is fed up about nasty comments about herself. She is not necessarily against negative comments about other women or female celebrities… Please share when she has defended another woman celebrity being criticized for their personal flaws. She has somehow remained neutral or silent on these matters for a very LOOOOOONNNNGGG time.
But SHE started this mess, goodness gracious. She has indulged in the superficiality of being a celebrity for a very long time. Aniston’s discussion in interview and articles are rarely about her body of work as an actress. It is about her hair, the divorce, her coveted feelings about her emotional state, her behavior (mainly) post-divorce, her hair, what she eats, her hair, diet, her dating life, her non-existing preganancies, skin regiments, and her hair—BASICALLY, topics . Even though she has complete control in most of her interviews, she responds in a vapid manner more often than not. She had the reigns each time, especially as a comedic actress, to spin any interview in ANY direction she wanted and she has not been able to do so. I am not sure if she was unwilling or unaware.
And so, the mirror reflection from the media is not what you like or agree. Great, change always starts from within. Perhaps Aniston will actually turn the page and focus more on the art of being an actress and PUSH for her interviews to STAY in that lane.
And she says she doesn’t participate–ummmmm….how about that “5 Years After Brad” cover in People magazine? In 2013 she had two covers, one right after the Oscars about her wedding plans, and how they were supposed to be married in the spring of 2013…..and then got pissy when people kept asking her about her wedding and if it was on or off…….like really? YOU BROUGHT IT UP. Or the infamous cover in 2011/2012? When she said her fans just want her to be barefoot and pregnant and she’s all “relax, it’ll happen!”……that’s not addressing and engaging tabloid rumors? When all you have to do is ignore ignore and live your life? I mean, if she wants to comment, great. It’s her life. But stop pretending that you didn’t engage in it.
I used to like Jennifer very much (mostly because of Friends), but honestly, I have no clue why she’s still relevant in Hollywood. She hasn’t had a hit in movies since -when?- 2008? Is there anything worth mentioning in terms of audience, or critics, past Marley and I?
My point is, if she’s still so popular today it’s because she has been riding that narrative for more than 10 years. While the complaint is totally legitimate, she is 100% the wrong messenger to deliver this statement. Also, the timing is very suspicious: why now? Why only several weeks after the incriminated photos? I suspect that Tiddy-bear took over the gossip world, which Jen didn’t expect, and took interest away from herself.
Plus, to add fuel to fire, as some other readers have posted, I don’t believe she penned this editorial. She lacks the eloquence and she definitely has never showed even the slightest interest in joining the public debate on such important/controversial themes before. I definitely think this is shady as hell, my opinion is that her team has probably advised her to start focusing more on current topics such as feminism/body scrutiny and so on… She needs something to keep the interest rolling, considering that her acting career has been quite disappointing lately. It’s the gossip that keeps the boat afloat.
Horrible Bosses and We’re The Millers were big comedy hits, and she’s done some good smaller movies like Life of Crime.
Also she’s been saying things like this in in-depth interviews for 4-5 years now, the sentiment isn’t new, she’s just expanded on it here. Back in the Friends days she had plenty to say about earning the same as her male co-stars, being asked to diet for roles, the pressure to start popping out kids as soon as she got married and how she wanted to focus on her work right then. She’s not the most outspoken celebrity and she’s of the generation of celebs who try to keep their interviews pretty dull so they don’t give much away, but she’s never shied away from the kind of message she’s presenting here.
You know who shut down baby talk and has never walked it back: Cameron Diaz. Her stance hasn’t changed even though she’s married. I respect that.
But it was never a big thing with Cameron because most of her relationships were short or unconfirmed. The tabloids couldn’t write endless pregnancy stories because she was often single or just months into a relationship. The few times she made it over a year with a guy the marriage and babies talk got really loud. I remember almost 2 years when new ‘Cameron having JT’s baby’ stories were coming out every second week, in-between the breakup stories. It got really loud again when she got married despite the fact she’s been extremely clear. Literally right now there’s a story going around that she’s pregnant because she was photographed looking like she ate a big lunch.
She hasn’t been able to shut down anything, her personal life just rarely made that line of storytelling from the tabloids viable. Whenever it was, they went for it.
AND… she never made promises about wanting a baby or talking about it will happpen in 5 years or so when not married.
Diaz did not indulge or tease the media with baby talk. That is our point. Aniston had made her bed and she is sick of lying in it.
My opinion of her has just gone through the roof.
Go Jen!
This just seems like a desperate ploy for attention and publicity. I would perhaps believe her if she didn’t do a spoof for Saturday Night Live mocking people asking her about having a baby, or her doing a commercial being PREGNANT, to sell smart water, but most importantly, if she didn’t spend the last 15 years especially the last 11 milking the baby issue. And fancy saying she never responds to gossip!! She regularly references it in interviews and her publicist continually denies or confirms things. The main problem I have with her is that she is a master pr manipulator, and she denies it.
All of this. Well said, Tarsha.
Totally agree with you @Tarsha. I never forget that Snl spoof. I also remember the GQ nude cover of ja with only a tie around her neck. If I’m not mistaken she went on David letterman and gave him the tie she wore on the GQ cover and was very proud of that cover..
If she is so unhabby with the papz, stop calling them and letting them know where she is to get her picture in the tabloids. She uses the tabloids and papz to sell her smart water. Most of the time she is she is picture she has her smart water front and center selling it I’m sure.
That’s embarrassing, I guess she thought nobody would notice that she has actually been exploiting the family/pregnancy story to remain slightly relevant.
I like what she said, it was important and needed to be heard. The reality is that whether we realize it or not with all the baby watches, ring watches and break up new couple watches we play into we teach little girls and reenforce to women they aren’t worthy or good enough without a man or child. That they are sad lonely and pathetic and it isn’t true. That isn’t to say that finding a husband and having children isn’t wonderful it is, but it shouldn’t be treated like the greatest accomplishment of Woman’s life and sadly it still is.
So regardless of what you think of Aniston the message was amazing and on point and her saying it got attention. This crap needs to stop.
A life-long commitment to another person, for better or worse, til death do you part IS a great accomplishment.
To have the opportunity to raise a child, and to enjoy the unconditional love, triumphs and pitfalls of parenthood, which is a lifetime position, IS a great accomplishment. Pet owners are equally gleeful.
Humans are very proud of their longest running commitments to other human beings. So… be it a spouse, a parent, best friend, a social movement, basically anything that creates joy and passion and inspires progress and love is usually regarded as a great accomplishment. You can have many loves (from different mediums) in one lifetime if you are open to the experience.
I bring this to your attention only to take the sting out when other people try to compare their happiness to yours. Don’t let it bother you. Your shine is uniquely your own and meant just for you.
Maybe she doesn’t want to have kids, because she doesnt want the judgement. Ive had people act like it’s so unbelievable to not want kids. Can you imagine if she were to say that? That state of her uterus is no one’s business
I felt like she would be upset with the beach pics and ensuing comments, and looks like she was. I think her self worth is tied to how she looks, and she will now pursue a vigorous workout/diet to lean herself out and be sure to have another set of pics taken.
Meh. Agree with Kaiser–right message, wrong messenger. Jennifer has spent years and years not only on the superficial, but the baby talk. She actually did push back on it back in like 2012ish for a few years, and people stopped asking her about it (probably because she wouldn’t answer/the questions were banned)….but now she’s back to it. Whatever. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for someone who, a month ago, spent the week after being called pregnant/bloated, prance around NYC in their workout clothes to show how skinny they were………it was a win win for her.
My biggest problem is this. The tabloids are only inconvenient and evil when SHE doesn’t like them. Lest we forget–this is the same person who brought up her dead ex boyfriend from when she was twenty-five–knowing that she hadn’t spent more than a spare thought for him, yet insinuating that he was her true love before Justin, before Brad Pitt…………….and then the tabloids pounced on that, and dialed up their harassment of that poor man’s widow, and wrote a few articles about how he was her old true love, blah blah…….until the widow spoke up.
Did I see an Op-Ed then about the evils of the tabloids, as well as an apology for the widow of her ex for insinuating that she had been there when that poor man died of BRAIN CANCER? Nope.
Or how about all those times Jennifer went onto Chelsea Handler’s show to “tee hee” and giggle over rumors on tv, while she’s supposed to be promoting a movie? Oh, it was only funny then? Same as all that crap that Handler said about Angelina–that prompted quite a few tabloid articles about that. Wasn’t a problem for her either–she didn’t say anything–but kept going onto Handler’s show, despite Handler’s words dragging her name through tabloid mud. Wasn’t a problem for her then.
So yea. I mean, yes–no one should have to go through BS like that. But there’s sexism and double standards, and then there’s the fact that she actively courted it.
I had forgotten about the ex and how she used him to further twu luv story with Justin.
Her Original Beigeness is the harmless celebrity I just ‘can’t’ with. She doesn’t respond to gossip? Eyes rolling so hard it looks like a scene from the exorcist over here.
“Yes, I may become a mother some day”. Well THAT’S not continuing to fan the bump watch! Piss off.
Pfft. I had an instinctive reaction of “bitch, please”. All this comes 5 years too late, if not a decade. Maybe she disliked the pregnancy/relationship scrutiny, but I don’t think she’s that stupid not to realize that that’s what kept her in Manolos and champagne long past the fame expiration date of any beloved sitcom actress.
But I think she’s happy and I hope she’s happy, and silver lining here: maybe moronic bump watches will fade away from now on.
She is the perfect messenger and a target for years and years. This and countless tabloids have under minded women generally over their looks and weight. Catty women talking about other women and that ancient history of who is a REAL woman … aka mother goddess Angelina Jolie. The entire reason Jennifer has been vilified was because she supposedly wasn’t good looking enough for Brad and didn’t want to give him kids. Actually, Jennifer speaks for both herself AND Angie because skinny/anorexic Jolie is currently a topic that nearly supersedes the perpetually pregnant Jennifer story.
Angelina didn’t make Jennifer be pap’d in work out clothes for a week after those stupid “bikini bump” pictures.
And who said she was vilified–I see no one on here, or anywhere else saying that it’s her fault for not getting pregnant when Brad (or any other man) wanted her to. I see people saying she kept talking about it, and that’s what created the story/narrative of her being constantly pregnant. Don’t change the story because people aren’t buying it anymore–when she first came out with the “I never said I didn’t want kids, I do, I want to, I will….” people applauded her. When she said her womb was no one else’s business–people agreed with her. People are agreeing about her message, but are pointing out that she’s profited from the tabloids.
P.S. There are no perfect “victims”. Just like Gretchen Carlson. We’re allowed to say they were/are both wrong, but that their message is right.
And like I pointed out on the upthread–the tabloids are evil when she’s not giggling over rumors with Chelsea Handler on tv, or trying to use a dead man for publicity, but when they basically say she’s fat. When she publicly apologizes to her ex’s widow, or for using the word “retard” on national tv, then I’ll think she’s changed.
@robin, leave Angelina out of this. Angelina or Brad are not writing nonsens op Ed about her being body shamed every day. We all know that’s the first thing ja fans talk about is Angelina being too thin and she should eat a sandwich or a burger. Angelina never called herself “a REAL woman aka mother goddess”…. Brad did not leave ja because she was not good looking enough, he left because he fell out of love with her, end of. If her fans had read the vanity fair interview they did with Leslie Bennett, sp. Brad said if their relationship was not growing he was not staying. Their relationship was over long before he met Angelina, we can go back in the archive and see they were over about a year before they officially broke up. Brad has been with Angelina through a lot of good and bad times, eg her medical crisis and he is still there. I wish them all the best, jmo.
This is rich coming from a woman whose PR team has done nothing but feed lies and outrageous stories to every media outlet for the last 15 years to keep her in the public eye.
You don’t hire Huvane and team when you want to keep a low profile in this town.
She’s a willing participant in this media frenzy and it’s the only thing keeping her relevant as all her movies bomb.
Tears, tears of a clown I say….
I don’t think she wrote the essay. I think her skinny jeans little guy did. Listen to her interviews. She is not very bright. She has an awesome PR team to keep her relevant. If she wasn’t so into her body this and body that, maybe people wouldn’t speculate when she gains a few pounds.
Ugghhh….so much wrong with her being the messenger:
1. She started it – the whole Brad left me for evil AJ thing
2. She put every single relationship she had out there for consumption
3. She altered her own physical appearance in order to better meet the standard of beauty (nose jobs, boob jobs). Now she’s acting like she frowns on the standard of beauty and is telling young women to be who they are and not succumb to the pressure .
4. Her fame came from one measly long ago show, but grew vastly being married to Brad Pitt, getting divorced from Brad Pitt and boohooing to the media, and all the controversy aftermath (chelsea handler, etc.) . She used the media for all of this. The level of hypocracy is mind-blowing.
5. She specifically addressed the accusation that Brad left her because she did’t want kids. She said “Yes, I do….” She kept that going and has kept that going for over a decade because once the rom coms got tired and old, she had nothing else but her personal battles as her narrative.
My conclusion: An unflattering photograph and it’s subsequent theories have her railing. If that photograph would have made her look thin and fit and people commented on that, she would be blissful. It’s only because the comments were negative that she is upset. My advice – stop using paps and the media or even get out of the industry because as long as you’re in it and using the media to your avail when it benefits you, your going to get both good and bad from it. You can’t have it both ways.
The message would be fine were she someone who regularly used her decades-long high profile for selfless good rather than self-absorbed promotion.
yeah there’s no way in H she wrote any of that.
First–Kaiser, I love your posts. Abs agree with “right message, wrong messenger.” I came of age with the men and women of “Friends” (born same year as Aniston) and I have to say that show–the way the women’s bodies lost their curves and grew more angular before our very eyes, the way the men’s bodies bloated alongside them–had a lot to do with the dysfunctional messages young women and men got in the 1990s. She’s been part of the problem and now she’s suffering the same age-ism and sexism that many of us–particularly those without children or partners–endure on a daily basis. All very fascinating.
I still remember the return of Friends the fall after Aniston started dating Brad Pitt. I was genuinely shocked at how much weight she’d lost over the summer. She’d already started thinning out, but that fall, it was clear that she’d made a conscious decision to lose whatever curves she had left. I couldn’t help thinking that she’d taken a look at the women Pitt dated before her — Gwyneth Paltrow, Juliet Lewis — and decided that if she wanted to keep him, she needed to be as thin as they were. To be frank, it made me feel really sad.
Uggh. Yet no faux feminist outrage about people commenting on her nipples all the time.
The barbados bikini pics went hideously wrong in the ongoing narrative of JA branding as a desirable hot woman of the decade (thanks Spike awards!).
We have been treated to annual pics of JA in a bikini for years. Usually in Cabo and the results always have the tabloids and the public telling JA how hot and or amazing she looks in her bikini.
This time, instead of the usual accolades, the reaction was that she must be pregnant due to her big belly.
Oh oh
That wasn’t supposed to happen.
We were supposed to applaud her still hot body in her tiny bikini.
So now all of a sudden we are holding women to an impossible standard. how dare we?
Very good points, I wonder what went wrong when they decided to publish some not very flattering pics so soon after being called most beautiful woman of I don’t remember where.
I bet $100 she will be on People Magazine Cover next week?
Any takers? 😉
Me!
I think Taylor already has that cover 🙂
There is no wrong messenger for this message. It needs to be a tshirt , meme, cultural shift and I wouldn’t even shade Kim Kardashian for preaching this.
As women we all have this issue to a greater or lesser extent and who am I to tell any other woman she doesnt deserve or get to speak on it. Hell yes she does. Any woman does.
exactly!!
I think it’s funny that Celebitchy agrees with her statements yet is guilty of perpetuating the pregnant and fat rumors as well.
I’m glad someone said it.
I feel like every female celebrity who isn’t stick thin is accused of being pregnant on this site.
Jen Aniston can’t win on this site or any other. She has always said she might become a mother some day and that she isn’t going to plan her life around having one. If it happens, it happens. What is so wrong about saying that? Why does that mean that she’s ruined her whole argument on the huff-po piece? I don’t get why she is such a target but it’s sad. I may become a mom again some day, too, but does that mean I am only saying that for attention? Nope. I realize I’m not famous but still. I hope people will finally leave her alone. She’s got control of her life, lives the way she wants to, has a beautiful face and body and has everything she’s ever wanted. Why people have to sh*t on her happiness is beyond me. I’ll chalk it up to jealousy and leave it at that.
So when Jennifer is proclaimed to be The Most Beautiful Woman, or Sexy at 40. Or when bikini pics which have been posted for years say how amazing her body is.. those objectification are fine.. But if people think that the change in your body is you being pregnant then that is the straw that breaks it. I think as she said she got mad that so many people thought she was pregnant. That she was being called by friends and associates. That they were congratulating her and Justin on having a baby. That is what did it. If the paps were screaming how amazing she looks in a pair if jeans or sweats.. I don’t think we would have heard a peep. Not on.
and when she says she doesn’t address the gossip.. that is not true. She addresses it through her PR guy who denied the pregnancy rumors from the start. She talks about them in interviews. So yes she addresses these stories all the time.
she has a right to be upset. But if saying you are pregnant is the worse thing said of you. Then you are doing pretty damn good. Because Tabloids print stories far far far worse about other celebs. And much more damaging.
Good luck Jennifer. When they stop talking about the baby issue.. I wonder what they will focus on then. OR NOT
Why aren’t her 15 minutes up yet?!?
Read the fan comments. Sad Sad Sad
Yeah, she makes some good points.
I find that some women are especially vicious to each other about their looks, you don’ t need to be a celebrity to be ripped into shreds by some jelous women or a tabloid.
Some women are so mean to each other that we don’t need really anybody to do it for us.
On the other hand Aniston and many other celebrities use their personal life to drum up attention for their projects and when it becomes too much they don’t like it.
Kaiser – I 100% agree with you. I couldn’t have said it any better myself.
No matter what Aniston does, she is dogmatically criticized on this site. Why can’t you just applaud her message without criticizing her personally? Don’t you think that it has to hurt to see a tabloid splash closeup images of your belly and imply it’s big enough for pregnancy? Especially since your own argument is always how “vain” she is. And so what if she has pics on covers Photoshopped? I sure would too if I had millions of people looking at it. I just don’t get the inflexible distaste for Aniston but have a feeling it stems from the inflexible worship of Jolie (whom, by the way, you always dismiss her past mistakes in contrast to magnifying Anistons).
Exactly
Thank you!
Didn’t she slam her good friend in an interview for having botox face? Even tho she’s done it herself ( but doesn’t admit it)? She is so full of it. She’s a narcissistic hypocrite who complains only when things don’t go her way. She boo hoos about Angelina being uncool but then cheats with Justin. She cries about people being mean to women and hangs out with Chelsea Handler. She doesn’t care about how women are depicted in the media, just herself. Can’t stand this fake, self-centered jackass.
She might be a hypocrite and she might have behaved less than stellar but she nevertheless does have a point.
Slam the argument and not the person.
Nope. She got her pr people to write her a nice letter so she can pretend she cares about other women and it’s not about her enormous ego. When you are a jerk, you have no credibility. As Kaiser put it, right message from the wrong messenger. I totally agree. I’m not supporting her self-centered hypocrisy. You can’t spend your time playing the tabloid game and then cry wolf when it isn’t working for YOU anymore. She had 20 years to say something about the issue. Many other celebs have talked about it. Why did she speak upnow? Because the images were not that flattering this time and it hurt her ego. It’s all about her.
+1
Her first Aveeno ad had a voice over saying “the beautiful Jennifer Aniston for Aveeno”. It wasn’t too long ago that she will wear a bikini when she’s 80. Something went terribly wrong when she messed with her upper lip. Miss Hotness and Most Beautiful Woman is a hypocrite.
Endorsements are a source of income for actors/actresses and celebrities. That has nothing to do with her criticism of the tabloids.
I think there’s this new trend of Hollywood women writing these op-eds to get praised as a hero. Did Jennifer Lawrence start that? The truth is, Aniston was offended personally because they said something that offended her related to her body. She never gave a crap before about the objectification of women by the media. She was personally offended, and so she decided to write about it as if she is speaking in a general sense for all women.
Agreed!!!
And how do you know all of this? Her personal feelings and why she wrote about them? Are you good friends with her? Do you have conversations with her about this stuff? I think it’s hilarious that people that don’t even know her can sit behind their computer and spout off all these things about her they THINK they know. How about maybe she finally had it up to her eyeballs and felt she needed to let off some steam and settle the BS once and for all. A person can only take so much for so long and she’s endured 10 years of speculation on her life and herself as a person. The paparazzi just doesn’t stop. The stories just don’t stop. The phone calls to her agent, her manager even herself are constant and always about the same thing. At what point would YOU say that it’s ok to stand up for yourself and say FU? Good for her for putting it out there the way she did. People need to get off her case.
I don’t get this. She is a celebrity. She’s in the spotlight. When you choose this kind of career, I personally think that leaves you open to criticism, body shaming, mean comments, etc… If this isn’t what you signed up for, then, maybe you need to change your career path.
Love that she is standing up for women who don’t want kids!
That is not what she did.
I find baby bump speculation very invasive because of how many women have miscarriages. Some women start to show early on, but aren’t ready to share the news. How crappy would a person feel if they were being badgered about a baby bump that was a pregnancy that ended in miscarriage?
I also don’t care at all about celebrity pregnancies. I tend to skip stories about them and baby bump speculation because I find them so boring.
All this preaching from a woman who has made her living bending over or dancing in her underwear on film. Sister please.
It’s funny how socially conscious these aging actresses get when the are too old to pull of their usual undressed antics or they want to be viewed sympathetically due not looking as hot as they once were and they aren’t revered and worshiped as before. SMH.
So easy to see through this, Daily Post had it right about her.