1. Aniston was calved connected February 11, 1969 successful Sherman Oaks, Calif., to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her godfather is besides actor, Telly Savalas, 1 of her father's champion friends. Her family's archetypal past sanction was Anastassakis, but it was changed aft they immigrated to the United States from Greece.

2. In a 2015 interrogation with The Hollywood Reporter, Aniston revealed her struggles with dyslexia, which she was diagnosed with successful her aboriginal 20s aft struggling successful school. "I thought I wasn't smart. I conscionable couldn't clasp anything," she said.

3. Aniston opened up astir her acquisition being bullied passim mediate schoolhouse successful an intimate chat with person Molly McNearney successful 2018. 

"I was 1 of those kids who got benignant of bullied, and I don't cognize why," Aniston said successful her InStyle profile. "I was 1 of the kids who the others would determine to marque amusive of. It was an unusual play of clip during fifth, sixth, seventh grades. I was a small connected the chubby side, truthful I was conscionable that kid."

4. Long earlier she was 1 of the astir sought-after actors successful Hollywood, Aniston erstwhile had a overmuch little glamorous occupation arsenic a kid. "I made my allowance arsenic a kid cleaning toilets. I'm really beauteous bully astatine it," Aniston told Parade in 2009. "I struggled for a while, but I was blessed with my beingness whether I was making this magnitude of money, oregon that magnitude of money. I ever enjoyed wherever I was working."

And earlier landing the relation that would marque her a household name, Aniston worked arsenic a waitress.

"I dropped much than 1 Alpine burger successful customers' laps, and you conscionable bash not privation each of that Swiss food and mushrooms successful your pants," she told Marie Claire. "I wasn't a bully waitress, but I was told that I was precise bully and charming, truthful radical liked maine anyway."

5. While attending the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (aka the iconic schoolhouse from Fame), Aniston played volleyball and hoops arsenic she studied successful the play department. 

6. She was besides friends with Chaz Bono, Cher's son, arsenic they were classmates astatine the prestigious school. "Every time a radical of america would spell to Chaz's location aft school," Aniston revealed during a 2011 interrogation with Allure. 

7. While Aniston is known for her laidback California style, she really went done a goth signifier successful precocious school. "High schoolhouse was tragic," she told People. "Just not well-informed. You know, you're experimenting. It was the '80s and I looked similar a goth nightmare. I wasn't going for astir beautiful. It was, 'How tin I beryllium the astir rebelliously unattractive?'"

8. Aniston's archetypal acting relation was an uncredited 1 successful the 1988 movie Mac and Me, successful which she played a dancer astatine McDonald's. And before Friends, Aniston took implicit the relation of Ferris Bueller's small sister Jeanine from Jennifer Grey successful the short-lived TV bid based connected the iconic movie. She besides memorably starred successful the campy fearfulness movie Leprechaun in 1993.

9. Aniston has been precise unfastened astir the troubled narration she had with her mother, Nancy Dow, ever since she was a kid (and besides watched the dissolution of her parents' marriage, which ended successful 1980).

"She was critical. She was precise captious of me," Aniston told The Hollywood Reporter back successful 2015. "Because she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning. I wasn't. I ne'er was. I honestly inactive don't deliberation of myself successful that benignant of light, which is fine. She was besides precise unforgiving. She would clasp grudges that I conscionable recovered truthful petty."

And the prima admitted to WHO that therapy helped her recognize and judge her mother's behavior, "It takes a batch of therapy, but you bash perfectly get implicit it. That was her projection. It had thing to bash with me." 

Before Dow's decease successful 2016, the parent and girl spent galore years estranged, with Dow giving a televised interrogation criticizing Aniston and adjacent penning a tell-all successful 1999, called From Mother and Daughter to Friends. (Aniston infamously did not invitation her to her wedding to Brad Pitt the pursuing year.)

In a 2018 interrogation with Elle, Aniston reflected connected their relationship, offering immoderate position into her mom's behavior. 

"She was missing what was [actually] important," she said. "I deliberation she was conscionable holding connected and doing the champion she could, struggling financially and dealing with a hubby who was nary longer there. Being a azygous ma successful the '80s I'm definite was beauteous crappy." 

10. The different actresses Aniston was up against for the relation of Rachel Green connected Friends, which ran connected NBC from 1994-2004 and became 1 of the astir palmy TVs of all-time? Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt prima Jane Krakowski, Tea Leoni, Tiffani Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkeley and Courtney Cox. Yes, that's right. Monica was astir Rachel!

"We primitively offered Rachel to Courteney Cox," the show's co-creator Marta Kauffman erstwhile revealed, "but she said she wanted to bash Monica, not Rachel."

11. Cox, of course, went connected to to play Monica, Rachel's BFF, and yet became Aniston's real-life champion friend. Aniston adjacent is the godmother to Cox's daughter, Coco. On set, the duo and Lisa Kudrow ate luncheon unneurotic each time for 10 years, with Cox saying during a 2016 NBC special, "And we ate the aforesaid food: a Jennifer salad." As for what's successful it, Cox spilled successful 2010, "We ever had the aforesaid thing: a Cobb salad. But it wasn't truly a Cobb salad. It was a Cobb crockery that Jennifer doctored up with turkey bacon and garbanzo beans and I don't cognize what."

12. Aniston's way to waiting for the close role—which of people was Friends—included her turning down different offers, including a spot on Saturday Night Live. On an quality on The Howard Stern Show in precocious 2019, Aniston admitted she didn't deliberation she'd "like the situation there" and saw herself arsenic a much superior histrion than comedic one. Of course, fans of the unrecorded sketch amusement did yet get to spot Aniston connected their screens erstwhile she hosted the amusement successful 1999 and 2004 and even made a cameo successful 2016.

13. Ah, "The Rachel," the haircut that sent the federation into a frenzy, with women everyplace moving to their section salon with photos of Aniston, demanding the choppy look. But it turns out, the hairsbreadth icon recovered it "cringe-y," and called it "the ugliest haircut I've ever seen" successful an interrogation with Glamour. Even better? Her longtime hairstylist and BFF Chris McMillan admitted helium was precocious erstwhile helium archetypal gave Aniston the infamous cut.

14. Though she and her co-stars became the highest paid TV stars successful past aft netting $1 cardinal per occurrence each successful seasons 9 and 10, Aniston really considered not returning for Friends' last season, admitting successful a 2004 interrogation that she had hesitations. (Obviously, we each cognize she returned and (spoiler alert!) Rachel didn't get connected the plane!)

"I had a mates issues that I was dealing with," Aniston, who earned an Emmy and a Golden Globe during the show's run, explained. "I wanted it to extremity erstwhile radical inactive loved america and we were connected a high. And past I was besides feeling like, 'How overmuch much of Rachel bash I person successful me?'"

Just enough, thankfully.

15. MIA from the bid finale taping was Aniston's then-husband (and one-time impermanent star) Brad Pitt, who told producers helium wanted to ticker it erstwhile it aired truthful helium could beryllium surprised. And 1 of the series' 3 wrapper parties was held astatine the couple's home, wherever the lawsuit was a ceremonial meal that featured vintage bottles of Haut-Brion vino that shaper Kevin S. Bright had bought mode backmost during play one.

16. Mid-way done Friends' run, Aniston was formed successful the cult deed comedy Office Space, arsenic the workplace wanted a large sanction successful the movie. Her relation was beefed up, acknowledgment to the summation of the infamous "flair" storyline. And in EW's oral history, the prima admitted to nursing 2 crushes (one old, 1 new) during filming. She had gone to precocious schoolhouse with shaper David Herman, saying, "I was benignant of madly successful emotion with him and besides terrified of him." And the film's writer and manager Mike Judge played her character's boss, with Aniston admitting, "I loved acting with Mike successful the edifice scenes. I mightiness adjacent person had a crush connected him."

17. While Aniston kept her surname professionally, she really legally changed her past sanction to Pitt aft her their 2000 wedding. She asked to person her erstwhile sanction restored erstwhile she filed for divorcement successful 2005, a divided that would stone the personage scenery forever, acknowledgment to the emotion triangle betwixt Aniston, Pitt and Angelina Jolie, his Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star and eventual wife.

18. At the tallness of the Jennifer-Brad-Angelina play successful 2005, the famous Los Angeles boutique Kitson was selling "Team Aniston" and "Team Jolie" t-shirts truthful fans could amusement their allegiance/moral enactment for a specified $30. According to Aniston's infamous "Unsinkable" Vanity Fair profile, income for Aniston's garment were outselling Jolie's 25-to-1.  

19. Aniston has sued the paparazzi respective times for penetration of privacy. In 2000, she sued 2 magazines for publishing topless photos of her that were taken successful her ain backyard. And successful 2006, she settled a suit with a paparazzo after she had mailed retired copies of topless photos of the prima to respective personage mag editors.

In her ineligible documents, Aniston claimed she suffered "shame, mortification, wounded feelings, affectional distress, anger, embarrassment, humiliation, feeling of being violated and wounded to her privateness and bid of mind," arsenic the photos were erstwhile again taken successful the privateness of her ain home.

20. For notorious Hollywood playboy John Mayer, Aniston was the 1 that got away. At slightest that's what helium was saying successful 2010 aft their romance came to an end. 

"I've ne'er truly gotten implicit it," helium told Rolling Stone of their split. "It was 1 of the worst times of my life...I'll ever beryllium atrocious that it didn't last. In immoderate ways I privation I could beryllium with her."

21. Due to her high-profile emotion life, Aniston has been a tabloid fixture (arguably THE tabloid figure) for decades, perpetually the taxable of headlines astir her heartbreaks, hook-ups, the never-ending emotion triangle with Pitt and Jolie and rumors she's pregnant each different week.

And successful 2016, Aniston yet had enough, penning a almighty op-ed for The Huffington Post titled "For the Record," successful which she called retired the objectification of herself and women successful wide by the media.

"For the record, I americium not pregnant. What I americium is fed up," she wrote. "I'm fed up with the sport-like scrutiny and assemblage shaming that occurs regular nether the guise of 'journalism,' the 'First Amendment' and 'celebrity news.'"

She besides called retired the endless (and sometimes dangerous) paparazzi attraction and the media's tendency to specify her communicative arsenic "incomplete, unsuccessful oregon unhappy" due to the fact that she's yet to person children.

She wrote, "We don't request to beryllium joined oregon mothers to beryllium complete. We get to find our ain 'happily ever after' for ourselves." Amen!

22. She's been each astir the world, but Aniston's favourite abrogation spot is Cabo San Lucas. And she's often  brought her celebrated friends, similar Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, Courteney Cox, Jason Bateman and his woman Amanda Anka. Her go-to spot, should you privation to person amusive successful the prima Aniston-style, is the One & Only Palmilla.

23. Good news: Mexican nutrient does a assemblage good…at slightest judging by Aniston, who has been vocal successful the past astir her emotion for chips, guac and tacos. "I ever emotion a bully Mexican dish, similar fluffy crispy tortilla chips with guac," she told Harper's Bazaar.

And her favourite portion is, naturally, a margarita, telling Yaho! Beauty her cleanable 1 is conscionable "pure tequila, lime juice, a squinch of Cointreau. It's delicious."

24. Of course, workout besides does a assemblage good, with Aniston ever being honorable astir however hard she works to support her celebrated figure.

"Usually, my emotion is running. I similar to bash a bully trifecta, wherever I bash the motorcycle for 15 minutes, elliptical for 15, and past I tally for 15. On the elliptical I benignant of bash sprints for 90 seconds, instrumentality it backmost to a jog for 30 seconds, and bash intervals for the past minutes. Then I premix a time of yoga," she told Yahoo!. "Lately, due to the fact that of my injury, I've lone been capable to bash Barre method. Boy, I forgot however overmuch that truly hurts and kicks your butt."

24. Last year, Aniston fell successful emotion with a caller workout: boxing, which happens to treble arsenic a therapy session. "Boxing is simply a large mode to get aggression out. You get a intelligence merchandise of each this crap you're taking into your ears and eyes each time and person small phantasy moments imagining who you're really punching," she told InStyle. "I'm conscionable grateful it's not really the person, adjacent though there's 1 person. You cognize what I mean. It's each good."

26: Given her uncommon attainable-yet-aspirational lifestyle, Aniston has go a spokesperson for Aveeno, Smartwater and Eyelove, to sanction conscionable a few, with Forbes estimating she "makes implicit $10 cardinal a twelvemonth done her endorsements."

27: Speaking of Smartwater, Aniston's proposal to execute her enviable glow is rather simple: "I tin ne'er accent capable to my friends that they indispensable bash arsenic I do…hydrate, hydrate, hydrate! Drink tons of water, get capable sleep, exercise, and devour a cleanable steadfast diet, whenever possible," she told The Cut. 

28. Aniston is really a large instrumentality of world TV. "I sadly americium precise overmuch funny successful the Kardashian-Jenner thing," she admitted to People successful 2015. "That's a blameworthy pleasance for sure."

29. Another blameworthy pleasure? The Bachelor franchise, with Aniston adjacent appearing connected Jimmy Kimmel Live connected 2016 to uncover her apical 4 picks successful Nick Viall's season. (Future Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay was 1 of her favorites, truthful she intelligibly has bully instincts.)

"I'm not gonna lie," the histrion told Access Hollywood of her emotion for the show. "It's junk food. It's large junk food. It's a bid wreck! Have you seen them? You can't consciousness atrocious for them. They've done that to themselves, conscionable to entertain us."

30. Sorry, friends, but portion she's a large instrumentality of immoderate of the Internet's favourite shows, Aniston has vowed to NEVER articulation societal media. 

"For me, it's self-preservation. There's capable written astir maine retired determination and capable that's not true," she said connected The Thrive Global podcast. "There's 1 schoolhouse of thought, which is, ‘Why don't you beryllium connected societal media and truly amusement who you truly are?' And I don't request to…This is the 1 spot I person that's truly protected and is excavation and is what my beingness is without a camera rolling oregon paparazzi oregon media exposure."

31. But that doesn't mean she's unplugged, arsenic she admitted to occasionally googling someone's Instagram, and proudly stated she ever keeps her inbox astatine zero. "You'll ne'er spot 2,895,000 emails," Aniston said successful the episode. "When I spell to wide retired the container successful the morning, I reply my emails and springiness everybody the answers they request and that's it."

32. While detailing her archetypal gathering with Dolly Parton, whom she worked with on her Netflix movie Dumplin', Aniston revealed conscionable however large of a instrumentality she was erstwhile she was introduced to the icon 8 years ago. 

"I went up and met her that nighttime origin I loved her since I was little. You know, sang into a hairbrush singing Dolly Parton," she told Jimmy Kimmel. "I told her that I named my canine aft her."

33. In summation to Dolly, her adopted achromatic shepherd named aft Parton, Aniston besides had different beloved canine named Norman, who died successful 2011 astatine the property of 15, with the histrion getting a tattoo, her first, of his sanction connected her close foot.

34. She erstwhile told James Lipton connected Inside the Actor's Studio that "Norman" was her favourite word. (Cue the tears!)

35. Since then, Aniston (along with her present ex-husband Justin Theroux) has adopted a pitbull named Sophie and a terrier, Clyde.

36. Despite not adjacent having a existent amusement connected the aerial successful 2018, Aniston inactive made the database of highest-paid TV stars successful 2018, according to Variety. Aniston and her co-star Reese Witherspoon are each acceptable to marque $1.1 cardinal per occurrence for their upcoming untitled Apple+ dramedy astir greeting speech amusement hosts. (Plus, they volition gain further fees arsenic they are some enforcement producers.)

37. We each cognize that age-old question celebs get asked: Who is their personage crush? Well, it turns retired Aniston is the reply for rather a fewer men successful Hollywood. Riverdale's 2 antheral leads KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse copped to nursing crushes connected her. 

Apa admitted to Cosmopolitan that helium has a crush connected Aniston adjacent though helium had ne'er seen an occurrence of Friends, portion Sprouse reminisced connected moving with her connected the sitcom (as helium and duplicate member Dylan played the quality Ross' son, Ben).

"I had a really, truly hard clip moving with [Jennifer] due to the fact that I was truthful successful emotion with her," helium told the New York Post. "I was infatuated. I was speechless. I'd get each bubbly and hide my lines and wholly blank. It was truthful difficult."

38. But those young Hollywood hunks request to get successful line, arsenic different celebrated men revealed their feelings for Aniston agelong earlier them.

Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred other Aniston successful The Good Girl, got a small flustered portion talking astir his crush connected the star. "I volition say, person had, had a crush connected her for years and moving with her was not easy, you know," helium told People. "She was, it was...I was, umm...yeah, that's each I'm going to say. It was, err, it was lovely. You know, it wasn't hard."

39. And Ashton Kutcher besides revealed helium erstwhile made a stake successful precocious school, erstwhile helium was 17 and the prima was his screen-saver, that helium would spell connected a day with her. And helium ended up getting the chance, backmost erstwhile she was inactive joined to Pitt.

"Five years aboriginal I really met her and I asked Brad Pitt's support to inquire his woman retired connected a date. He was truthful chill and said, 'You spell for it,' truthful I asked her and she turned maine down," Kutcher said on The Graham Norton Show.

40. After leaving Plan B, the accumulation institution she founded with Pitt successful 2006, Aniston and her champion friend Kristin Hahn founded Echo Films in 2008. The company, which has a woody with Universal Pictures, has produced immoderate of Aniston's movies, including The Switch, Cake and Dumplin'. 

41. In summation to her Apple drama with Witherspoon, Aniston is acceptable to enforcement nutrient and prima successful respective high-profile projects, including The Fixer (about real-life Miss USA-turned-sports manager Denise White), Tig Notaro's Netflix bid (in which she is playing the archetypal pistillate POTUS) and a drama with Jason Bateman. 

42. After gathering erstwhile NBC staged a Friends-E.R. crossover, Aniston has remained friends with George Clooney for decades (even aft her divided from Pitt, Clooney's person and predominant collaborator). She adjacent visited him and his family, including woman Amal Clooney and their twins, successful Italy implicit the summer. "It's astonishing to spot him with children," Aniston told Ellen DeGeneres in December 2018. "That's what we talked about, that thing tin happen."

43. Aniston has infamously told the communicative of however she was told to suffer 30 pounds by her agents earlier auditioning for Friends. "My cause said, 'Actually, I've been meaning to speech to you astir that,'" she recalled successful a 1996 Rolling Stone cover story. "My cause gave it to maine straight. Nicest happening helium ever did...the disgusting happening of Hollywood—I wasn't getting tons of jobs 'cause I was excessively heavy."

She dropped the value with Nutri/System, adjacent going connected The Howard Stern Show to present a  testimonial. "It was astonishing to spot this happening emerge," she said of assemblage astatine the time. "I ne'er knew I had this assemblage successful me."

44. Cut to implicit 20 years aboriginal and Aniston has been vocal astir the unrealistic expectations Hollywood places connected women. 

"It's clip to conscionable halt reasoning quality is successful the signifier of a size 4 and the close butt size and the close waist size and the close measurements," she told InStyle successful 2018. "It's conscionable old. We've done it. We've been there. Let's determination on."

45. Aniston has besides voiced her acquisition with harassment successful the workplace pursuing the #MeToo movement. "I've decidedly had immoderate sloppy moves made connected maine by different actors, and I handled it by walking away," she said successful the InStyle profile. "I've ne'er had anyone successful a presumption of powerfulness marque maine consciousness uncomfortable and leverage that implicit me. In my idiosyncratic acquisition I've been treated worse verbally and energetically by immoderate women successful this industry." 

46. One fearfulness Aniston has yet to flooded successful her beingness is 1 that volition astir apt astonishment you, fixed her jet-setting lifestyle: her fearfulness of flying. 

"It started successful my 20s. It was a weird, scary flight. Afterward I began noticing the stories connected the quality astir level crashes, and I became all-consumed with the thought of dying connected an airplane," she revealed. "It was truthful retired of power successful my brain. So, yeah, that's thing I'd similar to get escaped of. It's truthful irrational."

47. When it comes to her idiosyncratic person radical IRL, Aniston is the planner, according to BFF Kristin Hahn, who called her the "social glue" and admitted to Elle, "When she's not successful town, we astir don't cognize what to bash with ourselves."

48. While Aniston has been divorced twice, she told Elle she doesn't presumption them arsenic failures. "My marriages, they've been precise successful, successful [my] idiosyncratic opinion. And erstwhile they came to an end, it was a prime that was made due to the fact that we chose to beryllium happy, and sometimes happiness didn't beryllium wrong that statement anymore."

49. Now 52, Aniston is inactive uncertain erstwhile it comes to perchance becoming a mother, admitting to Elle she finds it "quite honestly, benignant of frightening." She explained, "Some radical are conscionable built to beryllium wives and person babies. I don't cognize however people that comes to me. Who knows what the aboriginal holds successful presumption of a kid and a partnership—how that kid comes in...or doesn't? And present with subject and miracles, we tin bash things astatine antithetic times than we utilized to beryllium capable to."

50. And finally, here's the latest she's said astir a imaginable Friends revival, due to the fact that we cognize you're inactive wondering: 

"Before that amusement ended, radical were asking if we were coming back. Courteney [Cox] and Lisa [Kudrow] and I speech astir it. I fantasize astir it. It truly was the top occupation I ever had," she told InStyle. "I don't cognize what it would look similar today, but you ne'er know. So galore shows are being successfully rebooted. I cognize Matt LeBlanc doesn't privation to beryllium asked that question anymore. But possibly we could speech him into it. If we springiness it immoderate time, Lisa, Courteney and I could reboot The Golden Girls and walk our past years unneurotic connected wicker furniture."