If you believe OK! Magazine’s upcoming issue, Jennifer Aniston has taken the Halle Berry route to happiness and has vowed never to marry again, but is planning for a baby. If you’re more cynically minded and realize that these tabloids routinely make up stories based on “sources,” you might come to the conclusion that OK! is grasping at straws trying to sell copies. Aniston does move magazines, and her tale of woe is one that’s been repeated often enough. Just because you tell a story over and over again doesn’t make it true, though:
Fresh off Jennifer Aniston’s most recent breakup with John Mayer OK! has learned that the actress is vowing never to marry again.
Insiders tell OK! that Jen, now in New York City to shoot her new film, The Baster, has experienced a stark epiphany: No man can live up to her ex-husband, Brad Pitt, whom she divorced in 2005.
“Ever since Jen and Brad split, she has tried desperately to find another man who would win her heart and be the husband she’s always dreamed of,” says a source. “But she now realizes that Brad’s shoes are impossible to fill.”
When Brad moved into a successful — and fruitful — union with Angelina Jolie, Jen saw no reason why she couldn’t do the same.
What followed was a well-publicized string of disappointments: actor Vince Vaughn, 39, her co-star in 2006’s The Break-Up; British model Paul Sculfor; and then 31-year-old rock star boy-toy John.
“Jen put so much of herself into those relationships,” says a source, “only to have all three end in heartbreak.”
The plot of The Baster — a single, 40- year-old woman resorts to artificial insemination to get pregnant — is appropriate for Jen, who may be swearing off marriage but not motherhood.
“More than anything, Jen wants to be a mom,” says the source. “She has dreamed of having a child ever since she was a little girl, and the fact that she may not have a partner isn’t going to stop her from realizing that dream.”
[From OK! Magazine]
I like OK! and they’re not bad as far as tabloids go, but this story is probably based on those old quotes that Hello! dug up about how Aniston will always love Brad, which Hello! misleadingly tried to pass off as a new interview. Aniston also admitted to Marie Claire that she saves old answering machine tapes. I think she knows that she gets press for continuing the triangle and she decided to give what she thought were some relatively measured comments about it, which only got blown up and passed around by the gossip rags. There are no new quotes or interview here or OK! would have written about it in their teaser article.
Aniston deserves a lot of credit for presenting at the Oscars and trying to put all this madness behind her. Instead of the tabloids admitting that Aniston was taking a bold public step in showing that her ex’s new life and family isn’t bothering her in the least, they continued the “Poor Jen” routine by saying that she was still pining for Pitt despite that very brave move.
Yes her relationship with Mayer didn’t work out – did anyone expect it to? Aniston said in a recent interview that her therapist passed away. Maybe she should find another one that can teach her how to pick men that are emotionally available and committed to her. Sometimes women are attracted to the guys that are the absolute worst for them. Once you are open to a relationship with someone who will stick with you instead of bailing the minute he gets wind of a problem you realize that there is a wonderful man out there for you. It’s up to everyone individually if they want to marry, and it’s not a goal for many people. I think in Aniston’s case she’s just dated one too many duds though. OK! has apparently jumped to that conclusion too.
Jennifer Aniston is shown below on the set of The Baster in NY on 3/24/09. Credit: INFphoto.com
“Shocking Decision”
HA!
I’m actually starting to feel a little bad for her. Not because of her romantic circumstances but, these magazines covers have gotta hurt. It’s really a bit much now.
That being said, who’s taking bets on how long till Mayer just runs off and got some groupie pregnant?
I honestly don’t believe Aniston wants children. As single-minded about everything else that she does want, a great body, making movies, gorgeous houses, you’d think she’d have had a child by now if she wanted one (especially when married to Brad Pitt). I think for public relations reasons she won’t admit this, since women are very much judged on their relationship to motherhood. I think it’s fine if she doesn’t want children, but a truly courageous step would be to say so.
so interesting, and says so much abt us as a culture, that this story just won’t go away. I wish her the best.
Brave to go to the Oscars? How about the real reason, trying to upstage the woman who “stole your man”? There was no reason for her to be there, she could present any year she wants to, why this year when they were both nominees? To steal their spotlight, of course. You give her to much credit but at least admit that keeping the triangle alive benefits her and no one but her. How else can she sell tickets to her 1 and 2 star movies?
Can I just say Brad Pitt is not that great? and that there are plenty of better men? I am sick of these stories but I can’t not read it is a sickness…
I also don’t buy the idea that there is “a wonderful man out there” for everybody.
This may be Celebitchy’s personal story, and if so I’m very happy for her, but telling people there is a partner (or a job, or a home, or a baby) out there for them if they just undergo an attitude adjustment is cruel to people who face difficult circumstances, or who are just plain unlucky.
I think I’d be dead from sheer embarrassment at this stage if I were Aniston and tabs and gossip sites had me still pining over a long-dead and buried marriage, endless relationship fails and never-ending (albeit futile) attempts to present myself as happy and fulfilled blah blah.
Why the hell can’t she control what’s written and said about her? Other people manage to do it. Her PR has to be the worst unless ‘people’s favourite victim’ is their goal? In that case, it’s brilliant. The only way forward for her, if she wants to lose the victim tag, is stop acting like one, don’t date for-hire egotists and/or employ a new PR company.
Thank God, Jennifer will never find another Brad! Who needs that love rat?
A lot of people vow never to marry/remarry, etc., and next thing you know, they’re at the altar. David Letterman, for example.
I think the whole article is fiction, but it’s plausible fiction.
Easy to swear off marriage when you can’t find someone to marry you. LMAO !!
Jen and her pr team put this garbage out so she can get more attention. She should not have went to the Oscars because she ended up making a fool of her self. Everything she do is out of revengeful spit and end up making her look stupid.
Jen’s biggest mistake was hiring John Mayer who is an overrated douche bag. I think no decent man would take the job as her phony Hollywood boyfriend. Mayer has no integrity an ended up making Jen look bad.
I use to feel sorry for Jen but not any more. I don’t think she should ruin any other man’s life with her self asorbed life style.
I totally agree with you, PJ.
Don’t people usually meet someone really cool in the last place they would look? At least it makes for good stories!
j. ferber – I agree with your assessment 100%.
She might just be the great ‘closeted’ childfree icon of our age.
That’s what I’m hoping anyway. 🙂
Sometimes the memories are so profound that one has a hard time letting go. Even when it doesn’t end well. One over looks that fact to preserve the years of good memories. And unfortunately that act alone can leave you pinning for what once was not updating the information and coming to the conclusion you have been treated badly and need to move on. This is where Jen seems stuck
Anything to sell a magazine! I am not a Faniston by any means, but I simply cannot believe that anyone (even Jennifer if you believe what has been written about her) would still be missing an ex after all this time, especially when he cheated. Nothing is as big of a “buzz kill” to me than someone who doesn’t want to be with me, and I think most people probably feel the same way if they have any semblance of self esteem. The article hints of being libelous, but the magazine probably feels pretty safe because what they said isn’t a huge untruth that would be worth litigation.
@nanster – that’s my earlier point, why is her PR not nippin this in the bud? Her fans say she’s a Hollywood mover and shaker, extremely wealthy and much in demand: if so, if she has the sort of clout her fans suggest she has, why is her PR so dire? Can anyone give me another example of a female in a similar situation who gets such continuously pissy press? Why does she stick with someone who makes her look so hopeless?
Can only conclude that there’s more truth in what’s written about her than not.
jenny probably doesn’t want children, but she won’t ever admit it
IF JA’s team really puts out stories like these on purpose, and it was their idea for her to date JM a second time, they are really, really stupid. It doesn’t make sense that a PR-savvy celeb would actually have her team make decisions like these.
I personally have little faith in an OK! Magazine source.
@Geronimo, what could Jen’s PR team do in regard to controlling stories like these? They are rather benign and aren’t actually harming her reputation, so I’m pretty sure a libel suit would be hard to win with no evidence of malicious intent.
Jessica Simpson is another figure this particular mag likes to print sob stories about. According to OK!, Tony Romo has cheated on or broken up with Jessica about 15 times.
You’ve touched on an important point sarcra, it’s so painfully obvious which celebs the tabs extend their blanket of approval/sympathy over and which one’s they don’t by the headlines they use. It’s just catering to their audience, but they don’t make it any guesswork.
@Sacra – take your point re the tabs. But eg. Jessica Simpson feeds that perception far more than Aniston does, ie. she’s plays dumb and a bit hopeless and what’s written about her is often just a refection of what she puts out. And Jessica doesn’t have big powerful PR to protect her, Aniston does. Yet she gets very regular negative ‘sad victim’ press. Ever her positive press is negative – ie. she’s over Brad, she’s moved on with her life etc etc. Why, knowing the tab interest in the triangle and their penchant for presenting her in a particular light, does she continuously feed it in her bonafide interviews?
geronimo, without the triangle, and having the tabs pinning her against Brangelina, do you think Aniston would still be relevent and successful 4+ years after her divorce, doing the same boring rom-com and not much else?
First thing: get over her presenting at the Oscar’s. She’s done it before and in a year when neither of them were nominated. She was asked to do it again, so she did it. End of story. If she really wanted attention she would have orchestrated a meeting on the red carpet or actually WALKED the red carpet. She did not. Leave that be.
Second: Halle Berry didn’t have kids until she was 40-something. Expressing a want to have children doesn’t mean you HAVE to have them now now now. A woman can have children when she’s 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45…Jennifer has plenty more years in which she can have kids.
Third: The stories printed about her are relatively harmless so she can’t do anything about them. They aren’t saying she’s killed anyone or that she committed a crime or had breast implants or something. They take what she says in interviews and screws it around into a story that has glimmers of truth.
The tabs put that stuff on their magazines because Jennifer Aniston sells magazines. Her PR people can’t say anything about it because it’s not libel AND Jennifer Aniston can say what she wants in interviews. If a tab twists her quotes around and uses them to sell their magazines, she can’t do anything.
Why is it some sort of sin NOT to want children?
I agree with whoever said that if she wanted a baby she would likely have had one by now (yes, she could have one in a few years, but lets stick with statistical probabilities here).
I think when the divorce first happened Jen should have come out and said: I am not getting into a releationship just to ‘prove’ I can; and I love being single and not sharing the TV remote and while a divorce is always sad, it can be for the best and I don’t think I need a man (or children) to complete my life’
Instead she was ‘stoically’ silent and rushed into a relationahip with Vince Vaughn. (head shake).
Why does Jen need a man or a child to make her life worthwhile? I don’t think she does, but it is shocking in this day and age that that attitude is still so prevalent.
How is she going to be a’ mom this year’She told Larry King adoption is not for her and it’s almost April. Is she already pregnant?
@Turth SF – no! Which is why I’m trying to figure out if this is actually all part of her own grand plan.
I did the same thing after my divorce, and it wasn’t because I couldn’t get over my ex..it was because I wanted to make sure I never made that mistake again! Altho I don’t believe she said all that..and OK mag, is just as bad as the rest of them for making up lies!
I agree with the post-ers who asked whether or not JA would still be relevant were it not for this constant obsession over a five year old divorce. AUGH! She can do what she likes, she’s got pots of money, she looks fab…alot of this ‘poor Jen’ stuff is just jealously, some people can’t stand to think she may just be happy on top of all her other more obvious advantages.
I’ve never been a Jen fan but really I think she should be left alone now to get on with her life. If we’re bored of it think how she must feel???
So is this the new narrative to sell the film that she’s working on “The Baster”? Let me guess when she’s doing press next year all we will hear about is how she looks great for her age and how much she wants children (with the subtext being that Angelina stole her joy.) I think that her PR team is failing her big time and she is starting to really look silly and is truly becoming a person to pity. If she doesn’t want to get married, who cares? If she doesn’t want to have children, again, who cares? I am just a little sick and tired of these Aniston stories that seem to elevate her to sainthood because a superstar left her for a younger, more gorgeous superstar. And soon people are going to start asking, if she is as nice and down to earth as people say she is, then why can’t she find a man.
I can’t understand how some people find her attractive
Why is she swearing off marriage? The only one ever dumb enough to marry her was Brad lol She cannot even keep a boyfriend,so what is she talking about??
why the rush now to get poregnant. When her husband asked her to have a child she said no..all of a sudden she wants a baby for what? To prove that Brad is lying about her not wanting a kid ? She is way too selfish to be a mother. Look at the way she has treated her own mother.
OH yeah Brad is such a great catch, such a great husband that he left her for another woman, a woman who is a confessed bisexual…such a great man…woo hoo what a gentleman…wow is she an idiot.
I believe deep down Jen is hoping Brad will one day go back to her.
I believe that Jen goes on her knees every night and thanks the Lord she doesn’t have six kids…then basks in the glorious silence…
Judy – that’s rich. You’re bashing Aniston for the way she treated her mother, hwo about Angelina treating her father (snobbing him and denying him access to his grandchildren)? Sorry, too, that you think Aniston can’t want a baby NOW. Maybe she didn’t want to them before, but she does now. Or maybe she just doesn’t want to have any children. There’s nothing wrong with that. Motherhood should be a choice. It’s one of the hardest jobs around. If Aniston decides she wants to get pregnant now, who are we to tell her otherwise?
Some people just want to be nasty every chance they get.
For “Decideing not to ever get married” to work,,,,,first you should have SOMEONE who actually WANTS to marry you…..which in this case that SOMEONE IS MIA
NashNash,,I am not sure about how Angelina’s father treated her and her brother,,,I know that if a father is a beat up dad and did not care/provide for his kids financially and emotionally ….he has no right to wien about not being able to see gradkids or the relationship with his kids not working later on in his life.
Please… if anything ever happened to my marriage,I would never marry again. The love, companionship, EVERYTHING is wonderful… but it’s also a tremendous amount of work. It requires work and dedication on a daily basis. I can completely see her point.
I agree with the poster who said BP isn’t all that. Never has been and CERTAINLY isn’t now. She’s well rid of his loser a@@.
And geez people… get off the Oscars and the baby wagon. Find something else to b1tch about – she’s entitled to do and say what she wants, when she wants. I’m pretty sure she pays taxes so she’s a free citizen.
Most successful women of today realize they don’t “need” a man to be happy, to become a mother, to be a very successful businesswoman…..and Jennifer is one of them obviously. I do remember reading the Spring before she divorced her then cheating hubby, she suffered a miscarrage, so it’s not that she has never wanted children. Being a single mother is not impossible, in fact many women have gone that route, so why not Jen? I fail to understand all the Jennifer Aniston bashing/haters when all the woman did was divorce her cheating husband. A divorce will not erase memories of the good times, but once a cheat, twice a cheat, he’s always going to cheat on whomever his partner may be says to me that Jen had a lucky escape. Actually, she’s in a much better position in her life now that she’s shed him….he may be a fair actor however, he’s a miserable husband
This is a classy website. The commentary is measured, not hysterical and, refreshingly, not misogynistic.
I don’t think she wants children either – she had a bad relationship with her mother and its a typical reaction to not want to perpetuate the cycle.
Ange, on the other hand, had a very close and loving relationship with her mother and wants heaps of kids. Brad wanted to become a dad – it all worked out well for everyone. Jennifer should ditch the loser celeb toyboys and hook up with a wealthy civilian divorcee and become a part time step mom, imo.
Her PR guy, Huvane, is supposed to be the best in the biz; one of the big mistakes Angelina made in the larger picture is not have a PR rep–it might have worked well for her early on, but when the public fascination turned, as it always does, to backlash, Angie got burned. I think, PR-wise, the big mistake JA made was the interview with Vanity Fair early on in which she cried and cried–including the part about how if they hadn’t split, SHE would be pregnant at that time, and how the one thing that would kill her was if BP and AJ got pregnant (which they did soon after). It just set the tone that, at the end of the day, this woman was going to settle for being the guest of honor at the pity party. Lots of people have said it, but the press is going to ask her about this until she’s 100, and if she wants to put an end to it, she’s going to have to refuse to go anywhere near the topic of her ex in interviews and everywhere else–and the Vogue interview is where she should have set that tone, and she didn’t. Whatever she really feels (and she is a great believer in therapy, so her therapist’s death might be a reason why she’s on the self-destruct with JM) if she wants this “triangle” monkey off her back, she is going to have to bite the bullet and keep her thoughts and feelings about it between her and her friends (who, when she first started dating JM, worried that she was beginning to regress into “clingy Jen”). Reese Witherspoon recently said that her divorce had been “humiliating” (and her ex left her for Abbie Cornish, his co-star in Stop/Loss, who is always with him now) but she wisely said absolutely nothing about it until now, so she hasn’t been slimed with it at every turn. JA made the early tactical error, and the tabs will exploit that until she just refuses to talk about her personal life. If she keeps giving them what they want, she’ll be stuck with the results.
Aniston is so selfish, like a lot of other women who think that being a mother will end all her problems. All she can think about is what she wants. She couldn’t care less about what a baby needs…a father and a mother.