Jennifer Aniston’s Marie Claire pictorial: cute or Meh McPantless?

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I don’t know why this Jennifer Aniston pictorial for Marie Claire is cracking me up so much. I mean, some of the photos are really lovely and flattering. I guess I’m laughing because in the cover shot, there’s something in Aniston’s crotch area that looks vaguely dongish. That’s a horrible thing to do to an actress, and totally inappropriate given the current Anthony Weiner situation. Of course, maybe it would be different if Aniston had agreed to pants?

Another reason I’m laughing is that Aniston is made to pose with her three Horrible Bosses leads, Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day. You can tell a lot about her relationships to the men by how she poses with them, I think. With Jason Bateman, the two look genuinely close, like they’re buddies in real life (which they are) and they make each other laugh. The ones of Jen and Bateman are my favorites – she looks the most “real” and engaging, and Jason is a good-looking dude. The ones of Jennifer and Charlie Day are kind of cute too, but it seems like she’s just using him as a prop, or like she’s just trying to force the chemistry, in my opinion.

The ones with Sudeikis are the most interesting, I think. JS and Jennifer allegedly had a brief romance last year, after which Jason began dating January Jones and he seemed to laugh off the Aniston stuff. I feel like Aniston is trying too hard to make “sexy” faces and poses with Jason. In one, she’s even hiding her chin! Of course, one of the pull quotes from the magazien seems to suggest that Aniston says to Jason, “We should clear it up right now, we never dated, right, Jason?”

On the whole, I do like this shoot. I mean, it’s slightly boring and “on the nose” to promote the film, but it’s one of Aniston’s better shoots as of late. Remember that horrible Allure shoot? Yeah, this is much better.

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  1. Jenn WInd says:

    She looks really great in the ones with Jason Bateman! They look super cute together, and have some great chemistry!!!

  2. Anne says:

    I know she has a body to die for and is looking amazing but does she always have to take her clothes off in pictures.

    I was looking at some pics of Cate Blanchet; she has never resorted to this kind of nonsense. Jen is really getting a bit old for this.

  3. strawberrygirl says:

    She looks good, but what in the hell is she wearing? I like Jason Bateman a lot.

  4. GoofPuff says:

    Boring. I like the pictures with Jason Bateman, but that’s it. The rest is JA trying too hard. And the no pants outfit is way fug.

  5. LOVE ANGELINA says:

    The cover is horrific. It has a hint of the Anthony Weiner dong pic, no? Its really bad also because I am not sure whats going on. Is the jacket tucked into the panties? WTF is going on with the styling there? I don’t like any of the pics in that black man jacket but I do think the ones with the costars are cute and I am super happy she didn’t have one with Colin Farrell.

    The trailers on TV for the film are interesting because they don’t feature the Horrible Bosses AKA “the more recognizable/famous celebs (Colin, Jen)” as much as these 3 dudes, which of the 3 only 2 (Who the fu*k is Charlie Day?) are well known and Jason Bateman is the most well known of both.

  6. Rita says:

    WTF is that!!! It looks like she stole some guys dinner jacket, as well as his underwear and then tucked the bottom of the jacket into the underwear…..maybe that’s what its suppose to look like.

  7. MollyB says:

    This is just . . . ugh. The guys look amazing in their suits and JA is standing there–with no pants on.

  8. Cheyenne says:

    Give her an A for the effort…

  9. Eleonor says:

    I think someone made an horrible photoshop work for the cover, the crotch looks too much strange.

  10. skibunny says:

    She looks gorgeous in every shot! It’s not often you find someone who is both funny and beautiful. She’s a talented comedic actress. That’s why she’s in demand. Obviously I like her.

  11. checkit says:

    I know there tends to be a lot of Aniston hate at Celebitchy, but I just love her. She’s confident and funny, and she has a nice disposition. As far as her pants always off, look: in your 40s, IF YOU GOT IT, FLAUNT IT, BABY! Life is too — *ahem* — short.

  12. Katie M. says:

    Her chemistry with Bateman is fantastic! Have they dated at some point? I think they would make a cute couple. My husband and I really enjoyed them together in The Switch.

  13. Katie M. says:

    I retract my cute couple suggestion! He is happily married with a kid, making him a “no go!” Love seeing them in movies together though!

  14. lucy2 says:

    Cute photoshoot. I like all three of those guys, but she gets bonus points for being buddies with JB in real life.
    Charlie Day is so freaking hilarious on It’s Always Sunny. Glad to see him getting other roles too.

  15. Anna says:

    Horrible face and is trying so hard it’s awkward to look at.

  16. someone says:

    First off, she isn’t naked..to the person asking why she takes her clothes off..shes a beautiful woman, with a smokin body, and i love the picks..and to all the haters…blahhhhhhh

  17. Solveig says:

    I don’t see any dong happening down there…
    I like those pics, especially the ones with Jason Bateman – he’s so so lovely and handsome – and fortunatelly this time they didn’t photoshop her till they make her look like everybody else but Aniston.

  18. Anna says:

    I love how the jenniferites assume everyone who hates her is jealous of her beauty/success/fame and/or an angelina jolie type homewrecker.

  19. nnn says:

    It’s an upgrade from the pictures with the naked pose, the tie and the young guys or the ones ones with the semi naked pose, the lollipop and the teddy bear who both had that nasty flavour attached to them.

    The cover is good and she looks ok until she is grimacing.

  20. Rog says:

    The blazer/coat all by itself would be very sexy, if one could assume that Jen wasn’t wearing any panties underneath. THAT would intrigue just about every heterosexual penis on the planet.

    Alas, it’s very obvious she’s wearing her knickers underneath the fancy frock, which makes whole the entire concept of the photo shoot quite “meh” (to quote Kaiser).

    I like Jennifer Aniston a great deal, and I find her very attractive and quite sexy. But eventually she’s either going to have to take her clothes off, or stop playing the big tease.

    She’s already too old to keep pulling-off the tease act, and it’s not going to be very much longer before she’ll also be too old to take off her clothes (and still have anyone care or even notice).

  21. Koretz says:

    It’s cute and appropriate for the film they are all promoting.

  22. bagladey says:

    Mmmmm Jason Bateman. JA looks a’ight but she bores me now, as does Jolie actually.

  23. sassenach says:

    You know I would really like Aniston more if she would stop cutesy act. She is over 40 and there is nothing wrong with it. It is ok to keep your clothes on and be sexy AND funny. Ask Tina Fey.

    Talented comedic actress is a stretch. Has she ever really done anything in her movies that made her memorable? No. Debra Messing is a much better comedic actress who doesn’t get ANY of the opportunities that Aniston gets because she has never been dumped and doesn’t fake being everyone’s “friend”

  24. Idk says:

    Something about her reminds me of Kirstie alley.

  25. GrnMtGirl says:

    I Like Jennifer…I think she is cool and very beautiful.

    And, I like Jason…He is very funny and seems like he is down to earth and very real.

  26. Yoco says:

    I don’t have a problem with the pantless pic it goes along with her character in the film. I had more of a problem with the topless Smartwater ads.

  27. Ari says:

    She needs to find a Bateman look-alike STAT too bad there is only one :L

  28. Maritza says:

    Lovely pictures, I like them all. I think Jennifer is really sweet and she seems to get along with all her co-stars.

  29. JB says:

    She can do no wrong in my eyes. except get old. She has a good 5 years left I think.

  30. Glyrics says:

    She’s nude to make herself a viable object of desire (rom com variety). There must be a rule book for her kind of schtick. Or maybe she’s writing it herself.

  31. Ell says:

    Gorgeous pics, the photographer’s really captured the spirit of Jen.

  32. Miss masseuse says:

    Am fairly indifferent over Jen but am loving the pics with her and Jason Bateman, he is so hot, a possibility for future HGF anyone?……

  33. You don't say says:

    This shoot is a vast improvement over the one when she posed with little clothing and a doll on a bed. That one was creepy. She does like to disrobe in some fashion in most of her shoots though, which is fine if that is what she likes. But the naked water ad was a bit much.

  34. lol says:

    Confident?! really ladies?? Jen ALWAYS covers most of her face w/ her hair bc she knows her face ain’t the greatest. And that nose…eek!

  35. Reality says:

    It’s a good cover, she looks so much better with her hair shorter and she seems very relaxed with her co-stars. I doubt she ever dated Sudekis, and he was obviously being tongue-in-cheek when he said ‘she should be so lucky’ to date him. It’s only you’re dislike of her that makes you think he was being malicious.

    @ Anne, Jennifer is certainly no Cate Blanchett, and they are hardly in the same league, but Blanchett has also posed in nothing but a wet white men’s shirt on the cover of W magazine. I can’t think of many popular actresses who haven’t done a few sexy photoshoots in a major magazine.

  36. OtherChris says:

    Put on some pants, granny.

  37. manly says:

    she’s always fug to me.

  38. Alaska says:

    Mmm Jason Bateman looks great! Love that guy. He seems to keep getting better looking as he gets older.
    Charlie Day looks adorable too!
    As for Jen herself… well, she can definitely pull off the jacket-and-nothing-else look.

  39. fannomore says:

    way too old to be still acting cutesy, Rachel is no more, nor the ingenue she thinks she still is. If she just acted her age, oops that would be acting…nevermind

  40. Gal says:

    I vote for Jason Bateman for Hot Guy Friday!

  41. Larissa says:

    Cute! Not trying hard at all!
    Way to go JA!!!!! She seems so happy as of lately!

  42. Cut the Cheese says:

    Jen always looks great and brings out the best in anyone she is around…unlike some people.

  43. stella says:

    Jennifer is always adorable but they photoshopped her legs too much. Her legs are not that pin like. Her ‘real’ legs are much better. F those graphic artist idiots. She looks great with all the guys.

  44. SolitaryAngel says:

    I normally refuse to post anything for JA, but I will say that I am liking her hair! Also, I like the pics of her and Jason Bateman, she does look like “there is a personality in her somewhere” in those pictures.

  45. nnn says:

    @ 42

    I personally think she didn’t brought the best out of those young guys ,nor the best out of herself when she posed her naked 40 years old body on theirs two years ago, crediting the editor for making her drink too much to agree this more than racy photoshoot.

    They looked like her personal ‘adult’ toys and totally ‘ojectified.’ looking straight like a typical group scene of an adult movie.

    It was nasty and trashy and she painted herself as worst than trashy Megan Fox who is doing those things in par with her youth and relative inexperience in the business.

  46. tripmom says:

    That face she’s making in the fifth pic is the exact same one our 7 month olds make when they poop.

  47. jocular says:

    Jen’s rolling out a new film – courtesy of Showbiz tonight

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqJaYGPkZh0&feature=player_embedded

    Checklist..

    1. Date a famous guy.
    2. Racy magazine photos.
    3. Tell-all interview about Brad Pitt

    As you see, we’re at no. 2. Unfortunately for the Studio no. 1 didn’t go quite as planned, but there is still time to dump and reload… No.3 should be within T minus 30 days

  48. Rosalee says:

    oooh the comments posted on a Jennifer Aniston article are always entertaining. I love the haters..it reminds me of long ago high school hallways. The catty girls and boys who whispered behind the popular girl’s back as she walked down the hall. Bet you wouldn’t say it to her face..lol

  49. breyan says:

    She is trying way too hard!!
    The more she tries the more boring she becomes.

  50. Mike j says:

    She’s trying to hard. Her face looks fat. Lay off the filler!! Yuck. Reeks of desperation. No wonder Brad left Her.

  51. Rachel says:

    Some people on this board say she has a nice body. How about the face…why is she always hiding it with the hair? Enough say – trying too hard and she is getting old literally…no substance. Same Rachel Green acting and hairstyle.

  52. Cheyenne says:

    @Stella: She’s 42 years old. Maybe they photoshopped her legs to hide the incipient cellulite? Just a thought.

    For a woman her age she’s got a good body. I think she flaunts it so much because she realizes it’s all she’s got. The sad part is that at her age it can’t last much longer and when her body is gone she’ll have nothing to fall back on. I’m talking about talent, intelligence, personality etc., which most older actors are recognized for once their looks start to fade. Poor Jen is pretty much lacking in all three departments.

  53. Lucky Charm says:

    @ Roasalee – I would!!! I’d ask her straight out why a 42 year old woman who supposedly wants a serious, successful career persists with her juvenile behavior and wh@ring herself just to sell a movie or product. So many other actresses her age are successful without resorting to acting and dressing like a p@rn star. Unless that’s the role she really wants and is too afraid to do because it would let down her fans…

  54. lisa says:

    @rosalee.

    I don’t think they have to. She reads the gossip blogs, so I’m sure she is aware of what people are saying.

    I thought Jason, Jason and Charlie were the STARS of this film. And that Kevin, Colin and Aniston were supporting players. Her part only took a few days to shoot. So why is she front and center in the promotion of the film. I have not seen Colin or Kevin talk or do any interviews. So why all the Aniston face front.

    It would make sense if she actually had scenes with all the men, but she doesn’t so this makes no sense. I also notice that she had not given a long or real interview in years. All these magazine covers and yet the interview are nothing of interest. You never learn anything about her. what she thinks or something other than her friends and exercise routine.

    but I haven’t read her interviews so I could be way off.

    the black shorts/tux top look familiar..Can’t think why.

  55. ctkat1 says:

    Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman have been friends for over 15 years, from before ‘Friend’ and ‘Arrested Development.’

    In her 1996 Rolling Stone interview, she invited the interviewer to an Aspen ski trip she took with some friend, Bateman among them.

    I love gossip (obviously, I’m here all the time) but my favorite thing is to read old interviews of really famous people when they were just on the cusp of becoming famous. Back then, they didn’t have a team of publicists or image consultants cultivating the “persona” and so the celebrities are unguarded (and honest) in a way that they have completely lost over the years.

    The 1996 article:

    http://www.jenaniston.org/transcripts/stone96.php

    And my all-time favorite, just for the sheer ridiculousness of it and the fact that she trash talks every.single.other.actress, the 1998 Jennifer Lopez interview with Movieline:
    http://www.movieline.com/1998/02/the-wow-jennifer-lopez.php?page=1

  56. HRH says:

    I think she looks amazing – I LOVE her hair like this.

  57. jemshoes says:

    These shots are really cute and fun! Jennifer looks very pretty, and Jason Bateman is just gorgeous. 🙂

  58. Becky says:

    Thanks @ctkat1 for the link to 1996 Rolling Stone article. I actually remember reading it when it originally came out.

    I think it’s funny that JA was into flaunting her body back then, too-I guess some things never change whether she’s 27 or 42. She loves to show of the bod. I thought it was obnoxious, too, how she had to make a point that she was the one that rented the house in Aspen for her friends, that she bought her brother a Bronco for Christmas, etc. You could tell that she was super impressed with herself. Mid 1990’s-that was definitely her moment! I was in my early 20’s back then and remember how popular “Friends” was and what a big deal JA was at the time. So many guys I knew had major crushes on her.

  59. Charlotte says:

    I deem the whole shoot adorable. She’s not the most beautiful woman who ever lived (imho), but she’s certainly not unattractive. She’s beautiful in her own, unique way, and part of that beauty comes from how happy she really does look/seem. She’s lovely. That’s a good word for it, I’d say. I hate the pantless thing, just because it doesn’t go well with the jacket on the cover. But she could really pull anything off. I haven’t seen a movie of hers in a while, but this new one looks hilarious. And I don’t see anything weird or off with the chemistry between her and all these guys. It all seems fine.

  60. Heatherrr says:

    JASON BATEMAN IS THE SHIIIIIIIIIT!

  61. shay says:

    The cover shoot definitely looks weird but all the other pics look fun.I agree with Charlotte Jen isn’t the most beautiful actress but she’s very attractive.She’s never going to have problems finding a date.But more than her beauty she seems warm, funny, and like somone who’d be fun to hang out with.
    It’s strange to me that people are telling this woman to “grow up and act her age.” I’ll bet you guys are a the most serious, level-headed, intellectual, and oh yeah boring group of 40 year olds.She’s allowed to have girlfriends, guy friends, silly/fun times that aren’t hurting a soul.Just because she’s had some tough times in life doesn’t mean she forgot how to enjoy it and that is why she’s so well liked by women who’ve seen the tough times and manage to live/love/laugh anyway.

  62. Isa says:

    She needs to step away from the Bateman!!! Haha.

    I like the pictures of her hanging all over the guys, but don’t care too much for the pantless ones. I’m not sure what was going on with the styling there. In the pantless shot with her and Bateman it looks like she’s wearing a plunging leotard with a jacket over it?

    She looks really nice in the sequin dress. I like that they didn’t photoshop out her eye crinkles. But what did they do to her arm in the 3rd and 4th photo? It’s not that skinny.

    But I like her hair.

  63. Koretz says:

    She’s on the covers because she is, believe it or not, the biggest star of the film.

    I know people who dislike her don’t understand that she has a big following and they love to claim that her career is tanking but really, she’s still quite relevant and her career is fine.

  64. Thea says:

    I love Jason Bateman. Shame he is married. He would be perfect for her.

  65. Josephina says:

    Cheyenne- I co-sign with you.

    These are good pictures of her. A lot less photoshopping. Her pictures with Jason seem the most confidant.

    I am not a fan of her constantly having her hair in her face all the time— it looks like she is still covering up her face. It looks like most shots taken of her include hair in her face to distract the viewer from what is really there.

    She is definitely NOT a beauty queen, but she looks nice.

  66. miss silver says:

    Jason Bateman made The Switch worth seeing. His opening scene is hilarious.

  67. Crittle says:

    Hmmmm…Love the shoot

  68. Laughternrain says:

    She’s 42 years old, and shes done more pantless photoshoots than Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan combined. She is cheap, dirty and disgusting.

  69. Caribbean says:

    How can most of u ignore what u see when u see her as live as most of us will ever see TV or movie stars?…..When u see her live on televison doing interviews or whatever…..
    She looks NOTHNING like that!!!

  70. Jazz says:

    @ctkat1 – that Jennifer Lopez interview was epic!! Especially love the catty comments about Goopy. I miss that J Lo.

    Also loving the Bateman!

  71. TXCinderella says:

    My Mom thinks she is so cute, but I’ve never been that impressed with her. I guarantee you that she will go back to the stringy long hair look. She seems to have a pattern cutting off her hair into a cute style, then growing it back to the same look she had before she cut it off. It’s time for her to start doing some Lifetime movies.

  72. Anonymous says:

    “The Trick to Buying GREAT PANTS” dot looks a little bit out of place on this cover.

  73. jane says:

    OH CHARLIE MARRY ME PRETTY PLEASE

  74. skibunny says:

    @Laughternrain: stop coming off as so jealous! It’s obvious!

  75. Laughternrain says:

    ROFLMAO! Oh beep me dead, that is funny skibunny. You keep telling yourself that if it helps you get through the day. pmsl. Sorry, but if you think I, or anyone else, would possibly be jealous of someone like Jen, you seriously need help. I admit to being envious (not jealous) of several celebs, but Jen most definitely AIN’T one of them! bwhahaha, Sorry! You can keep saying “you jus jelus” all you want, if it helps you get through. But I can PROMISE you, with a hand over a Bible, that there is no way I would ever possibly or remotely, be jealous, or envious, of her. PMSL.

  76. rhonda says:

    very unfortunate picture. I googled to see if anyone else thought so. Thanks for relating!

  77. sage says:

    she’s annoying as $h!t. Just looking at this and reading the mag headlines.. screams pah-theh-tic! Seems she’ll always be in AJ’s shadow and desperate to compete. Least that’s how I see the annoying little bitch.

  78. shay lee says:

    Sage, I don’t think AJ can be overshadowing her as she isn’t even in the pictures.
    Don’t know why I had to say that but some people are so literal I can imagine them scrolling back up to find the iconic image of JA standing behind AJ in her shadow!
    Sorry guys it’s been a long day!
    BTW Anonymous I noticed the “Pants” headline too!Someone wasn’t paying much attention were they?

  79. Camille says:

    All I see is a lot of chin. Yikes! 😮

    Sorry but I have never and will never find this woman ‘beautiful’ or ‘sexy’ or ‘hot’. She just isn’t any of those things (IMO).

    And I also think people confuse having toned and shapely calves as having a ‘great body’. Her body isn’t that great (IMO). Halle Berry or Blake Lively have far better bodies than Aniston will ever have (and I’m not a fan of either of those women either FYI).

    I have been amazed and unimpressed at the continued hoopla over this shallow, disingenuous, unattractive woman since the Friends TV show days. She was the least talented or attractive one on the show. Brad Pitt helped things for her enormously. She went from a supporting actress on an ensemble TV show to a supporting actress in horrible romcoms. Ugh. Good on her though I guess 🙄 .

    I think Blake Lively may have taken some tips out of Anistons playbook on ‘how to make it’ in Hollywood lol.

    The only thing ‘enviable’ about Aniston is her bank account, the rest is laughable.

    😆 😀