Jennifer Aniston was on the Rachael Ray show yesterday and I finally got a chance to see it. We heard some advance details, that she said it was “weird’ to be over 40 and be forever labeled as such. She said a few more things that I found interesting. First off, when asked about her resolutions she said she’d like to travel. I was going to say that’s rich coming from a woman who goes to the same resort in Cabo San Lucas year after year, but maybe it’s a resolution for her because she would find it a challenge. Like to me losing 10 pounds is a resolution and I could travel any day, but I’m not a creature of habit like Aniston, who finds comfort in the familiar and keeps healthy habits.
On her resolution this year.
“For instance, I want to travel for fun, and I’ve been saying that for years. I’ve made room for it this year.”On who she is rooting for at the Oscars
“David Fincher, Social Network. That’s just a brilliant movie. [Alan Sorkin] Imagine that brain to write that.”On if she can go incognito
“If you can get away from those photographers, the shutterbugs, you can go anywhere, people are lovely. Fans are great, and I think it’s dying down a little bit. I’m gonna just put that out there. In hoping that… what is that book.. positive thinking? Yeah.”On being over 40
Ray said that people bug her about being over 40 and asking her whether she’s going to have kids. Aniston said “You’re a label when you’re 40… All of a sudden it’s like ‘Wow, for your age, not so bad.'”On her costars
“[Brooklyn Decker] really held her own. She was adorable. [Nicole Kidman] is such a laugh riot. Nobody expected it.”On thinking about her diet and exercise
“It’s a really balanced diet. I’m not a sweets person… I don’t work out very day but I will try to do something [like] stretching.”On what she’s self conscious about
My tush has been an extra area that I’d love to work on. Isn’t that everybody’s?Her favorite shows on TV now
“Intervention” and “Heavy”On what she’d do if she wasn’t an actress
“A doctor of some sort… I was always very into medical shows and stuff like that. I was fascinated with the body, I excelled in that. [in school]”
[From The Rachael Ray show, aired 2-16-11]
She came off pretty well on Rachael Ray, except for the part where she couldn’t figure out which new age concept she was referencing by saying she was putting something “out there.” Maybe because that refers to just about every self help book in the world. She still stumbles over her words a lot, but as I’ve said before she’s been that way for a while. A friend of mine had that problem when she switched to a new antidepressant so something like that could be Jennifer’s problem. Or… she could be drunk. Who knows?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I think you are on the right track with the medication, I have had that happen to me on and off through life.
She consistently gives great hair. If she and Jolie had a hair-off, JA would win.
@renai: Right, Obama is to blame for everything, including the hole in the ozone layer. Get a freaking life, will you? There are plenty of travel destinations that are well within the financial reach of the middle class, if you weren’t too lazy to Google them.
time to bring on the 30.. 40.. 50+ comments that all say “who cares??” 🙂
Traveling for fun can be a transformative experience, if you don’t limit yourself to five-star hotels and isolate yourself from the ordinary people who live in the country. I spent two weeks in Malaysia living with an overseas Chinese family in 2000 and it was one of the best experiences of my life. We traveled all over the country from Kuala Lumpur to Penang to Langkawi and several other places. And OMG the FOOD!! I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.
Doesn’t she always travel for fun? Don’t tell me she’s working every time we see her in mexico!
Seriously…Obama has prevented you from taking a vacation, Renai? Give me a break. How about blaming yourself for living beyond your means and not saving appropriately? Take accountability.
And yes…lots of affordable vacations for the middle class and so many resources out there to help you save and plan appropriately. Google!!!
@Cheyenne, my best friend is half Malaysian and we are planning to go visit her family this summer, the one thing both she and my sister who went there on her gap year kept raving on about was the food and how cheap it is, so looking forward to it
good for him
Re travelling, she says this, but will she actually do it? Or just go to a different Mexican resport? To me, travelling is not something you put off, you just do it, if it’s something you love, you find time for it, you fit it in. I did and do and it can be as cheap or expensive as you make it. And sometimes the cheap ways turn into the best adventures.
Surely she’s had time to travel over the last 10 years if she really wanted to? I bet she won’t, she strikes me as being way too fond of being in her comfort zone.
Well, she’s travelling to New York! Aparently she’s selling her newly remodeled house and wants to go live in New York.
@girafe99: Enjoy your trip. The food is absolutely scrumptious, and all that fresh exotic fruit is delicious beyond description. We had dim sum for breakfast every morning. YUM!!
How old is she exactly, 87 ? No ?
Going to ask my grandma
Can “renai” get a permanent ban yet?
She wants to “travel for fun”??????
What is she, 17 years old?
I remember when I was younger I did those lists with things I meant to do, things I fancied I want to do like learning another language, starting some training, writing a book and so on. I stoped doing it after I found the list that was several years old and realized that it was almost exact copy of the most recent one I was so proud of.
When you really do want something you just go and do it, not compose lists or make resolutions. She wanted to be an actress and she is, she cares about her looks and she works on her banging body, she enjoys her annual Cabo trips and she bought/rented a house there so that she can go any time. So if she really wanted to travel for fun (or have kids for that matter) she’d have done it already.
I can see how it’s really weird for her to be over 40 since she comes off as really immature. Looks like she didn’t do any growing up since being in her 20s.
Jennifer Aniston is no doubt a pretty woman, but not much of an adventurer is she? Oh well, everyone’s got different comfort zones, and she might feel uncomfortable going to places that are new. I’m not the biggest on traveling either, and it took a while for me to get out of my comfort zone.
I did manage to get a stomach bug from drinking the contaminated water, but damn, I had mucho fun in India the days I wasn’t sick.
I don’t know, I would call it discipline not necessarily comfort. I wish I had an ounce of her willpower in regards to diet and exercise. Cabo, not so much….
“I want to travel for fun”
Don’t we all Jenny? Don’t we all. So many places I’d love to visit. Alas, I haven’t a quarter of your money or opportunities.
@bite me: LOL!
Yes good for her, I hope she has a marvellous time and has some funny stories to tell for her next batch of PR rounds for her next movie. 😀
OT: I think Demi Moore has much, much better hair than JA. JA’s hair looks like a fried and flyaway mess in these photos.
And to the poster comparing AJ and JA- give it a rest!!
I remember reading a while back that Jen is afraid to fly. She has panic attacks over flying. If this is the case then yes…I can see her wanting to overcome this fear & actually travel for fun without the worry of flying. And look at that face & bod. She’s no drunk.
yup…here is a link about her fear of flying. No wonder she goes to Cabo over & over again. It is just a hopper flight from LA.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/2006-05/30/content_604269.htm
@spinner: She doesn’t have to fly. She’s right on the Pacific coast so she could take a cruise someplace. Or get in one of her cars and drive down the Pan American Highway visiting all the countries in Central and South America.
spinner, please don’t bring logic or facts into an Aniston thread.
some posters’ heads might explode. and no reason is good enough to stop the hate.
not liking her hair that shade…TOO blond.
@Spinner – Sorry, not buying that as an excuse. That’s not a fear of flying, that’s just bog standard caution after you go through a hairy experience. If it was a genuine fear, she wouldn’t be able to get on a plane. She’s been to Europe loads of times on PR jaunts for movies. Like I said, comfort zones, and she’s stuck firmly in hers.
I think she likes the idea of ‘travel for fun’, rather than the reality of doing it. The idea gives her something to talk about in the absence of it ever actually becoming a reality.
Travel for fun? What was she doing in all of those other vacation pics? What does she mean?
Hmm, I’m afraid of flying too (it sucks) and have to dope up to make it comfortable for me and my fellow passengers. But I still fly.
I know people who go to the exact same vacation spot every year. EVERY YEAR. I like to switch it up. Even if I go to the same city I want to stay at a different hotel or something.
I think Jen is attractive — she’s not a classic beauty but she does well with what she’s got. She at least knows how to dress herself pretty well.
@ White Noise
She talked about her fear of flying on Leno over the summer.
I don’t disagree with you about her general fear of change that’s pretty obvious.
I think she meant f*ck for fun.
Okay I don’t understand why none of you folks have commented on the fact that she said she would have liked to have been a Doctor…..
With her brainpower?
Sorry but..MwaHHAHHHAA!!!
She has the same resolutions every time she does press for a film. A few years ago it was also “move to NYC, travel for fun and I will have babies”. She does not have to do anything she does not want to, including having children as many people don’t want them either, but she does not have to keep saying she is going to do something she is not going to do.
If she only wants to go to Mexico for vacations, then that is fine, I see no problem with that at all, but just stop insisting that “yes, this year, I will travel for fun” just to say it, just do it already. I am terrified of flying (I squeezed a pack of peanuts into peanut butter during some turbulence), but I have to for work, so, believe me, it is possible to do many things, if that is what you really and truly want.
oh god, are we now worried whether she’ll stick to her word on travel? This is going to be another interesting year for blogs about Aniston. We can now add whether she really wants to really travel to our long list of Aniston wants, along with of course the regular topics of whether she really wants to really have a child, or really wants to really get a man.
I want to know what Renai said. 🙂
@Jenny – exactly.
Maybe she interviews better w/women…
i mean, she was always relaxed with Oprah….and maybe that daytime talk set is more her thing than the glaring lights of late night t.v. and their male hosts? except for chelsea, of course-lol…
she strikes me as somewhat shy, to be honest. i dont think she likes being interviewed and stared at….
vs. filming which is completely different experience.
@melinda – ME TOO! 😀
Well, good for her.
But does she really believe that she has the intellect to have made it as “a doctor of some sort” if she wasn’t into acting?
No one else does.
@Melinda and Raven: She said she can not go on vacation because Obama jacked the economy. OT~ I think Aniston is extremly private (and rightfully so)so she makes up soundbites for interviews.
Like Jennifer said she’s been saying this for years. It’s funny that people are finally calling her out on her claims(traveling, kids). I doubt anybody cares that Jennifer doesn’t want kids or to travel. It’s the fact for years she claims this is what she wants when it’s obvious that it isn’t.
@ melinda, me three. It sounds “interesting”.
I have the same confusion with her travel for fun comment. I’m not big on the JA-AJ stuff (I didn’t think she was having a dig at AJ on The View like a lot did, when she said a wedding ring means a man is off-limits) but I do wonder about the travel comment. Does she mean travel around the world without trying to save it? Could be nothing.
I don’t think she’s necessarily medicated or drunk (causing word tripping) I think she’s like some actors who can’t talk properly or have anything interesting to say without the words scripted in front of them.
I agree it is like she has a script she reads from. She has been talking about traveling for ages..YET she doesn’t. She talks and talks and talks.
So as they say.. either piss or get off the pot.
@ Praise St Angie…I promise – I will never bring logic or facts into an Aniston thread ever again. Dang!!
Thanks for the heads’ up.
“oh god, are we now worried whether she’ll stick to her word on travel?”
yeah, I kinda can’t believe that ridiculousness either. how many of us have made a “resolution” repeatedly and not stuck to it, no matter how often it’s made?!
I’m amazed that people who clearly don’t like her seem to hang on her every word.
@ Praise: I call hangers-on ‘dingleberries’.
Jennifer is a beautiful woman with a self-deprecating sense of humor, what’s not to like? Really don’t understand the hate directed at her.
The ‘travel for fun’ comment is interesting. I’m wondering if Brad mentioned this to her at some point, since he and his brood seem to always be traveling for work related purposes. Perhaps she was repeating something from a conversation with him and is putting a little ‘shout out’ in there. If so, how funny!
Just my opinion..
She gets asked the same retarded boring questions interview after interview.
I dont think she is drunk or on meds.
As for the girl who said she would do alot of traveling too..with 1/4 of the money.
Listen babe, if you produce you get paid.
If you had 1/4 of the talent Jen had..you’d get to do all the fun stuff.
Not very nice of any of you.
she sounds like she lives a very restricted life- crazy if i had her means i would travel ALL THE TIME. she probably doesn’t like to go to places she doesn’t know. jen is probably not the sharpest tool in the shed and i imagine her to be one of those girls that cannot make a decision even if her life depended upon it- be it clothes, haircolour, meals or something. i bet she is annoying the hell out of you and making it up to you with a girlish smile “i cannot help it”
Thanks Melanie. That’s a really stupid statement. It’s funny, because I was in Europe on vacation when the economy went down the toilet in 2008. It was weird watching everything fall apart from another country, and if I remember correctly, Obama was running for President at the time. That means that the economy tanked BEFORE he took office. I love it when people blame others because they can’t get their act together.
Oh my god, JA is literally the most boring woman on the planet. In interviews she actually comes off as far more elitist and self-absorbed than Gwyneth, who at least is sort of interested in the world. Maybe Jen is raunchy good fun in private but I doubt it. No wonder she can’t keep a man.
Thanks Melanie!
Debra
You’re kind of condescending, aren’t you?
She has Just-Fucked Hair. I love the color, too. Which is good because tho she’s rocking a killer body, she’s just so damn boring. And Debra, “babe”, you’re on a gossip site. The best on the web. Get used to us being bitchy and not nice. You want generic, go play virtual bubble wrap.
Jen A has said in a past interview, I think, that she has travelled for work at times-but never gets to see any of the places….of course, this was a few years ago, at leats, and she still hasn’t made the time to see these places…
like others, i think she is taking the work while she can get it-she spend a few years transitioning to film from t.v. and then taking the roles she could.
that’s my take.
and,i also think she doesnt really tak about herself for real-she sticks witht eh boring script that gives an illusion of intimacy. but we don’t really know her.
that’s my opinion.
and my opinion of her overall is rather neutral. she doesn’t evoke love or hate in me. she seems likeable, and this is why i think she sells…she’s not threatening as a presence in any way….
so onscreen she certainly won’t upstage the lead(s)….
Those types of actors are needed-so good for her for playing those roles.
@ CB “[From The Rachael Ray show, aired 2-16-11]” Hahahaha, that is hilarious CB. Well said!!
I say JA and Megan Fox just do not give interviews anymore. They just ruin it.
“she probably doesn’t like to go to places she doesn’t know.” Personally, my only criteria when traveling.l Why go somewhere you’ve been? Life is short, you must take advantage of it to learn as much as you can.
I freaking heart you, Jen, just for rooting for The Social Network! It totally deserves the Oscar for Best Picture. From the bottom of my heart, however, please stop making crappy movies. I love Jen and Jen’s personality and her movie Breakup was actually quite a good movie, but after that her movies are all near-disasters
Good thing she’s watching “Intervention”.
God, she has great hair.
Two things: I think her interviews are perceived as boring because as as someone said above, she is a private person, and doesn’t feel the need to talk endlessly about her personal life. She is actually quite good at dodging personal questions if you’ll notice or not answering directly. Everything she says is already being dissected and over-analysed, why would she tell personal stories or her views on issues and give the paparrazzi and audiences more things to criticize her over. So she gives platitudes and stays on the surface. I think she is absolutely right to do so, keep personal things personal!
Second point I wanted to make: so she’s been saying she wants to travel and have a baby and because it hasn’t happened yet, she’s a liar, according to the brangeloonies?? What about your pretty boy Brad Pitt who’s been saying for years he would/had quit smoking for the sake of his children, and obviously, according to recent pictures, he hasn’t… I am not criticizing him for it, it’s his life, I don’ care, but I just want to showcase the hypocrisy of some of the fans who will chastise someone they don’t like for claiming something and not following through, while they could apply their reasoning to their idol, but somehow he is above reproach…
She looks more beautiful to me now than on Friends.
Why’d she give it up to John Mayer? She must be embarrassed about that … just putting it out to her universe.
Ugh. Again with the travel nonsense. Instead of defaulting to Cabo, just get your assistant to book anywhere else on the planet. I want to travel more and I’m comparatively poorly travelled in comparison to many of my peers, but I don’t have this woman’s wealth or flexible job and live in one of the most expensive countries on the planet, so she can just shove it frankly.
As for whether she was on medication (or inebriated) – neither, she is just incredibly inarticulate and trades on this scatterbrain persona.
It’s a shock to see just how daffy some of these stars are in real life. I remember watching Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” and couldn’t believe this ditz was out of her 20s. Especially when Matthew Broderick was so articulate.
@vanessa.
so what exactly does Brad Pitt have to do with this thread. YOU call the JP fans loonie.. yet the Aniston fans are quick to bring them up.
That is the height of loonieness. POT meet Kettle.. you got your dig in per usual.
oh.. Brad didn’t leave you. LET GO THE HATE.
@Lisa
I do not have a vested interest in BP/AJ/JA, nor do I “hate” anyone. and if I understand right, brangeloonies is a term to describe the most extreme fans of AJ and BP, at least according to the urban dictionary, not the regular fans… It’s just for fun, this is a celeb gossip site, it’s really not that serious. I brought up BP because the people who criticize JA for not following through with her statements tend to be MOSTLY BP/AJ fans. Doubt it? Just check any old BP/AJ/JA thread to see the same names defending one and criticizing the other. I was just saying it is hypocritical to chastize JA, call her a liar, say that if she really wanted kids, she would already, etc…while at the same time not doing the same to BP only because you’re a fan. Peace.
@Vanessa – Totally agree.
I think it would be good for her to go travelling. So she cant make anymore films lol. Sorry Jen, you were great in Friends and the guest spot on South Park but please dont make anymore romcoms. PLEASE!!!
From personal experience, I am on a migraine preventative that causes you to lose the word you want to use right in the middle of a conversation. Sometimes it is worse than others, and at those times I am sure I sound like a total ditz, but the alternative is crushing/on the floor/vomiting migraines, so I choose the ditz alternative.
What in the world does the inability to kick an insideous habit like nicotine have to do with whether someone travels or has kids? They are hardly comparable.
For all we know Pitt HAS stopped his prior cigarette habit and only occasionally indulges. That alone is a HUGE change for a long term smoker.
It seems like Aniston has been talking about realy wanting to have children since at least 2000. She was with Pitt for plenty long to have had a kid if she wanted one. Her career wasn’t sytanding in her way. Both her Friends costars managed to have children and act in feature films while they were starring in that sitcom. She is also not hampered by the problems that prospective single mothers have; lack of resources. She has had 6 years to get her act together since her marriage ended all the while publicly – NOT keeping it private at all – proclaiming she was going to have a child.
If she really wanted a child she would have had one by now. I hope to god that she doesn’t have one now just to prove a point. It’s a person’s actions that show who they are – not their talk and certainly not their PR messages.
Vanessa I also have quit smoking several times in my life and restarted. Once I quit for 10 years.I guess you consider me a liar or a hypocrite because I had a relapse.I’m sure someone on here has said they were going to lose weight lost it and regained it. Are they liars or hypocrites? I’m sorry I can’t be like you, perfect. Sometimes I fail.BTW Brad said he quit smoking” pot” for his kids on Bill Maher in 2009 show not cigarettes.
@Kim:
He also acknowledges that becoming a father inspired him to give up a deadly 20-year habit. “I quit smoking,” he says when asked how family life has changed him. “That was the only thing that got me to quit. That was it. Done.”
http://www.wmagazine.com/celebrities/2009/02/brad_pitt?currentPage=5
OK Olivia I only saw the Maher interview, nonetheless I have “quit” smoking 6 times.I guess there are some people who can quit smoking and never relapse. Unfortunately I’m not one of them I still don’t think I’m a hypocrite. Others may disagree. BTW thanks for linking me to that interview I’ve never seen it before. Have a nice day.Oh yeah I have also quit going to the gym 3 times a week.(smile)
Kim, read again, you didn’t understand what I said. I did NOT say that Brad, or anyone who makes resolutions and doesn’t follow through is a liar or a hypocrite. I said that the PEOPLE, who are mostly BP/AJ fans and who say JA must be lying to appease her fans because she hasn’t had a baby yet, when she said she would, all the while making excuses for BP when he said he had quit and he’s been photographed smoking, THOSE PEOPLE, are the hypocrites. I suppose it must be hard to quit smoking and I don’t begrudge him for it, I really don’t care enough to. I just am trying to show how fans will make excuses for the people they like, for the same behavior that they criticize others they don’t like for. We don’t know why BP is smoking, if he stopped, if he relapsed, and we also don’t know if JA is having fertility issues, waiting to have a husband, or whatever before having a baby. We have no idea, so it would be nice to be fair…
Oh yeah I misread it
I can see her a doctor actually. She would probably be really good at it (funny bedside manner and all of that)
I do like Aniston a lot, loved her in friends and all of that, but lately she just looks so strange in like every interview. Her eyes seem to take on some scary manic look and her face looks like it’s made of rubber. I definitely think she enjoys more than one or two drinks before going on a show because she looks great in her photos. I definitely think the caramel or darker blonde is her colour too. 🙂
@Katherin Mac: I dunno, maybe she is waiting for the right guy to come along to have a child with. Not all women are fine with being single mothers.
Kim, hang in there. I must have quit smoking a dozen times before I quit for good, and I was doing two packs a day. I haven’t smoked for over 20 years. Keep trying. You can do it.
Don’t feel guilty about quitting the gym; my doctor says the best exercise is walking and climbing stairs. You can do that anywhere and unlike the gym, it doesn’t cost a dime.
On the last pic she is so amazingly beautiful.. She is the best
You call drinking, tanning your skin to leather, and smoking a ‘healthy habit’ celebitchy? She looks around 54 years old.
Vanessa, Aniston has NEVER been private about her life, in fact she is well-known for discussing it and milking it for attention. You must know a different Aniston than the rest of us. Or is it just another Loonifer in denial? Of course you’re a Loonifer in denial. Your NEED to drag up Brangelina and compare Brad to Aniston just to some how validate Aniston is desperate and pathetic. Oh, and calling him ‘pretty boy’? Talk about a Loonifer full of HATE who can’t let go.
Katherine Mac, “What in the world does the inability to kick an insideous habit like nicotine have to do with whether someone travels or has kids? They are hardly comparable.”
Never underestimate the desperation of the Loonifers to drag up Angelina and/or Brad at ANY given opportunity even if not part of the article. They are OBSESSED with hating Brangelina. Any logic is no place for Aniston threads.
Crash2GO2, “Not all women are fine with being single mothers.”
Aniston clearly is. Remember how she was defending women being single working mums when her turkey baster movie came out? And how she got into that thing with Bill O’Reilley about it? She has said SO many times a woman doesn’t need a man to be a mother, so please don’t misrepresent her.
Ugh, internet connection mucking up means I was too late to add my edit to my reply to Vanessa.
Edit: besides, I believe Brad’s comment about giving up the smoking for his children referred to him giving up smoking the weed. Not cigarettes. So, entirely irrelevant after all. But, never understimate a loonifer’s desperation to insert an attack against Brangelina in an Aniston thread.
This tedious woman has been making millions for almost two decades — and SHE JUST discovered traveling for fun!! Please tell me one of her endlessly lame PR team planted this dumb comment. I can’t believe she is this stupid!!
If she wants to travel for fun, why doesn’t she? She has enough down time.
I want to go to Tahiti. Heck, I’d even take my husband along.
@Vanessa: most of us get the point that you’re trying to make. It’s not going to be understood by anyone looking for a glass half-empty. For your sake, I’d stop trying.
I’d never have a baby without a father. I ain’t judging people who do, but it’s my choice, and for all we know, it could be her choice too. Leave her alone about it.
Dear Jen: PLEASE stop making rom-coms. You seem like a nice chick, and you’re not deserving of all the internet hate. But PLEASE stop. It’s nauseating.