The first time I interviewed Jennifer Aniston for Allure was in 2004. Friends was just ending, and as her run as Rachel came to a close, we talked about hair, aging, exercise, and what it was like to be on top in an industry known for tearing people down.
Over the next two decades, I interviewed Aniston several more times, including for the 2022 Allure cover profile where she shared for the first time the painful truth that she’d been undergoing IVF during those years she was under tabloid “bump watch.” In all those conversations, we also discussed, well, hair, aging, exercise, and somehow still being on top of that same industry. When I interviewed Aniston the other day, I decided to mix it up. This time we got to the bad behavior, more than a little politics, and a message she’d like to share with Big Tech.
What’s your typical workout?
Nothing is really typical. I do Pvolve and I love it, I absolutely love it. [Aniston is a spokesperson for the fitness company and is launching a series of workouts inspired by her own training sessions.] I workout minimum four times a week, I would say. If I’m working, sadly, sometimes I can only get in two or three, but as long as I get it in, that’s all that matters. Strength training is the most important thing for women in their 50s. If you lose muscle, your bones get brittle—osteoporosis. We fall down, we break a hip, and that’s a wrap.
You’re almost 55. What’s your relationship with your body these days?
Well, we really love each other.
Bravo. Me and my body aren’t speaking to each other anymore. It’s a cold war.
We’ve got to love our bodies. It’s doing the best it can. It’s been with us since the day we started, so we can’t be too hard on it.
I was working on a movie and there was an older man on set. I’d seen him on a couple of different jobs and he was just working, working, working. I go, ‘You are impressive. I mean, you just never stop.’ And he said, ‘I just don’t let the old man in.’ There was something about that.
