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At age 11, one of her paintings was displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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She has been friends with Paul Rudd since they were 21, before either achieved fame.
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She became estranged from her mother after her mother made unflattering statements about her in a tabloid, leading her to exclude her mother from her wedding to Brad Pitt.
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Behind the scenes of Friends, she developed a very close friendship with co-star Matthew Perry.
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She is the godmother of Coco Arquette, daughter of Courteney Cox and David Arquette.
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In high school, she was known as a class clown.
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In 2003, she was simultaneously filming Friends, Bruce Almighty, and Along Came Polly.
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She was a guest at Adam Sandler‘s wedding to Jackie Sandler, as the two have been friends since the early 1990s.
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She has a fear of flying.
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She offered to become Matthew Perry‘s personal trainer to help him lose weight.
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She met her ex-husband Brad Pitt on a blind date.
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Her godfather was the late actor Telly Savalas.
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She once saw an NBC executive at a gas station, asked for advice, and he recommended she see the casting director of Friends.
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She is best friends with Courteney Cox and Amanda Anka.
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Encouraged by best friend Courteney Cox, who holds a brown belt, she started training in karate.
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On October 15, 2019, she created an Instagram account and posted a group photo with her Friends co-stars. So many users tried to follow her that the follow button became temporarily inoperable, and she reached over seven million followers in 24 hours.
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She said that yoga helped her recover from her separation from Brad Pitt.
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She was considered for the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic 1997, but the part went to Kate Winslet.
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Before acting success, she worked as a telemarketer, bike messenger, and waitress.
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Her birth name is legally Jennifer Aniston, not Anastasakis, as her father changed the surname before her birth.
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She sued Celebrity Skin magazine for publishing topless photos taken of her in her backyard.
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She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 22, 2012, at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard, with speeches by Adam Sandler, Malin Akerman, and Kathryn Hahn.
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In 2017, she was the second highest paid actress with $25.5 million.
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She announced separation from Brad Pitt on January 7, 2005, after 4.5 years of marriage, and filed for divorce on March 25, 2005, citing irreconcilable differences.
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Since 2013, she has been offered $10 million per year to be the spokesperson for skin care brand Aveeno.
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After marrying Brad Pitt, she legally changed her name to Jennifer Pitt but continued using Aniston professionally; after divorce, she changed it back.
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In their divorce settlement, she received $29 million and the Beverly Hills mansion, while Pitt received $31 million and control of Plan B production company.
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Both she and Lisa Kudrow auditioned for Saturday Night Live before their success on Friends.
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She was the first guest on Ellen DeGeneres daytime talk show.
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Her father John Aniston is Greek, born in Chania, Crete; her mother has one-quarter Italian possibly Arbรซreshรซ, Scottish, and English ancestry.
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She is good friends with Jason Bateman.
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Her net worth is estimated at $400 million.
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She and Brad Pitt settled with Damiani International Jewelers over unauthorized reproduction of their wedding rings; under settlement, Pitt designed jewelry for Damiani with Aniston modeling.
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She donated $500,000 to an anti-harassment campaign in 2018.
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Her all-time favorite female performance is Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose; she also admires Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, and Julia Roberts.
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She was the first woman to receive the GQ Woman of the Year Award.
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She placed her hand and footprints in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater on July 8, 2011, with speeches by Jason Bateman and Chelsea Handler.
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She invented The Rachel hairstyle in the 1990s, which was widely copied by women.
