Jennifer Aniston On Angelina: "Uncool" And "Inappropriate"

UPDATE: Watch Aniston Talk Angelina On Oprah

Jennifer Aniston is on the December 2008 cover of Vogue (READ WHOLE THING HERE) and speaking out about Angelina Jolie.

Aniston asked the reporter, Jonathan Van Meter, to turn off the tape recorder when first asked about her ex-husband Brad Pitt's partner. Here's what she did say on the record:

On being bothered that Angelina recounted a detailed timeline of how she fell in love with Brad Pitt on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith: "There was stuff printed there that was definitely from a time when I was unaware that it was happening. I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss. That stuff about how she couldn't wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool.

On if she ever speaks to Brad: "[We've exchanged] a few very kind hellos ... and congratulations on your babies... [We] had an amicable split ... The marriage didn't work out."

More the marriage:

"The marriage didn't work out... Pretty soon after we separated, we got on the phone and we had a long, long conversation with each other and said a lot of things, and ever since we've been unbelievably warm and respectful of each other."

Anistonays she's been "unbelievably lucky in love," but adds, "Whoever said everything has to be forever," she says. "That's setting your hopes too high. It's too much pressure. And I think if you put that pressure on yourself ... that's unattainable."

On her romance with John Mayer: "People need to mind their own business! Did you ever think Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield made sense? Love just shows up....

"It's funny when you hit a place in a relationship and you both realize [that] we maybe need to do something else, but you still really, really love each other. It's painful. There was no malicious intent. I deeply, deeply care about him; we talk, we adore one another. And that's where it is."

On when Mayer bragged about dumping her: "Trust me, you'll never see that happen again from that man."

Comments

[LillianB]

She isn't talking about it "for the first time", she's been talking about it nonstop since the divorce, always blaming Angelina and letting Brad off the hook - no blame towards him. (As I see it, the one person saying "I do" is the one responsible for keeping that promise, however tempting the offers coming his/her way are. Many, many, many people seem to have as a rule to always blame the woman instead, whether the woman is married or the "other". Man goes free.)

That said, I've read several interviews where AJ has claimed that nothing happened between her and BP until after he had left JA. In that recent interview JA is referring to, where AJ said that the two of them fell in love during the filming of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and that she was looking so much forward to go to work every day to see him (what JA is referring to as "very, very uncool") she is kind of changing that story, but not totally. It's fully possible to fall in love with someone and not act upon it until former connections are broken up, and what happened when can only be known by the people involved. I don't feel a need to know, but I don't think neither AJ nor anyone else deserves a three year long public beating for being "a home-wrecker". It takes two to tango, and only those two can know if they did anything they shouldn't have.

[don quixote12]

Aniston talking "non-stop"?? Aniston blaming "Jolie"?? You're either hallucinating or mistaking the press and fan blogs for Aniston.

[LillianB]

She's been talking volumes about it in every interview she has given since the divorce. Soon to be four years. And every time, Brad goes free from blame, whereas Angelina is shot down with it. So no, I am not hallucinating. Whereas I think JA is at liberty to say whatever she wants in her interviews, just like AJ can say whatever she wants in hers, to me it seems more than just a little bit pathetic to have to say things like these every time. Patethic, too, to let the one breaking a promise be less blamed than the woman he fell in love with. Declaring she's proud of the man and calling the woman inappropriate doesn't seem like "over it" to me.

[andj]

also the facts - like the birth of her daughter which kindoff proves an affair.


The issue is that Jolie had an affair and then went ahead and lied about how she never had an affair with a married man because it was done to her mother

Gives plenty of interviews and endlessly discusses it when she has a picture to promote. I dislike Jolies holier then thou attitude and her hypocracy.

Jen has kept vey quiet and has not bad mouthed anybody. She has shown more class then joile.

[EileneLepht]

another misleading headline where huffpo makes a mountain out of a molehill

[Mjlew]

I stil like Jenn more than Angie. Just personal taste. Jenn is beautiful.

[toochie50]

I just don't think she's that intelligent (Jennifer) she is the same in every single part that she plays - kind of crossing her own personality into every part as Rachel from Friends. She has a great figure but her face - not that pretty.

[maxsmom]

Move the hell on already!!!!!!!!!!

[sepiasiren]

She has moved on and as some posters here have said has even had other relationships, however she was ASKED a question and she answered honestly--I doubt anyone on here, guy or girl, would have goof things to say about someone who cheated on them during their marriage if they were ASKED about it even it it was ten years from now...

[Faxus]

I guess some people have a hard time letting go.

[hollybork]

Jennifer, stop reading all that junk and get a life. You are beautiful, healthy and rich. How bad could it be? PULEEASE.....

[sepiasiren]

Just because you have money and looks doesn't mean getting dumped on and being lied to hurts any less--she was asked a question and was gracious under the circumstances--if that had happened to me ya'll would really be freaking because I would have more than a few simple words to say about it...and if asked 4 years after the fact how I felt, I doubt my opinion on the affair woudl change one bit.

To all who are telling Jennifer she had no right to feel bad because somehow it was their fault--I want you to tell me how you would respond if you d found out tomorrow your partner was going behind you back and cheating just because things may have slowed down a bit..

new flash--relationships fluctuate--it isn't a romance 24/7 -- mature people know this and work through issues--they don't resort to cheating--and a woman of substance leaves a marriage in peril alone or at least waits till the man is free.

No wonder the divorce rate is so high...

[bradleyHertzel]

Aniston is a gorgeous woman ... the cover is a knock-out, but doesn't do Aniston justice. Why Pitt would cheat on his beautiful wife and leave her for Angelina Jolie is beyond all sense. I mean, Jolie would certainly be a wild romp in the hay, but she had to maniipulate his lust for a mini-me, to get in her hooks.

From reading the article, it's clear that Aniston has moved on and is fine. She was gracious in answering the question the interviewer posed, and has enopugh integrity to answer it honestly but tactfully.

[sepia830]

Will Jennifer Aniston ever stop making bitter comments about losing Brad? I realize it's Brad Pitt, but for crying out loud she's been with numerous men since he left her. Attention Jennifer: Stop bringing it up!!!

[smartalek]

I'll admit I didn't read the whole piece, just the excerpts above -- but it sounds to me as if Ms Aniston didn't bring it up; the interviewer did.

[trudem2]

And a gracious reply would have been......."that's all in the past. Now, as for my future....."

[sepiasiren]

Jennifer didn't bring it up she was asked and was honest about it...

[marymansour]

They were surely not as bitter as mine would have been, considering the circumstances.

[andj]

your post is more bitter than any of Anistons comments

[sepiasiren]

I want every woman who defends Angelina to think about how they would feel if they had problems in their marriage and some woman swooped in like some brazen opportunist to bust things up. All marriages experience issues at some point --this doesn't give anyone on the planet carte blanche to step in and take someone away.

And yes--Brad Pitt is to blame too and the karmic payback is coming to both of them.

They didn't even have the decency to wait until the marriage was officially over to flaunt their relationship--a slap in the face to any woman or man, celebrity or no...

And then they act as if Jennifer shouldn't feel hurt about it-- what the ---???? No matter, what Brad WAS her husband and they WERE married people!

That is what I didn't like--it was low class and inappropriate--Jerry Springer even...

I have never cheated on anyone I was with and if I felt unhappy I left before I would even go there--and there were times, when I was hurt, where it could have happened...

I had and maintained care and respect for the person I was with--even when things went sour...

Who could trust a person who would do that? When guys with a girlfriend or wife approached me I would always say to myself "How can I trust this a person if he could do this to someone he made a commitment to?"

Says a lot.

[srdon]

what i remember vividly is jolie responding in an interview, prior to she and brad being "officially" together, that there was no way she would get involved with a married man and there was no way she could ever respect a married man who would want to get involved with her. at the time, i thought "wow, she has integrity" and she was telling the truth. the fact is she lied so well.

i don't have a problem with someone's marriage ending, having had 3 end myself! what isn't cool is getting involved without ending it first.

[sepiasiren]

I agree srdon -- sometimes marriages end despite how hard you try to save it--but at least allow a person the chance to save it right?

If she had waited till things disintegrated, as they obviously were, she wouldn't look like she came in when both people were struggling and vulnerable and took advantage.

I have never liked her since and can't even see her on the screen..

I think Angelina is beautiful, but so many people with horrid characters carry physical beauty--not impressive.

[dlvme2]

Just because someone says they fell in love during a period does not mean they were having sex at the time - she can fall in love and be in love without being sexually involved and there is a difference - falling in love is not cheating - it is what you do about it. Brad and Jen had problems for some time and he met someone that shared his views and things just happen. Who knows when the consumated the relationshp which is no ones business. But Angie had always said she would not sleep with a married man and who is to say she did not hold to that - besides it is in the past - who cares. You cannot lose something or someone - they are either yours or they are not and yes it hurts.

[andj]

srdon

Spot on - I dont know why people dont understand that.

And then giving interviews and blatantly lying about it to promote her latest picture.

[smartalek]

Very smart.
Pretty good rule o' thumb: "If you'll cheat on someone else with me, you're gonna cheat on me with someone else."
(I had to learn that the hard way. I hope you figured it out without a painful lesson.)
If everyone took that into account, there'd be a lot less cheating, and fewer marriages broken up. (That's not necessarily to say there'd be fewer failed marriages. But I'd bet that would be true too.)

[sepiasiren]

Hey smartalek -- I made some doozies when it came to romance, but I never went for attached men--when I learned they were it instantly turned me off--instantly...lol

But we all have our own paths and I do hope you don't beat yourself up for that mistake--sometimes, as Woody Allen says--the heart wants what it wants.

I just think we are so lulled into ideas of instant gratification ala SEX AND THE CITY Carrie and Mr Big that we assume that the pursuit of happiness is no holds barred and should be had even at the expensive of the people who love and trust you..

Blessed be sis and hugs to you!

[TiberiusKirk]

There's no such thing as stealing someone's spouse, nobody stole them from you, they left you, plain and simple.

[bradleyHertzel]

In an "ivory tower" idealistic way, you are right... but in the real worl, the situation is more complex. Someone who is feeling dissatisfied with teh woman he is with is not going to cheat unless there is opportunity. There is not opportunity unless the other woman is receptive and makes this clear, and both choose to "go there". Both have repsonsibility for their philandering. If the "other woman" said "no" there would be a lot less pain and shizzle in the world.

[sepiasiren]

I agree--that is why I say both of them are at fault--they could have at least waited till the relationship was over to start making their BS relationship public--as I said...karma...

And as I also said--decent and integrity can be exercised even when temptation is present . There was a guy--a friend of one of my exes--very attractive and emotionally, someone who would have been great fro me during a time when my man was growing distant and, I later learned, cheating with a man ( he was closet gay--nothing wrong with that but would have been nice to know).

This man and I were in a situation where we were alone ( as he had come to the house to chill and await my man's arrival)

Chemistry was there and I was feeling a bit lonely -- and it could have went there...

When the tension grew a bit heavy I said. "Hey why don't we go sit on the porch and wait for so and so...

Having issues is no excuse for breaking the promise you made to another individual...if it is that bad just leave

[sepiasiren]

And also--why is it always the girls fault if the man leaves? why can't the man be mature enough to say i want out--then he can bag all the babes he wants without hurting someone or making them look like a fool?

Also, plenty of men cheat because they feel they are entitled to.

I met a married man online who befriended me and then started coming on to me. He eventually told me he was married and sent me a picture of his beautiful, in shape blonde wife and two boys.

I was stupefied and told him was a jerk he was. I also told him if he was so unhappy why didn't he get a divorce.

"Oh I am not unhappy, my wife is great," he wrote, "I just like variety..."

Cheating behaviors cannot always be traced to marriage dissatisfaction if fact, I think a man who cheats simply has that inclination and problem becomes their excuse...

But not matter the reason, it is wrong when it occurs period...

[blastit]

I think some of these women who are defending JA is just jealous of Angelina because she goes after what she wants and gets it, she wanted Brad viola she got him!

[sepiasiren]

Yes--but it far easier to enter a situation and remove someone from you if they are having problems, which isn't fair--how can you work through your issues in a mature fashion if someone with an agenda is tossing a monkey wrench into it BOTH people bear a responsibility in it and it is a low thing to do no matter what the circumstances are.

[dlvme2]

If I recall for the year or so before that Jen and Brad had been trying to work on things with visits to Courtney Cox's home and several other times - they tried. It did not work.

[andj]

Marriage is a commitment. If it does end then they owe you some respect. TiberiusKirk how would you like your husband to cheat on you and lie to you about it????

[diwdeesmom]

It looks like she is trying very hard to send the message "See??? I do have boobees!" That is a pretty pained looking smile. Maybe she just learned she needs a root canal or two, like I just did. I think I could muster up a more sincere smile than that even today! Also, she should sit up straight, she is too young to be hunchbacked. That photo would definitely make me shy away from purchasing that magazine. Not that I waste my money on that kind of crap anyway.

[andj]

Aniston figure is so much sexier the skelatinas.

[Titus Pullo]

Say what you will ...
... Legs for months

[LeiftheLucky]

By what standard Jennifer? If there is no transcendent moral authority, no standard, only individual preferences as defined by whim or convention, then who is to say what is or is not appropriate, what is or is not cool? However, this is very cool:

http://allanerickson.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/noahs-ark-rebuilt-very-cool/

[Furby]

Let's put it this way. If your wife has an affair with another man, and that other man starts talking to yours and your ex-wife's common friends about how he and your wife met before you got a divorce, would you think that's cool or uncool? I'm guessing that's the transcendent moral authority standard being used by Miss Aniston. So to extrapolate on this basic premise in addressing your question as to what's appropriate and what isn't, if we are to apply similar standards to comments as we would to marriages, your above comment would be considered inappropriate.

[leftoflennon]

stick a fork in it Jen.

That cover is so not flattering.

[Furby]

Do you have any favourite body parts in which you would like that fork stuck?