HEARTBREAK & &HEALING

Two failed marriages within the span of two decades pushed Jennifer Aniston to rethink what she really wants for herself!

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In the spring of 2005, Jennifer Aniston filed to divorce Brad Pitt after nearly five years of marriage. A few years later, he and Angelina Jolie confirmed widespread speculation they'd had an affair while he was still with Jen, confessing him to Rolling Stone, her to The New York Times they “fell in love” while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2004. “There are many stages of grief,” Jen told Vanity Fair weeks before her first divorce was finalized. “It’s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open... when you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.”

Going through such a public split was a trial rife with “anger,” “hurt” and “embarrassment,” admitted the Friends star, who tried “really hard to rise above it.” And she did. A decade later, she wed Justin Theroux, 53. But in 2017, they, too, went their separate ways, though their breakup was far less dramatic, with Justin telling The New York Times it was “gentle,” “amicable” and “as painless as it could be.”

Looking back, Jen “readily admits to friends she’s been unlucky in love,” a source tells