Jen Tells All: LOVE, LOSS & FINDING PEACE

TWO DECADES AFTER ENDURING THE DRAMA OF A 'LOVE TRIANGLE,' A RESILIENT JENNIFER ANISTON REFLECTS ON HER PAINFUL PAST — AND ADMITS SHE STILL GOSSIPS ABOUT EX BRAD PITT.

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KNOWING HERWORTH "If there's an area in my life where I have no fear, it's in my career - of speaking up for what I want. I don't do it in a scary or mean way. I just know my value," Jen says in Vanity Fair's September issue.

MONTHS after her four-year marriage to Brad Pitt ended 20 years ago, and he'd publicly started flaunting his relationship with new love Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston famously criticized her ex. Her candid comments came after Brad posed in a headline-making 60-page W magazine feature depicting him and his Mr. & Mrs. Smith costar as a 1960s-era husband and wife with a brood of blond children — just as critics were falsely accusing Jen of choosing her career over starting a family with Brad. "There's a sensitivity chip that's missing," Jen dryly declared in the September 2005 issue of Vanity Fair, adding with a verbal eyeroll, "We're divorced, and you can see why."

It was a groundbreaking moment for the A-lister, who was widely seen as the woman on the losing side of the love triangle at the time. Two decades later, Jen is setting the record straight. In Vanity Fair's September 2025 issue, the 56-year-old reflected on that "vulnerable time," then shared her mantra for surviving unending scrutiny: "Just pick yourself up by the bootstraps and keep on walking, girl." (In a sign she's done just that, she joked about her PTSD from the earlier interview, saying the experience was "one for the memoirs.") Now, she's getting real again about navigating new loves, painful losses and finally making peace. "She sees no reason to backtrack," a source tells Star. "She's just as transparent — perhaps more so. Ask her a question, and Jen will give it to you straight. She's not afraid to talk about her vulnerabilities. She has nothing to lose by telling the truth."

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