Her beloved dogs, yoga, philanthropy, taking good care of herself, the beach, sunny vacations, lavishing her tight circle of friends with generosity and affection. And acting, of course, the star of screens big and small having replenished her love of the game with her juicy, SAG Award-winning role on The Morning Show.
She knows it’s a good life, one that shouldn’t be taken for granted—or wasted on negativity.
So, among the things Aniston is just not that into? Bad blood, for one.
“I’m a forgiving person. I think it’s extremely important to forgive,” she explained to Harper’s Bazaar in 2014. “Otherwise it just builds up like toxic waste. There’s nothing worse than holding a grudge. Listen, people can do unforgivable things, but you have to let it go and say, ‘Look, we’re all human beings. We make mistakes.’ To hold any kind of resentment is like taking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.”
The actress added, “I’d rather just focus on people and things that are here, happening, and what’s yet to come. My friends, my family, wonderful people I work with. We know what the real is.”
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The 52-year-old wasn’t always so centered, having admitted that she’s spent precious moments fuming, ruing and otherwise paying too much attention to a public narrative that often had her unwittingly on the receiving end of some romantic slight or another.
Which, here and there, she was. But isn’t everybody?
“How many times can I be out there in the world, enjoying my life, and yet the narrative is ‘Poor, Sorry, Sad in Love Jen’ … whatever the stupid headline is,” Aniston noted. And when told there had recently been a more upbeat headline about her prospects for happiness, she deadpanned, “Oh, thank God. Am I finally all right?”
Of course, all of that stemmed from the dramatic ending of her not-quite-five-year marriage to Brad Pitt. While she’d dated others since and was engaged to Justin Theroux when she gave that interview, Aniston’s world had been shockingly knocked off its axis back in 2005—and to many, that’s how it remained years later, despite her having long been back on track.
