Jennifer Aniston gets a lot of crap about her rarely-changing style, but I have a confession: I haven’t had my hair cut above my shoulders in more than a decade. I love long hair. I love having long hair. I have no desire to cut my hair shorter than a few inches below my shoulders. Part of that is practicality – when I’m at the gym or running around in the summer, my hair needs to be long enough for everything to go into a ponytail or a big hair clip.
So I don’t judge Jennifer Aniston for liking long hair, or for having second thoughts after chopping her hair off after a “Brazilian chemical treatment” went awry and burned off some of her hair. I do however judge her for the chemical treatment – especially when she’s been shilling Living Proof as “the answer” to all her hair needs. I also sort of judge her for making such a big deal about loving her short hair and how she felt hip and cool and now it looks like she’s gone back and gotten extensions. The photos of Aniston with Ellen and Portia are from this weekend – Aniston’s “hair” is magically “back”.
Just weeks after chopping off her luscious locks, Jennifer Aniston stepped out over the weekend sporting long extensions because the former Friends actress hated the short hairdo, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting. As Radar has reported, Aniston said the cut was a necessity after her hair was damaged by a Brazilian Blowout.
“Jen had been complaining to friends that she didn’t like the short hairdo…she thought she wanted a drastic change, but felt it wasn’t the right look for her. Instead of just growing her hair out, Jen opted to have hair extensions put back in, which she has utilized in the past,” a source told Radar.
“The entire process to put the extensions in took over five hours because of the amount of extensions she needed. If Jen was trying to have healthier hair, well, it’s not going to happen with those extensions.”
After Aniston cut her hair, stylists called foul on Brad Pitt‘s ex-wife, for claiming her new “chewed-up bob” – as her longtime hairstylist is calling it – is the result of a bad Brazilian blowout experience and a ploy to promote her hair care product line.
The sexy star, 44, told Elle UK she cut her hair very short after her hair didn’t react well to the straightening treatment, but speculation among stylists and die-hard Brazilian Blowout devotees is that the haircut is a publicity stunt to promote her co-owned hair care product line.
“She is essentially saying that anything with the name Brazilian in it will ruin hair,” Betsy Riley, GM at West Hollywood’s Argyle Salon & Spa – the salon that originated the Brazilian Blowout — previously told Radar.
“I bet she’s coming out with her own smoothing product, and she’ll let us know her product is the best,” Riley, who hasn’t worked specifically with Aniston, speculated. “She’ll step out with gorgeous hair in a couple months and claim her product saved her hair.”
Aniston is a co-owner and spokesperson for science-based hair care line Living Proof.
Meanwhile, Aniston’s long-time hairstylist and friend, Chris McMillan, revealed the actress was looking for a change. “It was a spontaneous decision, even though she had kind of been thinking about it for a while,” McMillan told Allure. “It took a few hours to get it right. But I wanted it to look chewed off and lived in.”
However, our source tells us, “Jen has never been low maintenance when it comes to her hair….her identity is really wrapped up in her hair. She felt having the short hair made her look older, which she is trying to avoid. Having long hair, according to Jen, makes her look younger.”
Wow, that’s a high-level conspiracy theory, and I have to tip my hat to Betsy Riley. I don’t think the conspiracy holds water though. The fact is Jennifer was pimping Living Proof as the answer to everyone’s hair problems for the better part of a year before she tried the “Brazilian chemical treatment” (which involved formaldehyde!!!), so if this is all a ploy to promote Living Proof, it’s a pretty awful plan because it looks like Living Proof isn’t anything but an overpriced haircare line that doesn’t even “work” on Aniston’s famous locks, so much so that she had to opt for a controversial chemical treatment. Besides, Jennifer has been doing extensions and weaves for a long time, she just knows well enough to get the really high-quality ones.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, Fame/Flynet.
Well yes long hair can make you look younger but long term it’s giving up the ciggies and the tanning that will make you look younger and possibly live longer.
True, all of that.
I actually think the hair makes her look dated, and older, too. She has a stale look/style in my opinion, and the hair at least was marginally more modern when it was shorter. I’m not a fan of the Barbie hair on someone who is fairly small and lean, as she is.
Longer hair = more hair to hide behind and cover her face.
Agreed Josephine. The hair is dated, compulsive and uninspired.
It looks like nothing is going to help her keep a man. Apparently Justin has moved back to NY. She is going to have to do like Sandra Bullock did and adopt her a baby.
The best she ever looked was when she had that bob during Friends.
I loved that haircut!
Same here. She looked adorable and that was the best she ever looked (in my opinion)
I also loved her natural? hair in The Good Girl-wavy/curly and brunette…I thought it suited her much more.
Yet she supposedly resents or at least downplays that hairdo. It looked much better than her hairstyles since then.
Boringggggg
My conspiracy theory is that everytime she changes something about her hair it’s just to distract from whatever work she’s done on her face.
You could very well be right. It’s a fairly common practice to throw attention away from the ‘work.’
Lol
I think the fresh extensions look very nice.
I wish she would keep some of this stuff to herself. The PR statements on her hair and the backtracking to extentions will completely kill her credibility a promoter of Living Proof.
Who DIDN’T see that coming? Not the best hair care spokesperson, but probably a good hair extension care spokesperson.
Exactally!!! Interestingly enough i too lobbed off my long hair the same damn day in OCT she did & hers was news well mine was too on a local scale because i told no one i had been contemplating it so Monday at work i was super talked about but i digress. The first post i saw of her hair was on CB & my first thought was how long till she rolls out the extentions. my hair was cut as short & almost identical to hers i have thick healthy hair i had it trimed once since then & I really love it but am growing it back out because i miss my ponytail. but hey i give her fake kudos because she made it just almost 4 months. I would give her real kudos if she did it the way i am inch by inch.
She cut’s it and it looks the same….
She puts extensions in it and it looks the same….
She grows it out, and it STILL looks the same.
I can’t with this one…..Every 6 months, it’s some form of Hair (non) drama.
I thought it was just me. I can’t see any difference between any of her haircuts, either.
She is just fascinating. Her hair-Cabo-dumb rom com: Repeat.
Seriously! She cannot possibly be any more one-dimensional! Ugh.
Could she be using her hair to distract the media from problems between her and Justin Theroux? Methinks yes.
hmmmm Good point!
Why does she bother cutting her hair? The girl never makes it past a few months and she puts the very thing that damaged her hair to begin with back in.
Newsflash. What would make her look younger is losing the Tan Mom look.
At this point the only thing that would make her look younger is a time machine.
I laughed. Harsh, but funny.
She stuck out like an alien in We’re the Millers movie with the dark tan among the lily white family.
OMFG! She should be SHOT! (I am being sarcastic.)
Seriously? This is a story? F’ing Beyonce put extensions back into her hair practically in the same damn day…..
@ZigZagZoey, who wrote: “OMFG! She should be SHOT! (I am being sarcastic.)
Seriously? This is a story? F’ing Beyonce put extensions back into her hair practically in the same damn day….. ”
Beyonce didn’t release multiple stories/articles about her hair mishap. She just ‘did’ it. But let’s face facts … Beyonce doesn’t need to troll for attention either.
Oh hey, the resident Jen hater!
Why did you feel like you had to write(copy) my entire comment when it’s right there?
Beyonce POSTED A PIC of her short hair….Not much difference….
Beyonce doesn’t need more attention, but she wants it every single second.
And are you saying that Jen is the publisher of all these magazines that publish this crap?
I seem to remember Beyoncé releasing pictures of her short hair and claiming she loved it…and then within days getting long blonde extensions again. Beyoncé is the consummate attention whore. I cannot go a day without having to see another “just released’ twitter or instagram picture of her.
Thank you YuYa! ♥
I can’t believe that this person doesn’t realize that the reason there are so many stories about Jen and her hair are because they get so many people that are obsessed with (bashing)her, and that Jen is not publishing the stuff herself…..
@ZigZagZoey
What Emma is referring to is the two different interviews that Jennifer gave about her hair.–two conflicting stories.
First she told Elle online that she had cut off her hair because she got a Brazilian that her hair didn’t react well to. BUT she told PopSugar that she cut it off because she was bored and wanted a change–this was on November 6, 2013. She told Elle about her Brazilian on/before the same date as when she told Popsugar (when CB reported it, that is).
So she gave out two conflicting stories on a stupid haircut, probably because she has a haircare line that she’s shilling as the best thing ever (which I’ve heard that it’s really good)—-which obviously doesn’t work for her, if she felt the need to get a brazilian and put her hair extensions back in–after getting into bed with MIT BECAUSE her hair was thinning from years of extensions, bleachings, etc.
http://www.celebitchy.com/332747/jennifer_aniston_chopped_off_her_hair_after_brazilian_chemical_treatment_disaster/
http://www.popsugar.com/Jennifer-Aniston-New-Haircut-2013-32350735
Well, thanks, but I really don’t care!
They were both interviews that she was asked questions, and didn’t post the crap herself….What is she supposed to do….Not answer?
Okay, but you said what was the difference between Beyonce’s haircut and Jennifer’s haircut. The difference is is that Beyonce didn’t give any interviews about the haircut, didn’t say anything about the haircut—she just posted a picture on instagram.
Jennifer, on the other hand, gave two separate interviews about the same haircut–giving two different stories. Meh. What’s interesting about it is that she’s shilling a haircare line, for over a year, saying how amazing it was, how she uses it all the time—but still felt the need to burn her hair off. That’s what’s interesting. Not the haircut itself.
And she didn’t need to give an interview in the first place, or talk about her haircut, if she didn’t want to. All Elle asked her was if she would ever consider cutting her hair for a role–she’s the on who told them that she cut her hair–they didn’t ask.
Celebrities DO have veto power over certain topics. But it’s a dumb story to begin with…..I’m just not understanding why people think her hair is amazeballs–it isn’t.
Well, I don’t think her hair is amazing either(or her….I don’t mind her, but I’m not a huge fan at all ~ Obviously I like her better than Beyonce!). Sorry, but I don’t pay enough attention to her hair stories! But it’s hard to miss people who are constantly posting on all her stories. Especially if they reply directly to me yelling at me for what I wrote….
Again–you said people were bashing Jennifer for no reason, but then said you don’t pay attention to her ‘hair stories’…..that was what Emma was talking about. While you may disagree on whether or not it’s something to mention, it is something legitimite to criticise her on–a person who swears in interview after interview that this product that she’s repping is the end all, but then goes out and gets extensions and Brazilian treatments.
Sorry I missed the discussion, but yeah … everything Virgilia Coriolanus so eloquently said. (Thanks! 🙂 )
Did I yell? I don’t recall using all caps or exclamation points.
Ok, fess up – who is this “Zig Zag Zoey” when they’re under their usual name on here? Which Aniston stan is it that created this alternate nic, and immediately started yelling and abusing people?
This McMillan guy sounds like a mad scientist.
I can’t give her grief for saying she loved it and then changing her mind.
In November I chopped 12 inches off my hair, I LOVED it. For about 3 weeks. I’m now missing my long hair so much, I can’t stop thinking about it. If I had her money I’d put extensions in as well.
You’re allowed to change your mind without being called out on it-at least about something as trivial as hair.
Ugh. We are in the same boat, my friend. I never, ever, do layers all over and this last hair cut reminded me why. Took about four or five inches off and went just to my shoulders and layered all over about six weeks ago. At first I thought it was great. Now no, just no. Ugh. So, yeah. I can’t shade her or anyone else for changing their mind on a haircut, especially one that’s a big change.
My hair has finally reached my shoulders again i’m so thrilled.
I still can’t curl it because I have to wait for the layers to grow out. Seriously, i’d get extensions in a heartbeat if I could afford it. It would be BLISS.
I’m with you, which is why I’ve barely cut mine for the past 10 years. I always regret it. And I’m with JA in that a chin length bob can be more aging than longer hair, although not on everyone. A friend went from long to chin length and looks amazing, probably because her hair is everything mine is not — thick and sleek and straight. I love bobs in theory but for me they never work.
Oh to be almost 45 and the most interesting thing about you is your hair………how pathetic.
Hair this, hair that. Where are the exciting adventures, exciting projects, etc.? Just hair, body, hair again, Mexico, fake pregnancies and pr shenanigans………….
Long hair + her orange tan+ her jawline = She looks like a real housewife of wherever
@Beeeeeeee, who wrote: “Long hair + her orange tan+ her jawline = She looks like a real housewife of … ”
… Orange County.
@Beeeeeeee
@ Emma – the JP Lover
Totally agree. I’d also add her brassy blonde hair color to the list. That color really puts her in Real Housewives company. Just makes her hair look over-processed, dry and brittle.
I think it’s pretty sad that people still refer to her as Brad Pitts ex. C’mon already. As far as the hair story…meh, who cares.
It is her biggest claim to fame.
If she had not been married to him almost a decade ago, she would be talked about as mush as the rest of the Friend’s cast. She has done nothing after Friends that people would find interesting. No great projects (film or charity) and she talks from self help books and mumbles on stage.
Lisa & Courtney were both more beautiful, interesting, and talented.
That right there, is proof that Pitt is the only reason she is famous. Anyone notice how they never do the same with Pitt? Meaning, they never say “The ex-husband of Jennifer Aniston”?
Um if no one but Jennifer & PR & fans & her show business friends refer’s to Jennifer as Brad Pitt’s ex. Jennifer is the one who called Brad her husband even after 5 years of divorce, has her friends attack brad and Angelina to this very day and gets her pr agent to buy People Magazine covers where she talks about life after the divorce.
Rest for the world don’t give a shit about the fact that she was once married to the sexiest man alive.
It’s weird that she is referred to as Brad Pitt’s ex. I wonder if Thereoux feels insulted when he reads this.
I think Justin to be more insulted about the fact that he is referred to as Mr Jennifer Aniston.
I was referring to this post. In THIS post Aniston is called Brad Pitt’s ex-wife. Whether you like Thereoux or dislike him, it’s not hard to empathize that he might feel insulted that she’s STILL referred to as Brad Pitt’s ex-wife after nearly a decade. Regardless of how much Aniston may relish the constant connection to Pitt.
I believe it’s Radar Online that refers to Aniston as Brad Pitt’s ex, not Celebitchy. CB is merely pulling over the article from Radar Online. Isn’t that what the light gray box that encloses a portion of the story means? At least that’s my understanding of what it means.
Just some context on Radar Online: It’s owned by American Media, which publishes most of the trash tabloids — National Enquirer, Star, Globe and Ok! to name a few. Huvane does business with all these publications, making sure to keep Aniston’s name in the press, even if it’s about her hair and wedding drama as opposed to any legitimate film work. Huvane bought her “Hottest Female of All Time” award a few years back based on a poll conducted by Men’s Fitness magazine. Men’s Fitness is owned by American Media.
She looks like the (animated) guy who used to introduce those Christmas specials.( you know..the stop-start animation ones? Year Without a Santa Claus, etc……I think he was a mailman or something.) pay no attention to me..my coffee is NOT doing it’s job today….
I actually don’t like a bob on her. It doesn’t seem like her. She looks much better now and it suits who she is.
Jen, you are heading toward 50, you can’t remain looking like you’re in your 20s forever. I feel sorry for this type of woman, everything is all about looks. Good luck with that.
What a surprise (not).
She looked a lot better and more ‘fresh’ looking with her shorter hair. I liked the haircut.
I’m not understanding why she keeps putting extensions in, when she knows that it’s ripping out her hair. Take some biotin or something, woman.
A serious question – does biotin really help with hair growth?
It does. One of my mom’s friends permed her hair all her life, for a good twenty years. So a few years ago, she decided to grow the perm out, and go natural with her hair. She began taking biotin, and within a few weeks she had new growths growing between where the permed hair was.
Is there no blame for living proof for continuing a relationship with her when they know full well she isn’t adhering to their products? I would never buy a hair-care product if the lady trying to sell it to me was wearing a wig.
Jen is a shareholder in that company.
Only way she can get endorsements is to buy into the company.
Besides making her look younger, the longer hair distracts from the fact that she just has an average looking face.
I actually thought she looked younger with the shorter hair.
Meh I think she looks better with shorter hair or maybe it’s just because I’m sick of seeing her with the same f***ing hairdo since the ’90.
Aniston has been doing that chemical straightener thing, since the 90’s. By season 3 of Friends, her hair lost all of its curly/body. Which I never thought was a big deal. Straight hair is not a nightmare 90% of the time like curly hair can be…
I have naturally curly… long waist length hair. (And I am over 40! GASP!) And I seriously look at having the chemical straightener done. More than once. What stop me was I feared, it would end badly. With me losing all my length. Plus I have dyed my hair, dark auburn, since I was 20. I have always been spooked by any double process, done on my hair.
If I had to suddenly lose what is my standard hair do… long crazy curls… would not love it either. But extensions is never the answer. It will end with another “Bob” haircut.
She should have went with some better hair pieces… that do not require glue or sewing onto the natural hair.
I want your hair!!!! It sounds amazing!
If you like your hair, don’t ever put any chemicals in it. My grandmother (who is part black and native american) used to have long, thick, curly hair down to her waist–but she started straightening it once she hit her forties, and now it’s ruined. It’s only about five inches long right now (as long as it’ll grow) and it’s thin and flat.
Of course long hair makes Jennifer look younger. With her extensions she doesn’t
look a day over 43.
🙂
In my opinion, she looks desperate for attention. She also seems to be insecure/have a fear of aging. I guess so … her ‘looks’ is all she is and all she has going for her.
Oh God – its more exiting to watch a tortoise walk then read about the repetitive and boring life Jennifer lives.
Year in year out it always about her hair, her body, her pity parties and her relationships.
Seriously someone should start an award for the most boring and uninspiring celeb and give it to Jennifer Aniston.
I just don’t get her logic – she herself confessed that years of bleaching, hair extensions and weaves ruined her hair completely and that is why she cut her hair to a bob – this was back in 2000. Now 14 years later she is doing exactly the same thing. I mean come on – should you have learned from your mistake the first, second or even the third time?
Yet here you are, reading and commenting on every story about her.
What can I say – I live in the hope that one day Jennifer might surprise me instead of bore me.
I don’t envy her hair, but I envy her friendship with Ellen and Portia! Coolest Hollywood couple ever. Le sigh.
Jen…Jusin, do you like my.hair? Yes, dear…
Do you like Cabo? Yes, dear…
Do you like Chelsea? Yes, dear…
Do you think these jeans make my butt look big? No, dear
Do you like Courtney? Yes, dear
Do you like my tan? Yes, dear…
Do you still talk to Heidi? No, dear?
Do you like it when I smokr? Yes, dear?
Do you. think my movies are good? Yes, dear…
Do you think I’m America s Sweetheart? Yes, dear…
Do you like yoga? Yes, dear…
Do you like my Aveeno and Smartwater ad?… yes, dear…
Do you like LA better than N.Y.? Yes, dear,,,
Makes duck face and dannces on a pole..
🙂 🙂 🙂
Hahahaha that was so amazingly creative.
Wear your hair however you want Jennifer, JUST STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!
Hahaha I will never understand the Jennifer Anniston hair obsession. I thought her best hair was season 1 of friends (“The Rachel”) I loved that haircut!! and then after that it all went downhill.
Her hair is basic. I will give her points for always having depth in her coloring.
I’m a fan of long hair if its styled and not the same length all over like a polygamous housewife, or a child in elementary school….or a throwback from the 70’s. There is a way to make long hair look grown and sexy.
maybe if she decided to go bold that would interesting she looks as if jay leno decided to dress as barbara strisand, she is awful boring and nothing more why doesnt she take her money buys a house in the country or some far off country where no one knows her name and just dessapears like other actors from long over tv shows why is she still relevant why is her hair news this is just a waste of space there are better celebrity news or stories than her.
Long hair = wedding is back on
Now she’s ready for her wedding pictures.
All kidding aside, I like her better with long hair. It takes away from her large chin.
Living proof is actually a really good line, seems to me she was doing other damaging things to her hair instead of using their products.
Whoa!! Where’s her engagement ring?
For some reason, her vapidity and absolute refusal to make any changes to her style/holidays/acting makes me like her more and more. She’s like a comfortable pair of old slippers. Predictable, safe, and a world away from some of the more awful stories on celebitchy lately. Keep on keeping on, Jennifer! Spring will follow Winter, the Earth will keep turning, and Jennifer Aniston will cut her hair then put in extensions a few months later.