Jennifer Aniston is 54 years old. She’s accomplished a lot in her life, much of which has been in the spotlight. Her big break came in 1994 with the sitcom Friends. But the status as a series star did not stop there. She made the jump and established herself as a Hollywood actress, she dated the most beautiful and interesting men in showbiz and nowadays she produces series and films herself. But no matter how consistent her professional success is, love has always been a roller coaster in her life.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Brad Pitt’s ex-wife unpacks the reasons why she hasn’t found love for life – or at least no love that has lasted. When asked about the fact that everything she touches at work turns to gold, the actress honestly says: “I’m really good at every other job that I do, and that’s kind of the one area that’s a bit …”
She sees the reasons for the failure of her numerous relationships with people like Brad Pitt, the screenwriter Justin Theroux, the actor Vince Vaughn or the US singer John Mayer – to name just a few – as anchored in her childhood.
As her life progressed, she realized, “Relationships have always been a little bit difficult for me, because I’ve been really, really lonely. I don’t know.” She admits that her parents didn’t set an example for her in a relationship that made Aniston want, “Oh, I can’t wait to have that too.” What bothers her most in a relationship is a form of self-abandonment that she hasn’t found a proper solution for yet. “I didn’t like the idea of sacrificing who you are or what you need, so I didn’t really know how to do that. So it was almost easier to be alone. So I didn’t have a really good training in that giving and take.”
Jennifer Aniston’s parents separated when she was nine years old. When the father left the family, the relationship with his daughter broke. Later, her relationship with her mother also became very difficult, mainly because she published a book about her in 1999, five years after her daughter’s breakthrough. People magazine once wrote that she grew up in an “unstable household where she never felt safe and didn’t wish that feeling on anyone”.
She herself would have liked to have had children, but it was not to work out. She has already spoken publicly about the processes of artificial insemination – and advised women to freeze their eggs as a precaution before the train left. She herself hadn’t thought of it and regretted it.
Sources: Wall Street Journal, People, Allure
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