I must confess, I never paid any attention to her before her split from Brad Pitt, and then the Vanity Fair interview happened. After reading the interview, I thought, what a cold, conniving, manipulative woman. I would have had more respect for her as a woman if she had come out and said “Brad cheated on me”, but NO, in that passive aggressive behavior of hers, she tells us she will always love Brad but unleashes her friends to do the attack, and allowed the interviewer to bash Brad’s new woman and her young children. If there was ever any chance of me feeling any pity for her, that dissipated right there.
The Vanity Fair interview gave birth to the pity party and the never ending triangle that has become a cottage industry for the tabloids. “Poor Jen”, dumped by “the cad” for the “homewrecker” Jolie, every woman that has ever been dumped now had a figure to unleash their hurt feelings. Brad Pitt became that guy that dumped them or cheated on them, even though Brad has never had any reputation of ever having cheated on a partner, and his ex-girlfriends have always said he was the perfect gentleman.
Whenever I read articles saying how Jennifer handled her divorce with class, I am amused to no end. Is making a career out of your divorce classy? Nicole Kidman handled her divorce with class, even publicly wished her ex-husband well at the birth of his daughter, but Jennifer was too bitter to show that kind of class, because she doesn’t have it.
The media has to a large extent become enablers for this girl-woman. They never hold her accountable for her behaviors, they seem to be beholden to her Publicist and of course, it sells to continue feeding the public the girl next door image, though I don’t know how many people could afford a $1om dollars home let alone live next door to her. I am still laughing at how the same media was played by the “American sweetheart” constantly telling them that a baby is on the way even as she signs up for seven movies while her marriage disintegrates around her. This is a woman who chose movie stardom over a family life, nothing wrong with the choice, but be clear about your choices and own your life’s decision instead of blaming it on someone else.
I am tired of the media treating this woman with kid gloves and glossing over her mistakes. She is never responsible for any of her actions, not in her personal or professional life and yet I am supposed to feel sorry for her because she lied to her husband about having a family that she never wanted, and when he wised up to her deceit, he high tailed it out of there. This is a woman with a manufactured public personae and that is why she looks scared to death in most of her pictures. She looks like a woman who is afraid her real life will catch up with her and she will be exposed for the fraud that she is. That must be the biggest price she has to pay for fame, knowing she has to live a lie. Some public people would rather be hated for who they are than to be loved for who they are not, and those people have my utmost respect because they live honestly.
Jennifer worked so hard to get my pity even as she exploited her breakup for career advancement. I adore strong women who live their lives boldly and honestly and make no apologies for their choices. The poor Jen shtick has worn thin. She is still working that pity party the way that only she can, I am almost certain that she doesn’t miss her marriage, but misses the opportunities that being Mrs Pitt accorded her, and she will continue ride his coattail for as long as it serves her well.
There is something ironic about the media appointed “American Sweetheart”, they always end up imploding. Who can forget how the media treated Christina Aguilera very harshly while selling Britney as the wholesome virgin, time has a way of exposing the truth, between Christina and Britney, who is looking wholesome right now? So I do have faith that after all the PR orchestrated new relationships, Jennifer might still redeem herself by owning up to her life and telling the truth, and then maybe she could stop looking like a woman who is afraid of her skeleton filled closet being exposed to the world, Christina is certainly having the last laugh over the media crafted image of Britney, the real Britney emerged, just that it took a bit long. The real Jennifer will be exposed, it just might take a bit too long.
Once again you have written a well thought out article. I am still puzzled as to why Jennifer Aniston gets a free pass from the media, yet they have no compunction about going after Ms. Jolie with all kinds of malicious and salacious stories. It’s easy to ignore it when it comes from the tabloids, but, when some in the mainstream, supposedly legitimate media get in on the act too, it leaves me quite baffled. It’s as though there’s a concerted effort on their part to “break” Ms. Jolie. She is not a child molester, hasn’t killed or maimed anyone or started an unjust war, yet she is treated little better than the scum of the earth.
Oh God…i am sitting here … SPEACHLESS!
You did it again Maary!
CONGRATULATIONS!
I dont even have anything more to say, you pretty much said everything i ever felt about that ‘fraud’ since the beginning. You said so eloquantly.
You should email that post to some ‘decent’ publications out there, maybe they will start to pay attention to what all of knew all along…that Anniston is not “America’s Sweetheart” but a fraud and a fake.
I liked it. It was a great article. well done. You should think about a video blog on youtube. I think the world needs to SEE and HEAR what you guys write.
mary keep preaching the gospel about the fraud that has become jennifer aniston’s jail-she has to live with her actions.
Me, too. I have never paid attention to Jennifer Aniston until I read about her pity party in the news. Living in Europe “Friends” is not that popular, perhaps this sitcom has been running in the UK, but not in all European countries, and even then just at random. I agree, Jennifer got her “international” fame due to her split. I went to watch the movie “Break-up” by curiosity, who that woman is, all the news’s writing about. So did many people I knew. But the movie proved that she was not that super woman according to the amount of attention she receives from the media.
Interestingly, though the media tries to spread all over the world that image of an innocent nice girl who was erroneously left by her blind hunk, I couldn’t buy that story. I became much more suspicious and felt the stings behind. What you wrote about her and her aura, confirms what I have been observing all the time, and I am sure, I am not the only person.
I believe that people with some analytical sensitivity wouldn’t buy this kind of story. Additionally, I couldn’t understand why she was so worshipped by the American fans though she has nothing to offer. America became my next object of observation. If Jennifer’s beauty was special like models, if she had acting talent like Meryl Streep or Nicole Kidman, if she could sing like Christina Aguilera or even Britney Spears, if she were trend-setter like Madonna, I would understand her fans and think, oh well celebrities have certain influence on people. But Jennifer Aniston has nothing, she has an average aura which is artifically inflated, a kind of plastic surgery of her self-image. I have nothing against average woman, but then I prefer to go out with my real girl-next-door. Jennifer Aniston is way too much overrated, and this could only be thanks to the media and the person behind, Jennifer Aniston’s press agent and publicist. She has enough money to pay them. I feel pity for Jennifer. It’s not a pity of compassion, but a pity, that she is really inside poor in spite of her millions and properties she possesses. I don’t think she is happy with what she is doing. If I were Jennifer, I would feel miserable, especially when looking at my fans. Most of her fans are mentally and spiritually immature… and that’s very scary.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Excellent as usual…. It strikes me funny, I feel like I know you very well, very well, indeed
Because if I had the writitng skills you do, I couldn’t have said it any better…You remind me of a long time cyberfriend… Keep up the great work. I am hooked as in hook, line and sinker. I will try to spread the word around re this great site 
Well written article. This is the first time we’ve come across this blog but will make sure to check it out often from now own.
It is just so frustrating to see the power the media has in brainwashing people into believeing whatever helps sell more tabs. Instead of worrying that major telecom corporations are now censoring new and content delivering to the American public, they obsessed with the made-up soap operan triangle around Brad Pitt. Scary! You guys should make yourself heard…
I’m blown away!!! Once again you got right into my very thoughts! The part about her looking scared all the time….I have always thought that she was just not telling the truth. Your article is wonderful.
Oh no you didn’t!!! ROTFLMAO!!
Bravo, “the truth should set you free.”
This time I’m at odds with AJGoddess I think you should let the “legit” news media find you because you would then have a better chance of them publishing it.
It’s about time that “pity party” express be closed down and never reused again. It’s just a shame that Jennifer Aniston as been held up as a role model to women. It makes me sick to my stomach that the “mean girl” mentality is alive and florishing.
I don’t understand how Aniston got a free pass for so long. This is a women who hates her own family but love collecting others, including the Arquettes. This is a women who surround herself with en-ablers and yes men and names them her tribe. This is a women who got her big break on television and gave interviews and interviews saying tv was now beneath her and cause significant damages to her acting ability….pulease what acting ability?
Okay she does have the ability to emote non threatening likable losers and that’s a great ability if you what to have a large woman fan base. Because there is nothing better for most women, then to lord it over another woman.
And there’s lies Jennifer Aniston secret, most women don’t feel sorry for her, they pity her.
You wrote another gem today and it echoes my views as well. I actually thought J.A. was pretty and photogenic before but after wading thru the mudslinging on Angie, that impression radically and quickly changed. The smear campaigns are just too well-orchestrated, shrewd and pervasive to be simply coming from her fans. I mean, blogs/sites/threads are blanketed with hateful rumors trying to create an impression that people hate Angie and for the most biased and ridiculous
reasons. The sane majority of us is not going to be so easily deceived and manipulated. As you say, the truth always prevail in the end. I think someone needs a master class on being classy from the likes of Nicole K. and Reese W.
*clap* *clap* *clap* B-R-A-V-O
there was no “home, sweet home” , no family, no kids , nothing to wreck in the first place;
Jennifer was happy that her then husband was far away shooting Troy; they were apart almost 6 months;
and she said: thanks God, because they would have hung each other on a tree!!!
after all he was not the love of her life!
thanks God, they are free from each other , but not in the TERMS of good girl: she misses the golden status;
that ’s the reason and the only one she was and still is crying out loud ;
thank you Maary for your article!
Another awesome article. I’ve never understood the media’s fascination with this woman. I could never understand the fixation with her hair. To me, her fame was a media fabricated one. She really didn’t stand out from any of the other Friends until she married Brad. That was when it seemed the media went into overdrive to try to convince the public that she was wonderful and perfect. I agree with Coco, what does this woman have to offer? She’s a sweetheart because she has impeccable hair and always looks tanned? Please.. Any sympathy I may have had for her, quickly ended when I read that VF article. I thought it was two faced for her to try to look like she was taking the high road while having her friends do all her dirty work. You can’t have it both ways. It beats me that anyone could admire a self-absorbed, wimpy and insecure woman.
Thanks again for the article.
An excellent post. My kudos to the author.
You summed up every thing I have felt about this woman. I only came to tolerate her while she was married to Brad. To me, she only married him to get her foot in the door of the A-Listers. She certainly is NOT of the same calibre of her ex and ceratinly not of her ex’s current love. I have always thought of her as a fakir. She’s not that good an actress and certainly not as interesting a person as Angelina Jolie is.
In all truth, for a time I really wasn’t so sure about Angelina. Her lifestyle with BBT always bothered me, but when she became the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador for Refugees, she certainly changed my opinion of her. I truly do feel Maddox changed her in a way Jennifer Aniston cannot possibly be mature enough to understand. That she also couldn’t see the need for Brad to want to be a father, something he expressed he wanted even before he met Ms. Aniston, then she truly is shallow.
I came across this blog through a link on IMDB on Angelina Jolie’s board. I have a photosite dedicated to Angie and Brad. I have linked this blog through my site. I am honoured to know there is someone out there speaking the truth.
Now if only Michael Musto could read your entries, I’d be tickled pink to know he MIGHT have received SOME form of an education.
Keep up the good work. I’ll be checking back often.
Prometheus1816
Another article showing great insight.
We can only hope that the people promoting this image of her loose their power, because that is the only way we can hope to end the campaign she ’started’ against Angie & Brad.
The ripples are proving to be far reaching, with more and more people, women especially choosing to believe all that they are fed. Majority of reasons are already stated, but also because most women are jealous of Angie and find her threatening. The “mean girls” analogy is a great one, because there is that “lemming” characteristic in these women. There’s power in groups, and it’s difficult to turn the tide. Impossible if you blindly and absolutely believe in your cause.
There is something ironic about the media appointed “American Sweetheart”, they always end up imploding. Who can forget how the media treated Christina Aguilera very harshly while selling Britney as the wholesome virgin, time has a way of exposing the truth, between Christina and Britney, who is looking wholesome right now?
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Yep, the tabloid media and her spin perpetuating the golden girl image, a girl you bring home to mom. The girl next door one should marry. But the irony is that this is a “girl” who proudly announced on Letterman that she slept with Brad Pitt on their first date. And later on moved in with him on their second date. She lived with a man for 2 yrs and showed off her iced nipples on TV.
I’m not an American. And I don’t quite understand why the American media seems to always try to tear/put down Angelina and Brad. Do they really believe the American Sweet Heart crap created by themselves?
Can someone help give me some sensible explain why the media is doing that? Why are they blind to the fraud but keep attacking somone as authentic as a person can be? Is it true that nowadays in America that only yellow journalism can sell?
I’m loosing my trust to the American media. It used to be the gold standard of honest journalism in the world. It failed and failed miserably.
excellent article. Thanks.
Great article. When Jennifer and Brad broke up, I didn’t feel much. After all, I don’t know them and hey, celebrity couples in hollyweird break up all the time. Then when Brad was photographed with Angelina and Maddox on the beach, I thought, goodness, don’t those 3 look like they belong together. Just something about the way Brad, Angelina and Maddox looked were in the Kenyan photos – like a family.
But I did feel a quite sorry for Jennifer, after all, for all the talk about children not being the reason for the break up, it was clear that Brad was comfortable with Maddox and wanted children enough to accept him and his mother. I know of men who don’t even want their OWN children, let alone someone elses. Then when Brad went with Angelina to get Z, I did feel even sorrier for Jennifer.
Then came the VF interview and I thought, what a spiteful manipulative cowardly woman Jennifer is. Getting her friends to say what she didn’t want to say. That’s when I stopped feeling sorry for her and lost respect for the way she runs her life.
By the time the VF interview came out, it was clear that there was NO EVIDENCE that Brad and Angelina behaved anyway inappropriately coz there was not a single photo of them hugging or kissing or even coming out of each others trailer on the M&MS set. Then both Brad and Angelina went their separate ways. he to do more films, and she too.
But I confess, I did feel sorry for Jennifer again months later. For some reason, when derailed premiered, I remembered the comment of one critic said of the scene when the clive owen and jennifer character first met on the train that Angelina would have nailed the Jennifer scene, with a single lift of her eyebrow. I actually watched derailed months later at a friends home and saw that scene the critic was describing and thought – yep, that critic was right. Angelina would have nailed it. Instead, (don’t know why I thought it but that really was my first thought) – poor Jennifer just looked constipated .
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I am an American and it is appalling what they are doing to both Angelina and Brad. Personally, I think that the reason why the American press are suspicious of her is because they never encountered her likes before; she’s smart, very beautiful, confoundingly sexual, and capable of evolving. And the fact that America is a specific type of patriarchy, many hate the fact that Angelina has pulled herself from that dark, complicated place, which adds to the fascination, without a male figure or Oprah rooting for her or patting her on the back.
Few things are scarier than a woman who doesn’t need society’s validation about any aspect of her life. She sought out the UN; she adopts in her 20s; she still had a sex life despite being a single mother; she hooks up with the ex of America’s alleged sweetheart, who, despite being seen as the sexiest man alive, is from the Midwest… the flag-waving, farmer’s markets, county fair-having Midwest.
Angelina embodies a sensibility that seems more international and all of a sudden, people didn’t want that for Brad Pitt. Somewhere along the line, a lot of Americans, specifically, female fans, decided that they knew what would be best for him. Gwyneth Paltrow was too haughty and high and mighty for him, in their eyes, until she went on Oprah, of course. They decided that although he was totally fcukable, had money, and seemed down to earth, it was time to settle down. He was probably coming to that conclusion too, not because of the company he was keeping, but maybe because of his upbringing and how he envisioned his life.
When he went on Oprah, Oprah and her princess audience went to work on him, despite his dating Aniston for, what, a couple of months? Right then, he became an honorary woman, a position he never campaigned for. Unfortunately, too many women put too much emotion into that pairing, and when he tried to make things easier by not fighting the divorce, the princesses lost their shit. From experience, there is nothing worse than being ’shafted’ by a nice guy, especially a nice guy whose fcukable and has money. He became a man again, but the worst stereotype of a man, in their eyes.
He goes to Angelina, who’s smoking hot, and was a single mother of one at the time. People figured that he would become a hotel lover, someone who would never be exposed to Maddox; instead, he is exposed to Maddox and bonds with him. Angelina adopts a sickly Ethopian orphan; people expected Zahara’s illness to put the relationship on hold and, maybe, kill the relationship. Instead, Brad is hanging out on TGS set with both Maddox and Zahara. It was common knowledge that Brad wanted biological children; Angelina said that she would only adopt; major baby bump in January 2006– people really lost their shit, saying it was hypocritical of Angelina to even have a biological child given her stance. Apparently, a woman’s prerogative to change her mind doesn’t apply to Angelina Jolie.
Anyway, Brad and Angelina are the personification of ‘Oh yes I can’, when the press and the people whom they are purported to represent have ‘Oh, no you can’t'-track minds. Nothing that either of them have done has compromised anyone’s safety, financial stability, health, moral compass, etc. Everyone who pops off about these two are making a conscience decision to invest themselves in whatever decisions these two make. Just because too many people feel inadequate, Brad and Angelina have to get the shit kicked out of them, routinely. It’s ridiculous!
19 JJB yuku fan ………………………………….But I confess, I did feel sorry for Jennifer again months later. For some reason, when derailed premiered, I remembered the comment of one critic said of the scene when the clive owen and jennifer character first met on the train that Angelina would have nailed the Jennifer scene, with a single lift of her eyebrow. I actually watched derailed months later at a friends home and saw that scene the critic was describing and thought – yep, that critic was right. Angelina would have nailed it. Instead, (don’t know why I thought it but that really was my first thought) – poor Jennifer just looked constipated .
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