Back in 2008, Jennifer Aniston was briefly linked to a grip on the set of her film Love Happens. Various sources claimed that at first she was trying to get on Aaron Eckhart, but she somehow ended up with this dude, Brian Bouma. There were some tabloid stories about how Brian and Aniston got close, briefly, in the tabloids, and they were even photographed together, exiting some Oscar party. If you’re anything like me, your first thought went to Aniston’s other seemingly random “boyfriend,” that British cokehead model Paul Sculfor. This is not the same dude – Paul Sculfor was her 2007 (Hired?) Date, Brian Bouma was the dude she boned in 2008, in between sessions with John Mayer.
Anyway, this Brian dude has given an “exclusive” to Star Magazine (via Radar) about his brief fling with Aniston in 2008. I don’t even know what this junk is about:
One of Jennifer Aniston’s ex lovers has broken his silence about their romance, offering a rare glimpse into the star’s life.
Brian Bouma, whose hookup with Jen was shrouded in secrecy, told the new issue of Star magazine that she aggressively pursued him on a movie set and prefers “bad boys.”
Bouma told Star that dating Jen,”was an overwhelming experience. I just want to set the record straight, she’s not the person people think she is.”
RadarOnline.com has an exclusive preview of Bouma’s cover-story interview with Star, and other than John Mayer’s infamous comments, he’s the first to detail what the Emmy Award winning Friends star is like out of the spotlight.
“She approached me,” he told the mag about the start of their fast romance.
Bouma was a lighting tech on the movie Love Happens when Aniston made it clear she was interested in him – only seven hours after spotting him on the set, he told the magazine.
“All that’s written about her being lonely is just ridiculous,” he told Star. “I didn’t spend time with Jen because she was famous or successful. I’ve been down that road before. It usually mean trouble with a capital T. It was because of the conversation that first time we spoke. She’s genuine, sincere and charismatic.”
Bouma dated Jen in 2008, meeting in Canada and then joining her in Los Angeles.
“It was an overwhelming experience,” Bouma told Star, explaining that Jen preferred ‘bad boys’ and he didn’t measure up.
“I guess she just wasn’t that into me,” he said. “She did tell me that I was too ‘Mr. Pure.’ She kind of made me feel and act like a young school boy.”
The breakup didn’t leave him bitter. “It would have been even better if I thought she was a jerk,” he told Star. “But she’s an amazing, beautiful and talented woman who’s sweet and kind and treats everyone, with respect.”
[From Radar]
His story sounds similar to that Us Weekly story about Aniston and Josh Hopkins – Aniston likes bad boy douches who treat her like crap, she loves to get laid, and she’s a lot dirtier than the “girl next door” image she projects and profits from. Brian’s story seems to be that Aniston is a nice person, that she is aggressive sexually, and that she tosses dudes aside for being too nice. Sure. I’ll buy that.
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I believe this totally.
Meh. Her whole girl next door, wants to have kids and live happily ever after, went up in a cloud of bong smoke about ten years ago. Even more so than “regular” people, celebrities need to be judged by what they do, not what they say. If J.A. wants to bang bad boys, I say go for it- she’s not going to be this pretty forever.
I believe it. And she’s still boring and annoying.
Who doesn’t????
So apparently we haven’t reached a point where a woman can ask a man out without being considered sexually aggressive? How very modern…
She may like “bad boys”, but they don’t seem to like her too much.
I believe Jen is a doll, kind, and great to be around, because no one has a bad thing to say about her. BUT, I believe as far as men she acts like she’s 30 instead of 40 something. She’s a sun-worshiping, pot-smoking, marguirita swilling, Mexico-vacationing, not too deep girl, and the men she goes for reflects that. But as adorable as she is, cute, amazing figure, the pool of men she wants is smaller and smaller, as they’re hitting on the 20-somethings. She needs to find a more mature man.
I wonder if she’s letting this new stuff leak because she plays a slutty,aggressive boss in Horrible Bosses???
I don’t have a problem with her for being aggressive good for her if that’s what makes her happy…I just hate the poor me I really want a baby someday but that bitch stole my husband P.R. she puts out whenever she has a new movie to sell.
Juliette Lewis has always said something similar – that Jennifer is hardly lonely, and goes through men like boxes of tissues. 🙂
Nothing wrong with that…if anything it makes her more appealing and less desperate/needy (take note, Love Hewitt).
Perhaps people will leave Brad and Angie alone – he is a nice guy who wanted kids while Jen wanted to party with bad boys with her new best friend chelsea handler. If only ‘Rachel’ had taken over Aniston.TEAM JOLIE!!!
I’ve started to warm to her a bit more now…………
Trouble with a capital T, !!! ha, this is awesome.
Another planted story by Jen’s people trying to make her seem anything but boring and fake.
Go Jen!!!
She is fabulous, 40 something, single vibrant woman, who is in her prime of life!
I am glad she is out there having fun…
So what if she isn’t meeting Mr. Right? At least she is having fun, with meeting Mr. Right now’s!!
More power to her! She is living her life according to what SHE wants, instead of what SOCIETY expects of her…..
Hahahhahahah Jennifer old Jennifer, and her problems with self-esteem
@ Janna
Well stated.
But her marriage broke up, she was publicly humiliated, and then decided to play the field and have a blast until she finds the right guy. What is weird about this? That doesn’t mean she doesn’t want to settle down someday. With her resources, she can have kids anytime in the next decade if she wants to. Should she marry the wrong guy (been there, done that) and pop out a few kids to make everyone happy?
And LOL about the sexually aggressive part. SHE approached HIM?!? WELL AAH NEVAH!
She prefers bad boys? What, is she 15 years old? Time to grow up Jen. And I co-sign what Janna said – the dating pool of bad boys is shrinking for her age group. She ain’t getting any younger even if she does look great for her age.
That top photo is oh so cruel.
What bs. You mean so called Hollywood Bad Boys? When does she really intermingle with working class guys. Vince Vaughan wasn’t a bad boy. John Mayer, you’re joking right? Charlie Sheen has his goddess, Sean Penn has Scarlett. I can’t imagine who she’d get with. It’s a smokescreen.
@Magsy I think VV qualifies as a bad boy because he is an infamous partier.. Mayer dumped her by press conference and she took him back and she was definitely clinging to him for dear life. BTW she’s only had one other public serious relationship besides Brad , Tate Donavon and he said pretty much the same thing he was uncerimoniously dumped and she isn’t as innocent as the P. R. she puts out there.
She makes him feel like a young school boy because he isn’t measuring up and he thinks she treats everyone with respect? That was a strange statement.
Janna: I believe as far as men she acts like she’s 30 instead of 40 something.
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She acts more like 16-something. Most women of 30 have long gotten over their bad-boy fascination.
I have always believed that Jen is a down to earth sweet woman who is happy with her life just the way it is… So what if she is sexual, smokes pot, drinks margaritas, and loves to vacation in Mexico..sounds like fun to me…you go girl!
Stop the presses. A nice girl who likes sex. Shocking. I could care less how many guys she hooks up with. By the way, don’t guys do this all the time? Talk about a double standard.
It’s not that I don’t believe it, and it’s not that he said anything bad about her, but I can’t stand people who kiss & tell. Seriously, he had the “need” to “set the record straight” about what & why exactly (except to collect some dough from Star Magazine).
And I say this as someone who isn’t really a Jen fan, but I’ve got sympathy for any woman who’s ex uses her for profit like this douche did.
I’m sorry, I don’t think Jens bad boys are all that bad. To me a bad boy is doing drugs & drinking to excess, getting arrested, breaking the law such as robbing banks, beating you up, sleeping with your best friend and mother, etc.
Jenns bad boys are pretty vanilla. Basically she wants a guy who emotionally treats her like crap which reinforces her negative opinion of herself as unlovable when the break up ultimately happens.
Atta girl
If Anniston wants to have a good time smoking different things, drinking and having sex, I say go for it. She is an adult, wealthy and free to do so. She should just accept it, say it out loud and be proud and not keep with the “I am so over my old marriage now, sweet girl next door, I am going to have babies and get married to the love of my life” stuff.
Good for her!
I always thought if I could be her at 40 with those resources and not married, I’d be doing the same thing. What else is she supposed to do? It’s like she gets knocked down either way, either she’s lonely and everyone talks crap or she’s out there enjoying her life and people still talk crap! she seems to be having a good time and not hurting anyone!
Explains her Ratpacky Vegas style house decor.
All around ick.
I’ve never understood why people think she is lonely. She seems like a happy person. I don’t know why people knock her lifestyle. She isn’t married, doesn’t have children, so she can do whatever she wants. There’s a lot of people who have kids, who wish they had her lifestyle.
I was fully expecting him to degrade her, and I was pleasantly surprised at the nice things he had to say about her. If she’s having a lot of fun and she’s made it her prerogative not to settle down, power to her. It’s her choice.
I don’t always think she’s the sharpest knife in the drawer when it comes to PR, and I do think that she was devastated by her husband cheating on her…to the point where it’s taken her years to really get over it (but then again, who wouldn’t take that long to get over it when you really love someone?), and I def. don’t appreciate her movies, for the most part, but I have to ask: WTF are some of you talking about with this whole “she constantly cries and tells everyone how lonely she is and clutches at her empty uterus and cries some more” shit? In almost every interview she’s ever given, she tells people that she’s feelin’ good and feelin’ happy. She says she’ll be a mother someday, and well…as long as she’s alive, she’s capable of being a mother in her sitch. And the only things she’s said about the divorce seemed really appropriate at the time. At least, to me. People are determined to see her as evil, when really, she’s just fun-loving and harmless. And kind-of a mediocre actress. Just like the same people are determined to see Jolie as God, when really, she just seems cunning and a little on the shady side. Oh…and kind-of a mediocre actress. I don’t get it. Call it like you see it and don’t read into it further. How hard is that?
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Juliette Lewis say nothing but nice things about her also? Perhaps she wasn’t calling Aniston a slut so much as she was puzzling at the public’s insistant claim that she’s lonley? I don’t know. Maybe she bagged on her. They seemed chummy enough in photos.
I don’t believe the rags.. Enough said.
Jennifer said in an interview that she is not aggressive. That she doesn’t like dating. That she doesn’t like asking men out. She also said she had not dated in over a year.
none of her comments fit what is being said about her being aggressive and liking bad boys. Either she is lying or someone else is lying. So many contrasting stories about her. She has never struck me as a person that is Sexual in anyway. Regardless of her previous relationships. Either being with Mayer they looked more like prom dates them anything. But hey maybe she is a tiger under the sheets.
But I doubt it. Not a fan of hers at all, and I don’t believe the tabloid stories no matter what they say.
Nobody is knocking Jennifer’s life. What people are knocking is the fake image she and her PR team feeds the public. True Jennifer always says she’s happy but she always follows it up with she can’t wait to get married and have kids. Although her fake image wouldn’t work if people weren’t so gullible. You would think that the PR wouldn’t work considering she dates Vince Vaughn and John Mayer and friends with people like Chelsea Handler. Obviously she’s not the delicate flower people think she is.
If she is so happy, why is it that she comes across in any photo or interview as desperate. Different partners every week and constant partying does not read as happy. Have u ever heard her in an interview? She has absolutely nothing to talk about. She has the emotional maturity of a 16 year old. It seems pretty obvious that she goes thru men like kleenix because nobody wants to be with her long term.
As for the people who say she looks so great for her age, all I see is an ordinary looking woman who has spent too much time in the sun, is bloated from booze, has lost her radiance, and desperately needs a makeover. Even her fashion style is highly overrated.
@lisa and Vesper: Agree with *everything* you both said 100%. Great comments. 🙂
“Too Pure” is code for NOT crazy enough, or famous enough. She wants bad boys–the kind that finger her private parts in public 🙂
I agree with the last few posters. In her interviews, she’s chats up babies, marriage, long-term relationships, etc. Just a bunch of blather designed to appeal to fans. It’s hard to take someone that fake seriously.
The tabloids love to insist she is desperate and lonely. Everyone thinks this is a PR scheme to keep her likeable. However, she always (to me, at least) come across happy and fun in interviews that is opposite of the tabloid image. But most of you still read “desperate” no matter what she does. She’s rich and single, who cares what type of men she goes for. She’s not hurting anyone.
Nice to see that she hangs out with Brad’s other ex (Juliette Lewis) Wonder if she and Gywneth will ever hang out.
I also take “too pure” (eye roll) as not being famous enough. She wants someone famous. A-list or a hot up and comer. That’s why she got with Vince, til he dumped her. The model was a nobody, just a booty call like this Brian guy. She ran after Mayer twice til he dumped her…twice. She let Gerard Butler finger her. No woman would allow a man to do that unless he and she was accustomed to it, until he moved on. Chased B. Cooper but lost to Renee. Her window of opportunity is closing fast.
@Newbie
amen
Newbie (#33)
Couldn’t agree more. Those hating on her are twisting/exaggerating things she’s said in response to the questions she’s repeatedly asked. She’s never once said she desperately wants any of these things *right now.* She’s said at some point in the future. So she’s taking her time. Smart woman. And I’m shocked at the fact that some women don’t think other women have the right to say two words about *their own freaking divorce*. Like her feelings don’t matter because you like her replacement better. Nice.
She is FAR from the ‘down to earth’ ‘sweet girl’ she MANIPULATES the gullible fans to believe. And anyone that isn’t brainwashed and manipulated can see her for what she truly is. Lets face it, she is the Hollywood town bike and has admitted she got to the top by being F’able, sleeping her way to the top. She is greasy and easy and sleazy. But more than that, she is extremely manipulative and the gullible and starry-eyed idolizers fall for her bs because they are too brainwashed to see through her manipulative fake phoniness. She is as phony as a 3 dollar bill and Paris Hilton has more moral and truthful credibility than Aniston. I pity the those that fell for her phony fake ACT. She is just a 2 bit who trapped Brad for the keys to Hollywood and beeped her way to the top. Anyone that isn’t manipulated and brainwashed can see this. Oh, and Newbie? Just because Jen’s pr sympathy ploy to convince you she was ‘devastated’ by her marriage breakup (its been established that no cheating happened, no matter how determined you are to believe the worst of Brad and Angelina and that Jen is a God) when she threw Brad away for a career, doesn’t make it true. She is highly manipulative and she really reeled you in hook line and sinker.
In 20 years she’s going for bad Grandpas. Good luck with it.
I’ve known women like them. They’re attracted to losers and wonder why they can’t have successful relationships.
@ tracking – Just because some of us don’t admire Jen is not the same as “hating on”. My point was that her interviews are so shallow that she doesn’t say anything about anything. If she does mention marriage, or children she touches on it in one sentence than quickly moves on to something else, usually whatever movie she is plugging.
Taking ur time finding a partner is one thing, but u can do that without sleeping with every available actor in LA. Does she ever do anything that doesn’t involve men or partying? I’ve never heard her talk about hobbies (besides working out), and she doesn’t travel (for fun, as she put it, with the exception of Mexico. It’s a future goal, apparently) As for having a child, isn’t she 43 or so? Being a heavy smoker and drinker isn’t going to help her get pregnant, and even using alternate reproductive technologies there is only so long one can realistically wait.
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How in the hell did this:
“It was because of the conversation that first time we spoke. She’s genuine, sincere and charismatic.”
Get turned into this???!!
“Aniston likes bad boy douches who treat her like crap, she loves to get laid, and she’s a lot dirtier than the “girl next door” image she projects and profits from”
I mean, I know this is an anti Jen site and a freaking blog, not news of any sort, but damn!
And then there are all the “shallow” comments because she isn’t married with kids, as if all women must do that. Sheesh. Not all women need or should have kids. I can think of at least 30 women I’ve known in my life who followed that formula because it was expected of them and are the most horrid mothers in the world. I’ve been their neighbor and taught their children and it ain’t a pretty picture.
I’m with mln76 – I think she’s tweaking her image, she’s been too goodgirl and boring and so have her recent films, it’s time to play up the bad girl.
How much did her publicist pay this guy to “tell all”?