There’s been plenty of speculation when it comes to whether Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler were ever more than just friends and co-stars. Earlier this summer, Butler denied any kind of romance with Aniston but heaped praise on her, saying it was a pleasure to work with her and calling her a “classy lady.” The two were photographed arm in arm on set and were supposedly spotted kissing, but I had a hard time believing there was any kind of romance there. If there was, it seemed to be short-lived and I couldn’t see Butler really settling down at all. He seems like the type who is happy with brief hook ups and who might have a fling with a co-star as long as he keeps it casual. (So he’s still available for Kaiser.) PopSugar held a poll on this issue, and almost 80% of the people who responded either didn’t care if these two were together, or thought they were just friends.

Hello! Magazine has an interview with Jennifer Aniston in which she’s promoting her new film with Aaron Eckhart, Love Happens, which is out this Friday, September 18, in the US. While Hello! has been caught cobbling together old interviews with Aniston and trying to pass them off as new, this one seems legitimate. Aniston talks about the rumors that she’s had a boob job – bullsh*t – about the rumors that she hooked up with Gerard Butler – not telling, but he’s fantastic – and about her appearance – she doesn’t think much about it.

On plastic surgery rumors: bullsh*t
[T]he latest story, that she has had her breasts cosmetically enhanced, is the one that really has her hopping mad.

“It’s such bull****,” she fumes when we meet in Beverly Hills… “I normally ignore stories about me because they tend to take on a life of their own that has no connection with me, and I find that, no matter what I say or do, I can’t find a way to correct them.

“But it does get frustrating sometimes, because I happen to love my job, which is making movies – I do it the best way I can. And I care about making films that people enjoy.

“I think it distracts from that when some idiot somewhere, who’s annoyed about something for some reason, has created a ridiculous story that I had saline implants over the space of one weekend.”

On future plastic surgery: never say never
“I will never, ever say ‘never’ about anything.

“And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with making yourself feel better about how you look – although we’ve all seen how you can go too far with it. But for me, until that day has to happen, I’ll try every other way to make myself feel good first.”

On her appearance: she doesn’t think about it
“I don’t think a lot about my physical appearance. It is what it is and I can’t control it. I pay attention to the extent that I put on clothes today, I decided which shoes to wear with them and I even combed my hair! But apart from that, I just feel I am what I am.

“I do have to pay attention to [my health] because as an actor, my body is my instrument. But it’s more about the energy level than about what it looks like…”

On a rumored relationship with Gerard Butler: he’s “magical”
“Whether I’m seeing someone or not is nobody’s business but my own.

“I will say that Gerry Butler is a great person. He’s absolutely fantastic and yes, magical would be a word that I’d throw in there, too. But the rest is my business. No harm in keeping people guessing, right?”

On guys who might be interested in her and wondering if she’s single
“Well, they can take care of themselves. It’s up to the guy – if a man has balls, he can do whatever he wants to. If a man has the courage to find out for himself whether I’m with someone or not, then he’ll find out somehow. If he doesn’t, he won’t.”

[From Hello! Magazine, print edition, September 21, 2009]

I would guess from Aniston’s response that she at least had something going with Butler in the past, if not when she gave this interview. She calls him “magical” and instead of denying a romance she gets kind of touchy about the whole subject. That’s telling to me.

I don’t know what to make of her claim that she doesn’t think about her appearance, though. In that same interview she talks about feeling “sort of clunky” in her twenties and thirties, explaining that she “was still trying to figure out who I was and how I fitted into my skin.” To me that’s part attitude and part appearance. Aniston didn’t just become so fit and attractive accidentally, she worked on it. Maybe she means that she just does what she needs to do and doesn’t worry about it. She said in another recent interview that she “had people” who help her keep her hair perfect. To me, that shows a level of caring about how she looks that goes beyond just doing what’s necessary for her job. Again, there’s nothing wrong with it, but I personally would admit that my appearance matters to me.

In terms of the plastic surgery rumors I always thought that Aniston just used those “chicken cutlet” type external boob enhancers. She may not have had invasive plastic surgery, but she seems like she’s a botox fan to me. In her last appearance on Oprah it really looked that she had trouble moving her face, but she did tell Elle she’d only tried Botox once. This week’s Star Magazine schooled me on a new non-implant surgical procedure to increase bust size – the “boob jab.” They claim that Aniston had it done and that it explains her enhanced cleavage. Boob jabs typically cost about $4,000 and involve injecting fillers into the breasts that can increase them up to a cup size. The effects can last from 12-18 months. I’m still voting for chicken cutlets for Aniston, though.