Actress Gwyneth Paltrow stated during an interview for the Time magazine that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston could have avoid their break up.

Paltrow, 33, thinks it would be a lot easier for the Hollywood couple now if they had not talked to the press about their relationship.

"I learned my lesson at 24," Paltrow says. "It would be a lot easier on Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston now had they not talked to the press about each other and everything to begin with."

Gwyneth was engaged with Brad Pitt in 1997 and their relationship was much publicized, just like their break-up two years later after he left her for an older woman, Jennifer Aniston.

Gwyneth is currently married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, with whom she has a one-year old baby girl Apple Blythe Alison Martin. They keep their relationship private and even do what they can to not appear in any photos together.

"When I presented at the Oscars last year," Paltrow tells Time, "everyone would say to me 'Where's your husband? Is there trouble in the marriage?' And I was like; why on earth would I bring my husband?"

She also says: "Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it's our business."