I have often said I think Jennifer Aniston’s portrayal in the media as some sort of desperate pathetic lovelorn victim is ridiculous. And frankly it’s sexist – no way would you ever be reading about a single man her age in this “oh poor Jen” tone. If she were half as desperate as people like to paint her, she’d have a man. Plain and simple. Everyone can get someone. That’s different than looking for the right one. I think Jen is open about wanting love, but she’s happy where she is. Stop with the pathetic angle everyone, it’s annoying. Anyhoo, Jen agrees with me! Surprise surprise.
Jennifer Aniston just can’t win.
In an interview airing tonight, Aniston tells Daily 10’s Ben Lyons that even in her most recent spread with Elle magazine—that’s the one where her own best friend and producing partner conducted the interview—the gist of the article was off-base.
“It’s just their headline of ‘Lonely Girl’ that’s sort of bulls–t,” Aniston says. “I agreed to do it because how many times have I done an interview—every time—and you’re misquoted and stupid sound bites get taken out of context and all of that…still happened with this. It’s unavoidable.”
Still, the star keeps an optimistic outlook.“I’m not upset about it,” she says. “I just find it funny.”
[From E! News]
The only way I feel badly for Jen is that she’s been typecast as this desperate person, which I just don’t get. Ooooh, the nerve of a woman, to be single and 40! We better try to make her feel ashamed. Ridiculous. It does seem like no matter what she says or does, Jennifer’s going to be portrayed that way. I think part of it’s that she can come across as naively optimistic sometimes. But really, isn’t that better than angry and jaded? I have no opinions whatsoever on Brangelina nonsense so you can all calm down in advance. This isn’t even about that. Just let the girl be happy or say she’s happy.
In related news, Jen says she’s going to be taking a break for a while. She’s going to travel and throw herself into her production company, but says she won’t start another film project until at least January. Which is probably good. Since she tends to take romantic comedy roles, she gets asked about romance related to her movies way too much. I think everyone could sort of use a break at this point.
Here’s dog-lover Jennifer Aniston getting covered in slobber as she pets two dogs before heading to work on the set of ‘The Bounty’ on August 21st. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.
Yay!!!!! OMG. I just read a Jen article that didn’t leave me annoyed about the way she was getting depicted. I completely agree. “Just let the girl be happy or say she’s happy.” I love you so much, Jaybird!
Thank you….. i really enjoyed reading this article. :*
finally an article about aniston on this site that i agree with.
Yay squared 🙂
Yeah, I agree. Shit, if I looked like her I wouldn’t settle down either! I’d travel and get me some foreign hotness!
lem..i so gree with you on that statement.
THANK YOU jaybird…i find other writers on this can come down overly unfair towards her but are very light with other people when ALL stars are the same really.
JayBird, this is the best and most well thought out article on this woman I have yet to read… I was starting to think people were insane… good job!!
and no, I don’t hate AJ or love JA or anything of that sort… I just think she gets bulldozed by the public…like sunnysunday said, i pretty much dislike most celebritites… none particularly TOO much more than others…
renee, come back when you’re divorced, with two kids and a mortgage and see how well the prejudices you are putting up now against women work for you… :/
Mmm…I don’t know, I’d personally hate to be 40 and single, especially if I hadn’t had kids yet. But if she’s happy more power to her.
reneelucky7 – I hope your man doesn’t cheat or walk out on you and destroy your overly simplistic view on life and love.
Let Brad and all that sort of talk out of this, you don’t know about her not wanting a family, that is all gossip
They all moved on !!!!!!!
So move on and don’t talk about him !!
And my compliments on the story, it is written very well.
Reneelucky7 —
You literally missed the WHOOOOLE point of this post. But good luck anyway.
The funny thing is she had love in her life, she was married, and she was happy for a long time with that love. Now she chooses to be alone, maybe just so she finds the right person this time, and makes sure it is not someone that is going to cheat and hurt her. It doesn’t make her pathetic to shop around, and who cares how many guys she goes on a date with, she pretty, rich, single, and having fun!
I used to know this married couple where the man treated her like gold, so absolutely loving, romantic and sweet, even in front of me. But when he was alone with me he would make sexual advances. Don’t judge others for having missed their short window of opportunity, your world one day may be crushed by the truth.
reneelucky7- your life and her life (and anyone else’s life) cannot be compared to one another. believing in a window of opportunity is unfair and pushes women to think that if they aren’t married at a certain point in their life they are doomed. which is to put “single” in a negative light. great for you that you’re happy getting married, but its not for some people. she’s already been married and maybe she doesn’t want to get married again. you need to get over yourself if you have to criticize someone for finding happiness where you cannot.
“When men are looking to settle down- they are looking for young women with no baggage that they can share their live with.”
wow, way to over-generalize. “overly-simplistic” doesn’t say the half of it.
not ALL men feel that way. maybe yours does, though, and in a few years those predictions people made (which have ZERO importance to you but made you so mad you had comment anyway) will come true.
news flash sweetie…just because both sets of parents have been married for a long time does not guarantee that you’ll have a happy marriage.
oh, and it’s “utmost”, not “up most”.
(I weep for our future.)
I agree that Jen should not be made to feel bad bc she is single. BUT she helps that image along sometimes with her interviews. She also seems to stage relationships with co-stars a lot and Mayer? There is just no excuse for that!
I don’t care if she is single and never wants to have kids though – not everyone has the same idea of happiness.
If she finds it funny to be called the Lonely Girl, then why is she moaning about it in the press? She wouldn’t even bother if it didn’t bug her. Stupid comment on her part but she is always a media wh*ore regardless of how she tries to downplay all of it.
Great article. And I’m not even an Aniston fan.
I am not going to get into Renee’s silly statements too much but the length of your parent’s marriage and your fiance’s marriage has no bearing on the success of your own…that logic is just asinine.
And just because you never want to get a divorce does not mean you can prevent it from happening. AND I would assume that if you are getting married then you feel good about the success of your relationship unless you are just doing it for kicks…most people (but admittedly not everyone) go into marriage with good intentions.
Ok I said more than I intended and will now leave that poor kid Renee alone.
Reneelucky7: Come on, think about it. No one outside of your family really cares about your love life, so think twice about touting your fairy tale views here on a gossip site. You are setting yourself up to be ridiculed.
ho-hum:
you said that bloggers don’t have facts yet you are claiming to know that aniston does nude/nearly nude photo spreads in order to get back at brad… pray tell, where did you get those “facts”?
you claim that hate only hurts the hater, not the hated, so why do you hate on aniston so much? according to your logic, its only hurting you.
I don’t understand. She is the one that said it.. The magazine did not say it. She said it. So why is that bullsh*t. This woman has been around and understands how the game is played; and she plays it. I think the outcome was not what she expected so now she is upset. I see people like Drew, Cameron, Kate H, who go through men like tissue. NO ONE calles Drew lonely or a loser nor Kate H. Why because they own their single status. Not the media. They are in control. They can be with at man or not and the media accepts it and moves on. But with Jen.. she does not own her status. And she is older then all these women. I will take a Drew or Kate anyday. never heard Drew cry about a break up or divorce. Kate H can move on without the need to bash anyone; and Kate is a mother who had a divorce and is raising a child. She could have whined about about that. But NOPE nothing. She moved on and let it go. Her EX husband has a new relationship. Is she in need of a should to cry on.. HELL NO.. Kate is a maneater. No one feels sorry for Kate. Yeah.. I weep for Jen and the abuse she gets..
NOT
I’m sorry renee that you are 26 and still so naive… my parents have been married for 50 years… yet i don’t discount that people may face adversities in life that make it impossible to remain married… more than half of marriages end in divorce, so I cannot imagine that you have not faced the reality of the situation… jen is not the only older single lady on the planet, nor the first, nor will she be the last… and she is not the only person who will not be a 26 year old married by october….
please open up your eyes… not everyone’s life follows some formulaic standard… and besides, I’d like to ask why you’ve waited until you’re 26…shouldn’t a truly good woman be married barely out of her teens, be “pure” and have some kids by 26? quite frankly, your life is inadequate by those standards and I think you should be severely judged….
hohum, for someone who is talking about other peoples’ hatred, you are seriously full of venom… go take a second look at your dark side in the mirror before you start pointing fingers…
that is all… 🙂
Firstly, thank u 4 the first decent article on Jen. Secondly, Renee you are so lame. Sounds to me like your man is marrying you becoz his window of opportunity is closed. How shallow are you to condemn someone else to a life of loneliness because of rumours they chose a career over children?
lol renee, I’m not attacking you or predicting your future. I’m merely suggesting that there is a lot of gray areas in life.
Well now that I think of it you must be very immature and a little dead in the intelligence department, that’s why your mate is probably marrying you. It seems to me like if he wanted to he’d have an easy time walking all over you, since you wouldn’t want to ruin the fairy tale life you’re inventing for yourself to avoid any perceived loneliness.
Really you’re sounding like a victim here, my posts were mild before and our opinions on your views have nothing to do with you personally since I don’t even know you. You can get over yourself now.
Boomchaka:
You crack me up! to funny… 🙂
Renne: You have a very naive and simplistic view of relationships, if you had not stated your age, I would have thought you were a teenage bride.
Good luck with your marriage>
Agreed Catherine. Her friend did this interview. So, if she didn’t want to be portrayed as the lonely girl, WHY say you are ok w/it? WHY say you represent everyone like yourself? I’ve never heard Hudson, Diaz, Anne Hathaway ever b*tch and moan like this. She makes NO SENSE at all whatsoever. I think she’s a fameho who loves to use this portrayal to garner sympathy.
So Aniston is taking a “break” from acting, for all of three months. Personally, I wish she’d go away for a lot longer.
It’s funny that some of you are telling Renee that she doesn’t know enough about Jen or life to have an opinion but that’s not stopped you from judging her and her life. Isn’t it possible to disagree about Aniston without resorting to name calling?
Lisa, thank you.
LOL at Renee! And, sorry Ho-Hum, obsess much?? Do you know JA personally or just memorize each of her interviews? You people are hysterical. I’m sure JA is happy whether or not you want believe it. Being married with kids does not equal happiness for everyone. Get over yourselves. Stop thinking you know these people!
Didn’t she say she accepted the “lonely girl” label? And, then she said she stood for all people like her–“those not at their strongest.” How is that taken out of context? She doesn’t think before she speaks, then she blames the press for her own words. She did the same thing with the Vogue interview. She called what Angelina did as “uncool” and then blamed Vogue for going “tabloid,” saying “I don’t go there” on Oprah. How can you talk about something, then say you don’t go there?? She contradicts herself. To me, she’s barely one up from Jessica Simpson. They both did date John Mayer, after all.
hmmm, I think going around offending people who are over 26 and still not married or have an “unconventional” love life/history is a decidedly stupid move…
and stop nitpicking. The reason why no one says this crap about Drew or Kate is because no one cares about them and neither of them was married to Brad Pitt. Seriously, its a stupid comparision. I bet you dont go quoting Drew or Kate but yet you all remember some stupid arbitrary comment Jen made from 5 years ago. I’m not even a Jen fan but I think you haters are ridiculous. Why even read post about her?
Loser–why do you care about what people say? Why do you care if people dislike her? Sounds silly. As for Jen, in the interview, she complained about her depiction as the lonely girl. Now, she’s complaining that her comments on that were “taken out of context.” How? Maybe, she should stop obsessing over her image, stop complaining, and focus on being a better actress.
THANK YOU LISA! I completely agree. And, I like Drew, Kate and Cameron. They all seem like fun. Aniston seems like a “poor me” tool. I thinks it’s funny how all her fans feel you need to agree with how THEY see her. They all sound like narcissists. Sorry, it’s called a democracy. We have the right to like/dislike her. In my book, she ain’t all that.
Agree X 10 with Loser.
I’m not denying that there are some women who are not happy without a partner in life and can’t imagine life without one. If so, have one! Being happy is what counts.
Not everyone feels that way though – at 33, I am still much happier on my own than I am when I attempted to date and meet “the One.” I only tried it because there was enormous pressure on all sides telling me that is what I was supposed to want, and if I didn’t there was something wrong with me as a woman, and as a person.
There’s nothing wrong with me, I just don’t want or need a partner. Maybe one day that will change, maybe it won’t.
… of course at 33 I’m sure my “window of opportunity” has already closed, and I am doomed lo, to spinsterhood. I should probably start hoarding cats. Nooooooo, I’m allergic. 🙁
I don’t think it’s that anyone “cares” what the haters say… it’s only that a strong hateful diatribe often incites a strong response… or at least that is how i feel about the matter…
Rest assured, she does NOT find it funny.
She plays the game, but when it back fires or she can’t control it her way then she complains and plays victim.
Some of this must come from her representatives giving bad advice
Thank god some finally called these trashy tabloids out for the way they depict Aniston. We NEVER hear this type of depiction for Clooney, Butler, Pitt, etc….all of whom have had several romances in Hopllywood/the public eye but are depicted as playboys instead of as ‘lonely or desperate’ Quite frankly, I’m kinda jealous/admiring of her seemingly happy outlook on romance. The woman has hooked up with some of the HOTTEST guys in Hollywood. GO HER!!!
@ fizXgirl314: “Hateful diatribe”?
Isn’t that a matter of perspective? If you like her, then you’re biased and anything negative written about her is “hate-filled”, right? It’s funny how that works.
Great article JayBird!
I think Ms. Aniston is doing just fine!
To add my 2 cents to the debate…
I just wanted to say that I don’t think anyone enters marriage thinking that it will end in a divorce. However, divorce is something that happens frequently to couples (look at the divorce rate in various countries). Although I am not a Jen fan, I can’t fault her (or anyone else) for having gone through one, regardless of what the reasons were.
Reneelucky7 –Be grateful that you are happy now, and I hope that you can make your marriage work for the long term.
As a sidenote: I want to point out that ‘lurker’ on post #19 is not the same person that has been posting under that name previously (which was me).
karen… i don’t think that’s true.
in some cases it’s not about being biased for or against that person…there is somewhat of a hateful/angry tone to the person(s) in which she is referring to…
@Alison E:
i really like your point of view! i can identify myself with it. and i have to applaud you for your honesty.
my friends keep telling me that i have to date guys, ask why i am single and try to arrange dates with guys. i don’t want that!
i want to be on my own and control my life by myself. they think i have a problem or guys are just not that into me. it hurts…because i don’t want to be seen in that light. it’s not that there is nobody…it’s that i think relationships don’t work for me. i want to be independent.
same with kids. i don’t like kids. my female friends have children or are pregnant or want to get pregnant and they say things like: all women want children, i am no exception or they say that i just think that way i do because i am jelous.
why do people think a women in a relationship with a kid is a better women than she is as a single?
i wasted so much energy thinking about what people think or might of me as a single women that i dated guys…just to make them “happy”…not me.
because of that…i can somehow identify with aniston (but unlike me she said in the past that she wants children)
again…sorry for my english. not my mother-language.
but remembering every quote she has made or obsessively adding meaning to every move someone you’ve never met has made is a bit much…
Alone, lonely, party of one, etc…these are not nasty words!
They are part of all of us. Each and every one of us has played this part before.
lisa:
September 10th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Holy crap, an opinion I can get behind! LOL I completely agree, and I LOVE that you didn’t feel the need to actually TRASH the woman, either. I don’t care for Aniston at ALL and totally agree that she’s not the victim of the tabloids/circumstance but rather plays the game as hard as anyone, but the nasty comments that some leave are completely unnecessary. Tres bien, mon amie! 😀
love you jay-beezy.
cant. fing. take. anymore. aniston. or. brangelina. ENOUGH with these twits, the three of them! **DONT GIVE A HELL**
maybe the dingo ate your baby.
DD/You must be brain dead.
Karen/ i agree.
Aniston sets herself up to be lonely. She’ll never be happy.
Ms Aniston’s biggest mistake in life is: she let Brad Pitt to marry her first before he fell in love with Ms Jolie. It’s like a 911 incident. It will never stop haunting you the rest of your life.
In Asia, a big Hong Kong star Andy Lau (who is as big as Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise) only admitted he has a relationships with a girlfriend for 24 years. His excuse is because he doesn’t want his fans to be heart-broken, even gone crazy enough to commit suicide.
Before this secret love affairs, Andy Lau had another girlfriend Yu who is also an actress. Because their love affairs went publicly, the fans were attacking Yu in the streets, calling her a whore wherever she went, so she couldn’t handle it and asked to quit it.
After they broke up, every time Yu received an interview, journalists only asked her questions about Andy Lau. Seriously, for 25 years! They asked her nothing but only about Andy Lau. Poor home girl doesn’t have a chance to defend herself.
The media portrayed Yu as a “lonely girl”, “the woman Andy Lau dated once but abadoned”. They blamed her for talking about Andy Lau all the times…they mocked her for not getting over a relationships finished 25 years ago….etc etc
So when Andy Lau finally admitted a 24 year long secret relationships, he also admitted he actually signed a sort-of marriage certificate with Yu.
Now 46 year old, single with no child, Yu said she finally was released.
Somehow, this whole Jennifer Aniston debate in USA reminds me of this case in Asia.
For your reference.
Alison E – best we both give up now that our window of opportunity has closed. LOL. I honest to goodness don’t GET why young women can’t understand how its entirely possible to be happy and fulfilled without a man in our lives.
And Jaybird – fab article.
I don’t think she’s desperate; she’s just ambitious. She’s seems more career oriented than anything else. And she knows she has to play the Hollywood game which often involves hamming up her love life.
Having the public believe she’s a sad pathetic victim has done wonders for her career so I doubt very much that she dislikes having been perceived that way. She just has to come out every once in a while and say stuff like this so that she doesn’t cross the line to unattractively pathetic.
As it said in the article, everyone can find somebody. If she really wanted to, just judging from the relatively large social circles she runs in, she probably could’ve found someone by now.
I think it might have been the blatantly obvious fake relationship with Mayer that did her in. Her love life went from being a point of interest to just being a joke.
Cool write-up. I still dig her.
is this trick for real??? she is so vapid and a dullard in this interview!! a pathetic dumpee giving advice about love!!?? what a JOKE!
also is she high or drunk?? bit*h slurring her words and her mouth hardly moves!
I CALL BS on Aniston calling BS. Like they say–those who smelt it, dealt it. She seems to be the one bringing this stuff up all the time. If she doesn’t like the way it SMELLS, then she should STOP bringing it up. Focus on something better, for f*K’s sakes. She’s not proving anything, except that she cares WAY too much about what others say. Sounds like a CONTROL FREAK.
In the Elle article, Jen said: “I’m not going to ignore the pink elephant in the living room. It’s fine. I can take it. If I’m the emblem for ‘this is what it looks like to be the lonely girl getting on with her life,’ so be it.” How were her words taken out of context? I don’t understand her complaint? I think she’s just mad she said something kinda dumb.
a fun interview
http://www.hollywood.com/feature/THE_BACK_ROW_Adventures_With_Jennifer_Aniston/5697201
She just looks so fabulous. Who cares if she is not physically perfect or conforms to someone’s standard of what a woman her age should be doing? She is successful and seems happy. Yay for her.
Wow, tons of cosmetic surgery and makeup. Remember how arrogant this twat was when with Brad? Well, she’s back to being arrogant after having her natural ugly self altered. See she had the chin shaved down.
In all honesty, her true problem is that she is ugly and doesn’t have a good gene pool to offer up. No decent man will take the chance having kids with her. Sorry, but true. This is the base of her problem.
@TwinkeToes
yeah right hahahaha what a stupid comment lmao
Wow Lisa great post at 4:49 that was awesome.
Catherine, Ellie, Karen Boren already I remember her interviews giving off this lonely person image to, guess Jen people have convient memory lost. After Jen and her pr team are responsible for starting and fostering that image now They want to cry about it. Strange how Jen supporters just don’t get it, I guess they missed some of her interviews.
Oh well we should not be surprise at strange write ups and post during movie promotion time. Let’s see how much it help a bad movie.
Here’s what “taken out of context” really means:
OF COURSE, I didn’t say anything dumb, it’s the NASTY media’s fault for quoting the exact words out of my mouth making me sound bad, as usual! BAD MEDIA! BAD!
*celebs are funny that way
@fizXgirl314. Aren’t you the same person who said Victoria Beckham’s breasts are straining miserably against her orange skin for attention??? Yeah, you are the one to lecture us about “hateful diatribes.” Pleeeeese.
that’s a fun bitchy comment… I already said I hate celebrities… I just don’t hate any of them enough to go on this intense of a tirade..obsessing over every interview and adding meaning to their every move… that’s just… sad…. :/
people here have really sad deductive reasoning skills… :/
What happened to all of reneelucky7’s comments?
And while I’m at it, whatever happened to Syko?
And, thank god other people can see through Aniston. There are many ways a celebrity can avoid being questioned about certain topics; if they don’t want to talk about it, in most cases they don’t have to.
I got the desperate thing from Jen’s answers to questions she allowed during interviews.
What I don’t understand is the need to link her in a relationship with her co-stars.
I think Jen need another publicity agent then things would be better.
@fizXgirl314: Ok, other people’s comments are “sad” and “obsessive” but your comments are perfectly normal? I’m sorry you are a total hypocrite. Your comments on Beckham and others can be seen as equally pathetic or sad. Stop assuming people obsess over celebs more than you. Just because someone can remember a few celeb quotes doesn’t make them obsessive or whatever.
WHile it IS a good article I really wish she would settle down and find a good man. She really wants kids as she has stated numerous times. She just seems to have bad luck in the men she hooks up with. I think she would have adorable kids if she ever does. I hope whatever choices she makes she is happy in the end.