Jennifer Aniston has doubled down on her scathing review of tabloid gossip.
Earlier this year she penned an op-ed for The Huffington Post simply titled ‘For The Record‘, in which she finally lashed out against being tabloid fodder for the better part of two decades.
“For the record, I am not pregnant,” she wrote. “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’.”
Now, in a new cover interview for Marie Claire (US), the actress and OG imaginary best friend of the American people explained why she’d finally had enough.
“My marital status has been shamed; my divorce status was shamed; my lack of a mate had been shamed; my nipples have been shamed,” she said. “It’s like, ‘Why are we only looking at women through this particular lens of picking us apart? Why are we listening to it? I just thought: I have worked too hard in this life and this career to be whittled down to a sad, childless human’.”
We don’t need to give you the backstory on Jen’s previous marriage, single-life, childless existence and genetically-blessed marriage – that shit has been the hallmark of tabloids since she was Rachel on ‘Friends‘, with ‘FINALLY PREGNANT!’ mag covers hitting the stands practically like clockwork. It turned into something akin to ‘choosing sides’ when she split from her ex-husband Brad Pitt, over a decade ago.
This constant need we have to drag her into the Brangelina uncoupling even led husband Justin Theroux to be asked to comment on the divorce during the press tour for his new film, ‘The Girl on the Train‘.
“As a child of divorce, all I can say is that’s terrible news for those children and that’s all you can really say,” he said. “It’s boring to sort of comment on anything else. People are having a bad time. That’s horrible.”
As far as Theroux and Aniston are concerned, the latter gets adorably candid about their relationship in this new interview.
“Why is he the right person for me? All I know is that I feel completely seen, and adored, in no matter what state. There’s no part of me that I don’t feel comfortable showing, exposing. And it brings forth the best part of myself, because I care about him so much. And he’s such a good person. It hurts me to think of anything hurting him.”
Dawwwwww, you guys!
Photo: Marie Claire.
