Jennifer Aniston On Oprah (VIDEO)

As reported yesterday by People magazine, Jennifer Aniston appeared on Oprah Thursday to promote her Christmas film "Marley & Me," but first talked about her Vogue interview in which she called Angelina Jolie's comments about the genesis of her relationship with Aniston's then-husband Brad Pitt "uncool." She also talked about Brad, her pride for him, and her feelings on their movies coming out the same day (his is "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button).

Also on the show, but not in the clip below, Aniston talked about her dogs (who skyped in on video conference from California) and her election night with David and Courteney Cox Arquette, for which she made an Obama-icing-ed cake.

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[Roxanna]

Jennifer Aniston is an intelligent actress with great potential who has not gotten the opportunity as yet, to show what she is capable of doing. I believe she probably is a better actress than Angelina Jolie but not of the Big Box Office Smashes, which is what Hollywood wants to sell.

[EmmaDryden]

It is Aniston's right to answer or not answer questions about that painful time in her life. Nicole Kidman has spoken quite a few times about the pain and hurt over her divorce from Cruise but some of the commentators here display very short memories. Penelope Cruz, who acted as a catalyst to the Kidman- Cruise separation ,has never spoken about the 'wonderful time of falling in love with Tom'. Given that Cruz showed discretion Kidman had no reason to involve her in the recollections of her breakup. The Jolie-Pitts, though, are so wrapped up in their self-righteous vanity that they don't feel the need for discretion . Cunningly following the path of hollow, vain people with money the world over (see Diana Spencer) the Jolie-Pitts have thrown themselves into the charity-as­-vanity-pr­oject racket, where they can simultaneously disguise and feed their insufferable narcissism. I'm not a Jennifer Aniston fan, far from it. I think she has squandered whatever proof of talent for comedy she once showed,by participating in so many flimsy films and that shows indifference to her own development (which she seems to confuse with the constant pursuit of the perfect body and face). It was and is Aniston's right to tell her side of the story and the Jolie-Pitts cannot be allowed to dictate the terms of Aniston's narrative, nor can they be allowed to think they could do so.

[planetyoho]

Talk about self-righteous, good Lord.
Cut out the judgment and maybe, just maybe, you can be more real.
Like Angelina and Brad.

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[hemnebob]

ewwwww...
sound's like you have some issues yourself.
who gives a poopfilledsandwich what these people do or sleep with?
i mean, besides you and it seems like it has rocked your world too...
good lord, people are people and that means they screw up all the time
just like you and just like me but you sittin in judgement doesn't add up
to anything of value except to you.
personally your little idol jennifer seems to be getting in and out of alot of sheets
and if the pitts want to adopt 50 kids, then i am all for it.
(nobody would care about it if people like you didn't eat it up on the tabloids, right??!!!)
just take some time out to look at yourself before you start criticizing anyone, k?

[threeonions]

The marriage was doomed on its own without any outside interference. On a previous Oprah, many years ago - I think it was when "Friends" was ending, both Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were on the show. Brad made it very clear that he wanted a huge family (dozens may have been mentioned) and was looking forward to getting started on that as soon as possible since he was around forty. Jennifer, on the other hand, said she wanted to have some time for herself and see the world before having a few kids. Her reluctance was obvious.
I think that may have been the main issue in their breakup since, once Brad and Angelina hooked up, the kids have just kept on coming.

[shedances]

Quickly & succinctly ... Oprah's interview was lovely! Jennifer Aniston sounds like a wonderful & caring, compassionate person. Brad Pitt, I suspect, is going through some kind of midlife crisis where he has to get his genes passed along (lol). And Angelina Jolie, well, as long as it benefits her somehow, she'll go after it or just take it ... even if 'it' belongs to someone else.

[dawlishgal]

I remember reading a comment from Jolie to the effect that she could NEVER NEVER, EVER become involved with a married man because when her father did that, it was so painful for her mother , her brother. and herself

Apparently, she should have corrected it to read that she would never mess around with a married man with CHILDREN, and that all others are fair game., in fact her absolute right as a way to collect whatever she is due, having been betrayed by her father.

Of course, she can always make up for whatever she does , at least in the eyes of the public, by going into some overseas orphanage and adopting the cutest child there.

She seems to be a narcissist who uses the children as cosmetic props to defend herself from criticism for being a homewrecker (at least in her own head) , and I feel sorry for those lovely children. They really need a mother who is a grownup, as do all children.

[hemnebob]

shedances...
it is obvious that you don't like angelina, right?
well who cares?
just you care and that emmadryden character.
they don't care what you believe is right or wrong and jennifer
could care less too.
this wouldn't even be news if you and emmadryden didn't read those tabloids
as religious fodder...
get over yourselves...nobody cares which one you liked.
you probably hated gwenth paltrow too...

[Jessegirl]

Remember the old "Jen" on Friends.
She had a cute body, charm and lit up the camera.
Now she's all pre-occupied with her nose, weight and perfection.
An endless boring mission that has left her too hungry and too needy.

[AngryAmish]

Hmmm. . .Maybe Jen should take a page out of AJ's handbook and try desperately to fill that gaping hole with a passel of chil'ren and an eating disorder.

[Jessegirl]

No matter what you might think of Angelina...she's interesting. She's also weird,
strange, unpredictable, fiesty, ballsy....she does her own thing. She seems like she
could get over the "Brad" within a week if they split.
I hate giving out the compliments to Angelina, but she seems to have way more depth
and soul to her than that vacant-eyed, boring Jen.

[dawlishgal]

LOL, that and somebody else's husband.

[shedances]

Jen's a lovely, independent single working woman in her 30s. Nothing wrong with that! Most of my friends, BTW, fall into that category, Jessegirl, and they're very happy with their lives.

And Angie is every-marr­ied-woman-­whose-husb­and-is-han­dsome's nightmare.

[USMC1980]

She is actually far hotter then Angelina Jolie.

[DogTown]

yep!

[Hechizera]

I think she's gone and painted herself into a corner. As long as she keeps attacking Angelina, she makes herself look like a whiny, bitter, vindictive ex who won't let go. But if she lets go, she will fade into instant oblivion because being linked with the Jolie-Pitts is the only thing that is keeping her face in the tabloids.

If she had handled her divorce like Nicole Kidman did when she was dumped by Tom Cruise, holding her head up and refusing to discuss it, she would have been admired as a woman with grace and class who conducted herself well in an extremely stressful situation. But she doesn't have Nicole's grace or class and she proved it with that Vanity Fair interview back in 2005 when she launched the pity party. She had her chance and blew it, and every time she whines some more, she digs herself into a deeper hole. So now everybody can sit back and watch her self-destruct.

[AngryAmish]

1) Stop rewriting history to fit your cruel agenda. Jen has avoided discussing the divorce at length, answering a total of three or four divorce-related questions in the last four years.

2) Kidman does occasionally discuss her split from Cruise, in response to direct questions on the matter.

3) As long as you keep attacking Jen, you make yourself look like a whiny, bitter, vindictive Brangeloonie who won't let go.

[missjabez]

Thanks for telling off those hags, Angry. I couldn't agree with you more.

[Hechizera]

Dang, are you always angry? No wonder you got dumped. Living with you must have been like living with a buzz saw with no "OFF" switch.

Nobody has to "attack" Jen; she does a very good job of sabotaging herself every time she opens her mouth. Just surf the web awhile and read the reactions to that Vogue interview. It comes down to three words: Get Over It.

[trinity29]

thats a good point Hechizera. I am sure the divorce was hard on Nicole and Tom too. Neither spoke openly about it except for just in generic terms without any implication of attacks on each other. i continue to wonder how jen has not figured out yet that anything she says about BP or AJ always gets blown out of proportion and people exploit her pain by dragging up old wounds. i wonder why at all she even chooses to answer in the first place. i would just say no comments or say its not a relevant issue in my life right now so i dont have a need to talk about it. but if she even comments with a generic statement like she thought it was uncool of AJ to say what she said (which is totally jen's right to think that way), people go nuts and she then has to come on opra h to explain it.

[trinity29]

thats a good point. Nicole and Tom kept pretty quiet about their divorce and only mentioned in a generic way without implying too much blame on anyone. I am sure there was enough blame to go around.

what i really fail to understand is why jen wants to air out her grievances publicly and then have her comments blown out of proportion. she has to know that anything she says will be blown out of proportion. if this was a painful time in her life, which i am sure it was, i wonder why she wants to go at AJ's comments as a tit-for-tat strategy when at the end of the day the whole world gets to talk about her private life the minute she even says a word about it. I hope for her sake she finds peace around this issue.

[Hechizera]

She's desperate to keep her face in the tabloids and this is the only way she can do it. For someone as fame-hungry as Aniston is, bad publicity is better than no publicity at all. Once the tabloids stop writing about her, she's history.

[dawlishgal]

Oh come on.....Pitt and Jolie pretended that their affair didn't start until after the filming ended, and now we have Jolie bragging about how the way they "fell in love" (or whatever it was that they fell into) is preserved on film, and that it will be FUN to show the children (show them how their father betrayed his first wife....how wonderfully comfy to plant doubts in the children's minds about the stability and loyalty of their father).

Pitt and Jolie seem to have a chronic disability when it comes to the big picture re raising and nurturing children, and she is a backstabber besides to the woman whose husband she filched and who (apparently) naively believed her former husband's claim that this all started later.

[royalgirl53]

Watch for the releaseof "The Disappearance of Jennifer Aniston's nose". Coming soon! In theaters near you!!

[Topgun2]

Oprah shld hve asked a simple question: “Jen, as an attractive, multi-millionaire, why is it you can’t keep a man?”

[trinity29]

you know i am not a jen fan. but i dont think any of us should judge her for her failed romances. it happens. many people go through their entire lives being in unhappy marriages. being with a man is not the ultimate benchmark of happiness.

[strawberryjulius]

What did Jennifer Aniston do to deserve so much distain? She made some sappy movies. So what? She made some good ones too, the Good Girl, Friends with Money, Office Space. Friends wasn't the most intellectual comedy, but who cares. That doesn't justify anyone calling her names.

[Hechizera]

She's been beating the same d ead horse (her divorce) for the past four years. Get over it, already!

[Takae]

Yay. Video finally works. For zomiya who wanted to know, three quick impressions:

1) she has another nose job (third or fourth job?)
2) she's told a lie at the beginning of the interview (about the cover quote), but good to see she's improved. lol! She used to blink a lot and fussed with her hair whenever she lied. (It's not a bad thing as it's just part of the job.)
3) in spite of its awkward start, the interview went reasonably well, which is good.

Happy now, zomiya? :)

[trinity29]

yes, she did say that she didn't say what was on the cover until opr ah pressed on some more and praised the journalist. then she said that yes she indeed said what was on the cover as a way to honestly answer the question. i think she backtracked on something else too when opr ah pressed on, something to do with how happy she is and how people love negativity. i can't remember, but its there.

[NoMoreFreepers]

Men are simple creatures. Jennifer never had a chance the day Brad met Angelina. Jolie had so much more to offer Brad, she makes Jennifer look one-dimensional.

Aniston peaked during her early days with Friends. She was cute, curvy, fresh, and sexy. As soon as she lost weight and started believing her reviews, she lost all of her appeal. Just my two cents.

[missjabez]

So once Brad met Angelina that made cheating on Jennifer fine and dandy, particularly since Jennifer was no longer starring on "Friends". Your logic is shallow.

[Hechizera]

Oh for heaven's sake. That marriage was on life support before he even met Angelina. They had grown so far apart there was nothing between them any more. Face it, some marriages were not made to last forever. Brad said as much himself the year before he and Aniston broke up. He knew already it wasn't going to work out.

Angelina didn't break up his marriage; he broke up his own marriage. What you can't forgive Angelina for is making him happy where Aniston couldn't.

[trinity29]

actually, brad and jen's relationship at the time was documented as going through troubled times since they were separated for 9 months when brad started work on mr. and mrs. smith. they both grew apart and neither AJ or JA are to be blamed for that. it happens. people grow apart in marriages. i think brad was still thinking through his decision about his relationship and what he found with AJ at the time acted as a catalyst.

[Jessegirl]

I remember when Jen tried to make herself seem more interesting by kissing Courtney Cox
on some show.
It didn't work.
Now, the best thing about her is that she is dating a young guy with a really big d1ck.
Now that is interesting.
I hope for her it lasts.

[BetterAmerica]

I don't think it's Jennifer that keeps bringing it up. The press keeps asking. There is a fascination about this.

Many women dislike Angelina b/c she's viewed as the husband-stealer.

[missjabez]

That she is. It's an established pattern with her. She lured Billy Bob Thornton into her web when he was involved with Laura Dern.

[NaturesNurturer]

True, she is a woman who knows what she wants and doesn't let anything get in her way. But, she did marry both of those men.... she didn't just lure them away from their wives to spit them out after a fling. I think she loved Billy Bob, but she always wanted a family and when Billy didn't seem interested she had to move on.

I'm not saying it is right to go around stealing husbands, but if they were that easy to steal, do you really think their marriages would have lasted anyway?

[trinity29]

actually with jen's choice to respond to the press' question, the issue stays alive. if jen really does not want to talk about it, then she should refuse to answer. the press can bring it up but if jen doesn't say anything, then the press has nothing to write about. jen knows that if she says even a single word the press would blow it out of proportion. so if she wants her pain to be broadcasted across tabloids, then its her choice. but as readers, people are then free to think that jen still wants to put this out there about her ex and his girlfriend, which makes people think that she still has unresolved issues that she is sorting out in tabloids.

lastly, AJ didn't steal anyone. Jen and Brad were documented to be separated for 9 months when he met AJ.

[trinity29]

jen can choose not to talk about it if she wants people to not discuss her private life. by choosing to talk about it, she invites public discourse about her private life.

[duze]

How pathetic she's trying to justify, why it's so over and of no importance to her anymore. It's sad, as the saying goes "Thou does protest too much".

[pinkcrickets]

I think she's entitled to be pissed off about it. A marriage is a big deal for some, and hers went up in flames. There are people all over the country who go through similar things and never "recover" in the way we're automatically expecting for Aniston. The only difference is they don't have it all aired out in the press, and they don't have to hear constantly about their former spouse's perfect life.

[trinity29]

actually, she has a right to whatever way she feels about her marriage. however, to air it out publicly means that the public will talk about that. surely jen should know that by now.

[dawlishgal]

Don't forget, Jolie started this by telling the press not only that they were messing around while he was still married, but that she wants their children to see the filmed version (this, after claiming that they waited until after the official separation to get involved). That would make me furious if I were a cheated-on wife who is in the public eye.