Jennifer Aniston: 'I'm not ashamed' of posing nude at 50
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To celebrate Jennifer Aniston’s 50th birthday, here are five quotes that make us love her.
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Jennifer Aniston wants Ellen DeGeneres – and the world – to know that she loves her body and isn’t afraid to show it.
Appearing on Wednesday’s episode of “Ellen,” the 50-year-old actress discussed her topless new magazine shoot for Harper’s Bazaar, with DeGeneres playfully asking Aniston whether she enjoys being naked.
“I love it,” the “Friends” star replied.
“Well, you take very good care of yourself and you enjoy doing activities, so you’re not ashamed of… when you’re holding your breasts like that and getting a picture taken?” DeGeneres wondered.
“I’m not ashamed of that,” Aniston answered. “No one should be.”
“Do it right now!” DeGeneres jokingly asked her, to which Aniston responded, “Only if you do it with me.”
“I think our bodies are beautiful, and I think celebrating them and being comfortable in them – no matter what age you are – is important,” she told Harpers in her interview. “There shouldn’t be any kind of shame or discomfort around it.”
Plus, Aniston added, “I’m covering my breasticles. There’s nothing offensive out there for anyone unless they think breasts themselves are offensive.”
Naturally, DeGeneres also asked Aniston about a “Friends” reunion, showing her an old photo of the cast together before popping the question.Â
“Why not? Listen, I’ve told you this, I would do it,” Aniston said. “The girls (in the cast) would do it. The boys would do it.”
And even if the whole cast couldn’t make it, “I could do it,” Aniston suggested. “I could do it alone.”Â
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![Jennifer Aniston, who has been our TV and movie friend for 25 years, turns 50 on Feb. 11. Click forward to look back at the actress life and career.]()
1 of 50![For many Americans, their initial glimpse of Aniston was that of a wet runaway bride in the Friends pilot. Her first scene found her character, Rachel Green, reuniting with high school friend Monica Geller (Courteney Cox, left) in Central Perk after ditching her fiance at the altar.]()
2 of 50![Remember what Aniston looked like before the Rachel? In this 1994 promotional photo taken before Season 1 of Friends, she hadn't yet gotten the shag haircut that thousands of women would later copy.]()
3 of 50![By the show's second episode, shot months after the pilot, Aniston had gotten the Rachel, one of the most popular haircuts of the 1990s.]()
4 of 50![The ladies of Friends Courteney Cox, left, Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow pucker up in promotional photos for the show's second season, shot in August 1995.]()
5 of 50![Just before Friends began its second season in September 1995, Aniston and co-star Matthew Perry attended the Emmys together. The show earned several nominations for its freshman season, including supporting-acting nods for Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer.]()
6 of 50![The Rachel was in full effect when she appeared at the VH1 Honors in 1995.]()
7 of 50![In the mid-90s, Aniston was dating fellow actor Tate Donovan, left. The couple swapped appearances on each other's shows. She appeared on his Fox comedy Partners in 1996 and he returned the favor during 3 of Friends before they broke up in 1998.]()
8 of 50![By 1996, Aniston was also in demand as a film actress, playing a supporting role in the Ed Burns film She's the One.]()
9 of 50![In July 1996, she posed for USA TODAY while promoting her romantic comedy Picture Perfect, which was released the following year.]()
10 of 50![In 1998's the Object of My Affection, Aniston starred opposite Paul Rudd as a pregnant woman who falls for her gay best friend.]()
11 of 50![1998's pivotal Season 4 finale of Friends, shook up the Ross-Rachel dynamic once again when he accidentally said I take thee, Rachel at his wedding to Emily (Helen Baxendale, center). In order to to save that relationship, Ross (David Schwimmer) agreed to her demand that he cut Rachel out of his life. That didn't last long.]()
12 of 50![In 1998, Aniston began dating Brad Pitt, who accompanied her to the Emmys the following year, where Friends was nominated for best comedy series. They married on July 29, 2000.]()
13 of 50![In 1999, she was part of the cult comedy Office Space, playing the waitress girlfriend of Ron Livingston's tech drone. Her character, who worked at a TGI Friday's-style restaurant, was constantly harped on by her boss for not wearing enough flair on her uniform.]()
14 of 50![Aniston began 2001 with a People's Choice Award for favorite female television performer.]()
15 of 50![That month, she was also nominated for best supporting TV actress at the Golden Globes.]()
16 of 50![Pitt guest-starred in the November 2001 Thanksgiving episode of Friends, playing a formerly fat classmate of Rachel nursing a grudge against her for how she treated him.]()
17 of 50![Rachel, who viewers learned had gotten pregnant following a hookup with ex Ross in the lead-up to Monica and Chandler's wedding, gave birth to daughter Emma in the two-part Season 8 finale The One Where Rachel has a Baby.]()
18 of 50![Pitt was once again by Aniston's side as she walked the carpet at the 2002 Emmys.]()
19 of 50![That year, she won her first Emmy for lead actress on Friends. She was nominated for playing Rachel five times in all.]()
20 of 50![The following year, Aniston won the Golden Globe for her role on Friends.]()
21 of 50![In 2002's The Good Girl, Aniston played an unhappily married retail clerk who has an affair with a younger co-worker (Jake Gyllenhaal). It was one of several frumpy characters that would bring her critical acclaim.]()
22 of 50![Aniston leaned on Pitt at the 2003 IFP Independent Spirit Awards, where she was up for best female lead for her performance in The Good Girl.]()
23 of 50![May 2004 brought the series finale of Friends, wrapping a 10-year run. Rachel's story arc ended with her passing on a fashion job in Paris to remain in New York with Ross, or as Phoebe once deemed him, her lobster.]()
24 of 50![Pitt and Aniston's relationship still looked to be on solid ground at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival premiere of his swords-and-sandals film Troy, where they showed visible affection for each other.]()
25 of 50![The couple walked what would be their final Emmy red carpet together in September 2004.]()
26 of 50![Aniston and Pitt announced they were separating in January 2005, launching a tabloid frenzy. Within a few months, the world would see his chemistry with his Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-star Angelina Jolie onscreen and those two would take their relationship public.]()
27 of 50![That April, a tabloid-shy Aniston traveled to Courtney Cox's home state of Alabama for the christening of her co-star's daughter Coco.]()
28 of 50![In September 2005, Aniston opened up to Vanity Fair about the end of her marriage to Pitt, including rumors that her refusal to have children played a role. A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children, she told the magazine. That really (ticked) me off. Ive never in my life said I didnt want to have children.]()
29 of 50![In January 2006, Aniston bundled up to promote Friends With Money at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where she got a hug from founder and Sundance Institute President Robert Redford.]()
30 of 50![Aniston's next public romance was with Vince Vaughn, her co-star from the 2006 comedy The Breakup. The couple, seen here at that year's French Open tennis tournament in June, split later that year.]()
31 of 50![She dated singer John Mayer, nine years her junior, for about a year starting in 2008. They couple hit the 2009 Oscars together.]()
32 of 50![In 2008, Aniston starred opposite Owen Wilson as the owners of rambunctious yellow Labrador retriever in the doggie dramedy Marley Me.]()
33 of 50![In 2009's The Bounty Hunter, Aniston played the bail-skipping wife of a bail-enforcement agent (Gerard Butler), who is hired to bring her in.]()
34 of 50![In 2010, she re-teamed with another co-star from Horrible Bosses, Jason Bateman, for The Switch. The movie's title refers to the plot's premise, in which Bateman 's character swaps his semen for that of the sperm donor Aniston's was using to conceive a child.]()
35 of 50![In 2001, Aniston played a dentist with a penchant for sexual harassment in Horrible Bosses. Here, she acts inappropriately with her assistant, played by Charlie Day.]()
36 of 50![In 2010, Aniston reunited with Paul Rudd, her co-star from The Object of My Affection in Wanderlust, in which they played an unemployed couple who ditch the New York rat race in favor of a Georgia hippie commune. The film also co-starred her future second husband, Justin Theroux, right, as one of those hippies.]()
37 of 50![The couple have been keeping the paparazzi busy ever]()
38 of 50![Theroux and Aniston got engaged in October 2012.]()
39 of 50![In 2013, she starred opposite Saturday Night Live alumnus Jason Sudeikis in We're the Millers, posing as a family to smuggle an RV full of marijuana through the U.S./Mexico border.]()
40 of 50![Her next drug-themed project was far darker. In 2014's Cake, Aniston went against type as a woman who becomes dependent on pain medication following a car accident that left her physically disabled and her son dead. She also becomes reliant on her caretaker (Adriana Barraza).]()
41 of 50![In August 2015, Theroux and Aniston tied the knot in a secret ceremony at their home on a Wednesday.]()
42 of 50![While shooting her 2016 rom-com Mother's Day, Aniston took the opportunity to shoot a selfie with director Garry Marshall and his wife Barbara.]()
43 of 50![Aniston presents the In Memorium segment at the 2017 Academy Awards.]()
44 of 50![After coming offstage at the Oscars, Aniston was spotted canoodling in the hall with her husband.]()
45 of 50![Aniston, who often dressed edgier during her relationship with Theroux, sported an asymmetrical leather minidress at the final-season premiere of his HBO drama The Leftovers in April 2017.]()
46 of 50![In February 2018, Aniston and Theroux announced they were separating, a decision they said they reached at the end of the previous year. We are two best friends who have decided to part ways as a couple, but look forward to continuing our cherished friendship, they said in a joint statement.]()
47 of 50![In December 2018, Netflix released the movie Dumplin', in which Aniston played an over-the-top beauty pageant coach who seemed to prefer her pupils over her own daughter.]()
48 of 50![While doing press for Dumplin', Parton, whose music can be heard throughout the film, told Jimmy Fallon that her husband fantasizes about a threesome with Aniston, though she discounted the odds of it ever happening. He can't even get it out to pee, much less for three. How did Aniston respond? She found it flattering and hilarious, telling USA TODAY No one in the world can get away with saying anything like that about their partner on live television, except Dolly. I mean, that is a quote.]()
49 of 50![By her side through all of it: her friend, Courteney Cox.]()
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