Jennifer Anniston, the popular American sweetheart shot to fame with her role as Rachel Green on the TV show Friends. Over the 10 seasons, and the 15 years, the actress has managed to remain humble and successfully avoided public crises that plagued some of the other A-list stars.
According to a Hollywood Life report, the actress stated that she has ‘a godsend of support’ and she had quite a few ‘positive people’ around her. She also admitted that her estranged mother, Nancy Dow, impacted her. She said, “I also grew up watching someone [Nancy] sit comfortably in victimhood, and I didn’t like how it looked.
She explained “I knew that this person was giving me an example of what I’d never want to be, and I will never ever be that. I think it’s toxic, and it erodes your insides and your soul. And listen, is it a sliver of an annoyance to have to publicly go through dark shit in front of the world? Yes, it’s an inconvenience, but it’s all relative. So, I had a choice to make: Either I’m going to surrender into bonbons and live under my covers or I’m going to go out there and find a creative outlet and thrive, and that’s what I did.”
Jennifer did get a lot of media attention because of her former marriage to stars, Brad Pit and Justin Theroux. She did admit that things were different these days. She revealed, “What the tabloids and the media did to people’s personal lives back then, regular people are doing now.”
She admitted she hasn’t seen a tabloid in a while but “now you’ve got social media. It’s almost like the media handed over the sword to any Joe Schmo sitting behind a computer screen to be a troll or whatever they call them and bully people in comment sections. So it’s just sort of changed hands in a way. And I don’t know why there’s such a cruel streak in society. I often wonder what they get off on.”
The actress sees the journey of working on the show as a blessing. She admitted that even though it was ‘jarring’ and that everything ‘just changed overnight,’ she added ‘if it happened [she] would not be sitting here the woman that I am.’
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