Actress does Allure, loses her top for photoshoot

Dec 16, 2014 07:28 GMT  ·  By
Jennifer Aniston does Allure, talks about her choice to not be a mother
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   Jennifer Aniston does Allure, talks about her choice to not be a mother

Jennifer Aniston is 45 years old but she still makes headlines in the glossies and the tabloids with pregnancy rumors almost on a weekly basis – and has been for over a decade. That narrative is getting old, and most importantly, on Jennifer’s nerves, she admits in a new interview with Allure magazine, the January 2015 issue.

The interview comes with a stunning photospread, including one photo in which she and longtime hairstylist Chris McMillan, the one responsible for her famous “Friends” cut known as “The Rachel” and for her impeccable style throughout the years, lose their tops and pose together in a friendly embrace.

Aniston also talks about feminism, her “Cake” role that’s made her into a bona fide Oscar hopeful, and her fiancé Justin Theroux, whom she calls the best man ever. Buckle up!

Enough with the pressure!

Jennifer Aniston is sick and tired of hearing and reading the same story about herself over and over again: she should get pregnant and have babies, and she’s selfish for not wanting to expand her brood – and for focusing on her career.

She’s not selfish and she’s under no obligation whatsoever to have children, only because she’s a woman. What she does with her body is entirely her choice, she stresses.

“I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women – that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated. I don't think it's fair. You may not have a child come out of you, but that doesn't mean you aren't mothering – dogs, friends, friends' children,” she explains.

Saying that she’s selfish because she made the choice to not have babies and because she’s focusing on her career equals doing her an injustice: it’s her choice and she (or anyone else for that matter) shouldn’t be judged for it. Everyone has the right to decide what they want in life – and Aniston’s plan doesn’t include children, as it so happens.

About that role for which she ditched the makeup

For the first time in her career, Aniston is getting Oscar buzz, for her performance in “Cake,” in which she plays a woman with chronic back pain. For the role, she famously ditched the makeup and gained a few pounds, a detail on which she focused a lot early on in her Oscar campaign, stressing in countless interviews how “liberating” and “empowering” it was to go makeup-free.

She’s switching her tune a bit in Allure, saying that the attention she got for not wearing makeup in the film is proof of everything that’s wrong with Hollywood, even though she made sure to capitalize on that attention – and even encouraged it.    

“A woman going physically unattractive is where you get recognition and some sort of respect. You read things like, ‘Oh, finally, she's acting!’ [It’s] quite sexist, to be honest, because men don't get that,” she scoffs.

It’s true that women are under a lot more scrutiny in the media, and as such, under more pressure to look a certain way, but Aniston is making it sound as if she had exactly zero reasons to be happy that she got attention for going makeup-free.

As for the “Finally, she’s acting!” comment (which she did get, quite a lot, with “Cake”), that’s not because she ditched the makeup but because she finally stepped out of her comfort zone and did something else for a change than a rom-com.

Jennifer Aniston in Allure, January 2015 (5 Images)

Jennifer Aniston does Allure, talks about her choice to not be a mother
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