Jennifer Aniston made a rare reference to the aftermath of her relationship with ex-husband Brad Pitt — which included his new love Angelina Jolie.
In a Monday, August 11, profile with Vanity Fair, Aniston, 56, referred to that era of her headline-making life “the love triangle.” Aniston noted that her approach to pushing through that time was to “just pick yourself up by the bootstraps and keep on walking, girl.”
“It was such juicy reading for people. If they didn’t have their soap operas, they had their tabloids,” Aniston said, before adding of the media madness, “It’s a shame that it had to happen, but it happened. And boy did I take it personally.”
“They were sort of building us up and then tearing you down,” she continued, comparing herself to a piñata.
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After her remark, the outlet noted that Aniston put her hands over her eyes and wondered whether she just quoted a line from her The Morning Show character, news anchor Alex Levy.
“Oh God, did I just quote The Morning Show?” she said, before adding, “I didn’t have a strong enough constitution to not get affected by it. We’re human beings, even though some people don’t want to believe we are. They think, ‘You signed up for it, so you take it.’ But we really didn’t sign up for that.”
Pitt, now 61, and Aniston began their relationship in 1998, after they were set up by their agents. The next year, Pitt proposed and the couple tied the knot in 2000. Five years later, Pitt and Aniston were divorced.
While Pitt was still married to Aniston, he met Jolie, now 50, on set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Pitt and Jolie subsequently began dating, getting engaged in 2012. The pair tied the knot two years later and went on to share six children before she filed for divorce in 2016. Their messy divorce battle was finalized in 2024.
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Aniston, meanwhile, moved on with Justin Theroux in 2011. The twosome exchanged vows in 2015, separating two years later. Aniston and Theroux’s divorce was finalized in 2018. She has since sparked a romance with hypnotist Jim Curtis.
In July, a source exclusively told Us Weekly that “mutual friends” set up Aniston and Curtis, 49. The pair “started off as friends” but went on to “really hit it off” over time. (Us reached out to Aniston’s rep and Curtis at the time.)
“They’ve been hanging out a lot, but very much on the DL at her home in L.A.,” the insider shared. “It’s very Zen, and she has always been very much into that. They’re a good match.”
