Jennifer Aniston, aka, America’s Sweetheart has been in the public eye for over three decades. Her colossal success on the hit television show Friends opened up the path for a career that doesn’t seem to slow down throughout the years. She’s currently filming season 3 of Apple TV’s The Morning Show which has gifted her with a Screen Actor Guild’s Award and earned her nominations for a Primetime Emmy and two Golden Globes.

She recently gave an interview to Allure, where she’s more open than ever about her personal struggles, giving us a glimpse of a Jennifer Aniston we don’t know, and who quickly becomes warm and relatable.

Up until now, all we knew about Jennifer Aniston’s personal life came from what we read in the tabloids. Presumptions about the reasons why she and Brad Pitt broke up flooded the internet. One of the reasons that seemed to gain credibility due to how many times it was spread, and you know, the illusory truth effect was at its best here, was that Jennifer Aniston didn’t want any children. But Aniston debunked this theory and told Allure:

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For years, the tabloids speculated about why her marriage to fellow actor Brad Pitt didn’t work out, blaming her for being selfish and only caring about her career, which she thoroughly denies. She confesses to getting frustrated with this false narrative, and that it finally triggered her to write the op-ed on the Huffington Post in 2016, criticizing the media for spreading unfounded gossip:

“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.’

She’s very active on Instagram, and promotions about her new hairline seem to pop up everywhere, but we learned that she hates social media, she actually feels like she’s not good at it. She confesses that the reason why she joined Instagram, where she now has over 40 million followers, was to launch her hairline, but that didn’t initially happen as planned because the pandemic hit, and she was then stuck being on Instagram.

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The actress also opens up about marriage, when asked if she would marry again, she replied:

The “girl next door,” who’s kept that title for over 30 years now, feels like she’s in a good place now. She says she went through really hard times in her 30s and 40s, but that it’s been a learning process for which she’s grateful and that it makes her who she is now.