Shut Up, Jen! Why Won't Aniston Stop Dissing Angelina and the Media?

Jen Aniston is the Wendy Whiner of celebrities! Here's what real people have to legitimately complain about these days - UNEMPLOYMENT, losing their homes, losing their savings, watching their hard-earned investments plummet in value.

Here's what Jen Aniston, who's worth at least $100 million, IS complaining about... again - her coverage in the press. The gorgeous, taut , toned and tanned A-Lister, whose been making the TV and magazine press rounds in support of her upcoming Xmas film, Marley & Me, has been a veritable font of new gripes.

First, she dissed her romantic rival, Angelina Jolie in Vogue's December cover story -- "What Angelina Did Was Very Uncool." Then she continued to diss the press in the piece for or not understanding that she's more than just a "tabloid girl" - this "Poor, lonely Jen thing", and now she's dissing Vogue itself.

"I was just surprised that Vogue would go so tabloid", she told Entertainment Weekly, in its extensive new cover feature. " I was bummed, but you almost expect it, "she whined on.

Don't you just feel so sorry for poor, hard- done -by Jen? Imagine, for her Vogue cover, she had to sit for renowned fashion photographer, Craig McDean, in a stunning red Narciso Rodriguez gown, and have thousands of dollars worth of hair and makeup styling (almost as much as Sarah Palin). Then SHE actually told her Vogue interviewer that Angelina was uncool, but she's still a victim. She never expected that the magazine would smartly put her newsstand--friendly remarks on the cover!

Furthermore, Jen then sat on Oprah's couch and kvetched that Vogue's cover age of her was "so not in Vogue."

I really have to congratulate Jen. She's perpetrated the most fantastic press dissathon circle I've ever seen. And it's extraordinary in its boldness. Does Jen realize that by calling Vogue , a tabloid, that she's also insulting Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour?

Speaking from experience, I can tell Jen that no magazine editor-in-chief wants to hear their publication be referred to as a tabloid. Imagine how Anna feels.

In the world of magazine covers, most actresses would rank a Vogue cover as the pinnacle of their press careers. I can tell you that there are a lot more than 12 female Hollywooders a year who are vying for one of those prestigious monthly slots.

Then Jen, I have to ask you - for someone who drones on about the hardship of life in the public eye -- "the way I gauge it is, are there six cars behind me today or not?" she tells Entertainment Weekly, as well as objecting to Team Aniston t-shirts which she derides as catty - WHY do you keep talking at all about Brad and Angelina?

If you really don't want to be in the headlines, why don't you zip your lips about your ex and his baby momma. Every time you utter a word about either of them, it fuels the fire, even if you claim magnanimously on that little tv show, Oprah, that you're now proud of Brad. Have you noticed that Brad never says anything about you publicly?

I suspect Jen, that you are a secret press hound, and wouldn't have a clue how to really live anonymously just like us. So wouldn't it be refreshing if you either a) took the Angelina approach of admitting that living with paparazzi is a small price to pay for the benefits of fame and fortune or b) just laughed and admitted, "I love the limelight."

Otherwise Jen, shut up!

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Comments

[JohnFromColorado]

Angelina Jolie is not above getting involved with men who are partnered with other women. Since she has done that repeatedly, it says much about her moral compass. Her save the world talking points may impress some people. To me, she had choices that had painful consequences to others and she chose to to ignore them. A pretty immoral person in my book.

[Funnelweb]

To me, an immoral person is someone who believes tabloid lies and slanders an innocent person by spreading malicious lies about them. There was no affair, and you are wrong to slander an innocent woman in Angelina who did not do anything wrong.

[betttyrubble]

Hahahaha!!! C'mon!!! You can't be serious?! She's admitted it already! Puuleeeeeeese.

I hear OJ may be up for an appeal, maybe you could defend him, too?

[betttyrubble]

Wow. You're a journalist? You get paid for this?

If you don't like how mindless this coverage is, write about something else!

[JLindsley]

OK, I think the press obsession with AJ is just that obsessive but it makes money - right? So I personally ignore it and silently protest her hypocrisy by not buying tickets to her movies. BUT I need to weigh in here because she started this round of vitriol.

When stating publicly in an interview that it was wonderful that her kids could some day watch the movie where their parents fell in love, she was in fact twisting the knife. What is the point in bringing that up other than gloating? She set her sights on a guy who was committed to someone else (just as she did in Pushing Tin!) and was victorious. What is the point in exploiting it other than to stir up pain. She is not a nice person.

Angie should shut up, not Jen.

[BronYrAur]

"poor" Anna Wintour?

[justjojo]

Can someone please tell me why there are such high emotions amongst the readers/responders here when it comes to this love triangle? Honestly, why does Jennifer Aniston polarize you so? I am really not invested in this at all, but it fascinates me that those here who defend Brad and Angelina do so with such gusto. Can someone explain where all these strong reactions come from?
I honestly just don't care that much about any of them, but am surprised that there is such little compassion for Jennifer's position here. Brad and Angelina may not have consummated their emotional relationship that was present during the filming of Mr & Mrs Smith at a time when Brad was still married to Jennifer. But an emotional affair is an affair nonetheless and doesn't that give rise to any feeling of sympathy for Ms. Aniston? Just on a human level?
I'm just asking. Like I said, I have no allegiance to any of them. I'm just speaking from a human level of compassion...

[eetequilasunrise]

Great article, and a fantastic read.

However....

I'm sure Anna Wintour will recover.

[Treehuggindirtworshiper]

Jen is nothing more than yesterdays TV star. Just an IT GIRL for a few years. She can't even compare to Angelina's talent.

[Adrienne Williams - Huffpost Blogger]

LOL interesting article! Amen... let's see how her movie fairs this season.

[Euranya]

"Does Jen realize that by calling Vogue , [sic] a tabloid, that she's also insulting Vogue editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour?" Let me get this straight: Not only does this column suggest that we feel sorry for Anna Wintour, but that we should also feel sorry for Angelina Jolie because Jennifer Aniston called her "uncool" when Jolie publicly admitted to falling in love with Brad while he was still a married man? Give me a break!

[PhDiva]

I think it's sexist to tell any woman to shut up about her own life. This was her experience. She has a right to talk about it whenever she wants. If you don't like it, don't read it. Why are you attacking her, Bonnie. Jennifer Aniston is harmless. I'm no fan, but I think it's cruel and misogynistic to attack her like this. Hasn't she been humiliated enough? I genuinely think that the women who attack Aniston are trying to justify their own indiscretions with married men.

[Funnelweb]

"I genuinely think that the women who attack Aniston are trying to justify their own indiscretions with married men."
Ok, that is just low. Women attacking Aniston simply are trying to expose her as a manipulative fraud. Nothing less than that.

Angelina Jolie is harmless too, yet people are attacking her. I think its cruel and misgynistic to attack her when she never did anything wrong. Jen has brought on her humiliation herself by crying to the media. What has Angelina done to deserve being attacked? You are defending the wrong person.

[justjojo]

I have the feeling that Laura Dern doesn't find her so harmless...

[PrettyPolly]

"Women attacking Aniston simply are trying to expose her as a manipulative fraud. Nothing less than that."

From a blissfully "outside" position of one who has no dog in this race, you might (or might not) want to learn that such people only expose themselves as "manipulative frauds".

AND overall failures, I might add. :)

[whit4brains]

I totally agree with you.

[chicamorena]

If Aniston saw the photos of Brad and Angie at the premiere of CCOBB in Los Angeles tonight, she must be pitching a fit. Angelina looked drop-dead gorgeous and Brad looked so proud of her. It was a family affair, evidently -- the senior Pitts were there also, and they were standing arm-in-arm with Angie while Brad gave interviews, all three of them looking very relaxed and happy together.

[kloew]

Let me see if I get this straight. Brad ad Angelina are allowed to pose for the W Magazine shoot two months after the Brad and Jen break-up and people call it artsy. They are allowed to sell every moment of their private lives to people magazine and it's called charity. They are allowed to dictate positive news coverage in exchange for access and it's called good business sense. Angelina is allowed to brag about falling in love with Brad Pitt during the filming of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and that's OK. But when Jennifer Aniston, who hasn't opened her mouth or given an interview in 2 1/2 years, calls it uncool, people accuse her of being a whiner and tell her to move on. Am I missing something here? She has kept her mouth shut for years and people still won't leave her alone. She had every right to finally speak up and all she did is call it what it was. All of the people who sling mud at Aniston in these posts, should trade places with her for a moment.

[missmaryherself]

I would happily trade places with her. While I was there I'd make the point that her current fussing and fuming about the attention her private life is getting (as her new movie is coming out) would settle down nicely if she would make it a practice to not comment on her private life--which obviously can be done, since, as one example among many reasonable ones, Naomi Watts has still not publically acknowledged that she's pregnant while appearing to be ready to pop any moment (good for her). Oh--and I'd point her to the column that the New York Times Public Editor wrote that called into question the practices of the NYT reporter who wrote the story he in which he claimed that AJ and BP dictated future the coverage of their family, since the Editor read the actual contract and talked with all of the parties named in the story, and concluded that he had been "relying on anonymous sources to dispute on-the-record sources, a questionable position." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/opinion/07pubed.html?_r=1&sq=Angelina%20Jolie&st=cse&scp=5&pagewanted=all

[kloew]

I doubt anyone cares about Naomi Watts and her private life so it's easy to say she has no comment. When your entire life is being dissected day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year like Jennifer Aniston's life I'm sure it's not quite as easy, "No Comment".

I'm not sure how I feel about the recriminations of the NYTimes piece. I think it's too convenient that AJ and BO get nothing but glowing coverage from CNN and People Mag without giving something in return. Access to baby photos for example.

Also, I'd point out that Jennifer Aniston hasn't commented on her life in more than 2 years and people still hound her day after day. The vogue interview is the first time she has spoken publicly and all she did was say Angelina's comments were uncool. Bragging about falling in love with someone while they are married to and living with someone else is pretty uncool. It seems like it doesn't matter what JA does people are going to attack her.

And unless money and Friend's residual money buys you happiness I think it's safe to say there are lots of people out there who wouldn't want to trade places with her. Who on earth want's to be portrayed as a whiny loser in front of the entire world? I know BP and AJ fans thinks JA gets off on being portrayed this way but I doubt that she does.

[Funnelweb]

The W shoot was busines, to promote a movie.

You believe the tabloids. They have never been able to "dictate positive news coverage" any more than Jen manipulates and dictates positive news coverage.

Angelina didn't 'brag' about falling in love with Brad. She simply mentioned it out of happiness. Why is it 'bragging'? jsut because you don't like her?

Jennifer continually talks and give interviews. Especially when Brad or Angelina have a movie coming out, she has to pose on the beach or hire a new lover, to outdo Brad and Angelina's publicity. Its vindictive and pathetic.

What really kills me is those who whinge about Jen finally being exposed, are the same ones who have been unjustly persecuting and slinging mud at Angelina for the past 4 years. It will stop when the persecution and mud-slinging against Angelina stops. Perhaps the mud-slingers should trade places with Angelina for a moment. Be persecuted for 4 years, for something that wasn't your fault.

[kloew]

You're information is incorrect. Jen does not continually give interviews. The Vogue interview was the first major interview since the Break-up came out in 2006. You might have her confused for Brad and Angelina who give interviews every five seconds.

Yes the W photo shoot was publicity for a movie but posing as a big happy family with lots of kids was Brad's idea. And since they didn't have any kids in the movie they were promoting it really seemed like a big f-U to a woman he had separated from just 6 weeks earlier. Brad even owns the rights to the photo spread. That seems pretty vindictive if you ask me.

And to say Angelina simply mentioned something out of happiness is naive. She knows how the media works. I know writing this is a waste of time because all of you Brad and Angelina fans are the same. Nothing will ever tarnish the glowing image you have of them. I'm sure if there was a video tape of Brad sleeping with Angelina while he was still married to Jen you'd find a way to blame Jen for it.

I've read plenty of posts over the years from Angelina fans who basically say it was OK for Brad to cheat because Angie is hot and gives money to charity. It's ridiculous just how far you people will go to justify these two and their behavior. It's pretty sickening actually.

[PhDiva]

Angelina was bragging. She's trying to rewrite the history of her relationship with Brad so she doesn't look like a homewrecker. She has the right to try. Aniston has the write to stop her.

[Vixter]

I would trade places with her in a heartbeat. She is still holding on to a relationship that has left the building. There are now 6 children to consider - & both Brad & Angelina look so proud of their family (and each other). What does the mediawhore want Brad to do? I don't think that he wants to leave his family so that whiner will be happy - as if that would make her happy.

Boo-hoo for Jen-the-so-not-friend. I am sorry that she only makes 6 figures for a movie, travels the world, lives in fully paid for houses (if she has any business sense at all), - all that and looks beautiful also. She needs to take a look at the Real World where folks are loosing their jobs, homes, etc. - and realize that other women have lost their man. Real women get on with their lives, don't live in the past and expect their happiness to come from the man who DUMPED her.

BTW, I bet that is the last time she is on the cover of Vogue.

[Bostongirl1]

http://www.usmagazine.com/photos/jen-vs-angies-mag-covers

http://www.usmagazine.com/photos/jen-vs-angie?slideshow_id=583&o=1

comparisons between the two

[Alvin4NY]

For whatever Angie and Brad think their good works might contain, their contribution to the further corruption of the American Media (print and or otherwise..) and the "bought and paid for" dis-information that is fed to the American people, is part of the downfall of this country. A controlled press, with stories paid for, is not helping anyone I know over the long haul. Angie and Brad have just figured out a way to help themselves to more.....and to be as controlling of the media as an expert politician.

[Funnelweb]

The NYT article was exposed as a hoax. Don't believe everything you read. Angelina and Brad "control" the media no more than any other celebrity.

[Alvin4NY]

The boundaries between "Journalist" and "Celebrity" or "Journalist and "Politician" are increasingly compromised. All of the media want to be considered a "friend" to their subject, because they think it means "access" is easier. There is no such thing as unbiased reporting anymore. All of it has an angle.

[NTBoss]

I have always been a believer of how Brad and Angelina have been living...just like all of us, they're not perfect. They've made mistakes and have matured and moved on to be better people. They are trying to be better parents by being hands-on with the kids and better citizens with their adoptions, foundation and projects...these people have a different lifestyle and have to endure things our kids don't (because they're celebrities) BUT still they keep it together.
Jennifer Aniston on the other hand has to exhaust her "woman scorned" role...she is still hurting so let's just give her enough room to let some steam out and wish her the best...
They all deserve happiness...