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| | Jennifer Aniston was just slammed by her ex-boyfriend's widow, ouch | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Remember about a month ago, when Angelina Jolie had a really terrible week? The Sony Hack blew up and everyone found out that Scott Rudin called her a minimally talented spoiled brat. Angelina got chicken pox, and Unbroken was majorly snubbed at the Golden Globes? Angelina weathered that storm because this too shall pass. And now it?s time to pass on that message to Jennifer Aniston, because she?s having a bad week. She lost the Golden Globe for Best Actress. Her Globes dress was boring. Her Cake premiere dress was awful. And today, she?s going to have the sinking realization that she spent easily more than a million dollars trying to score an Oscar nomination and she failed miserably.
And now this: remember how Jennifer Aniston mentioned her first great love in her NYT interview? The guy passed away in 2007, and some people were uncomfortable with the way Aniston spoke about a dead man who had completely moved on and married someone else in the years that followed their breakup. They had two children together, and his wife was with him until the bitter end. And now his widow wrote a Facebook post slamming Aniston. The guy?s name was Daniel McDonald and his widow is Mujah Maraini-Melehi. Here?s what she wrote:
In light of what?s been happening around the world, this may seem like a very trivial and superficial post. This past 24 hours have been very difficult for me?.. I am very upset that the media is exploiting Daniel?s memory in connection to Jennifer Aniston. What is precious shines in our hearts and should not be splayed for everyone?s consumption in the media this way.
Why now? I wonder. After decades of stardom, she is media savvy enough to know that any casual comment she makes becomes front page tabloid news. Jennifer Aniston is Jennifer Aniston, and that means that anything that she says about her love life to any journalist, even someone as reputable as New York Times? Frank Bruni, will be later dissected and exploited.
My heart aches to see our tragedy of losing Daniel to serve the media?s hunger for sensationalism. I remember how journalists often called our home to ask Daniel for information about Jennifer, and being the gentleman that he was, he would always decline to comment on anything at all. I imagine he would be appalled to be caught up in this media circus, especially after he had found Love and built a family of his own.
His love is part of our fabric — part of me , part of Fosco, part of Ondina. Please respect our love and especially our Loss. The children lost their father. I lost my partner. I am sorry that Jennifer did not realize the treasure that was Daniel when she had the chance, long before he and I met and long before he died. It pains me to read the headlines that allude to her losing him tragically when she was not present during his long and difficult illness.
That said perhaps Daniel?s gift was to teach her how to love and appreciate Justin Theroux. I know how much Daniel cared about her, and how protective he was of her. That was part of what I loved about him. I find it very hard to believe that she may not have married Brad Pitt had Daniel and I not married months before as some unnamed ?sources? declared to the Daily mail on line. After Daniel died, I reached out to her to give her back all the photographs from the time they were together. I never got an answer back from her.
Please ignore the gossip and remember what is essential; the music in Daniel?s heart lingers on in us, in his dear friends, his mother Pat, his siblings who miss him every day, his cousins, his nieces and nephews, his colleagues, his fans, his children, and me.
[From Facebook via The Daily Mail]
The Daily Mail has a few more details about Jennifer and Daniel?s relationship ? it was when Jennifer was in her early 20s and living in NYC, before she moved to LA to do Friends. Daniel stayed in NYC and Jennifer quickly moved on with Tate Donovan. After Tate, she dated other dudes and then she met and married Brad Pitt. After Brad, there was Vince Vaughn, that weird British model guy (he always seemed like a rent-a-date), John Mayer, John Mayer again, random non-celebrities, and then Justin Theroux. And out of all of those guys, Jennifer chose to talk about the dead guy who left a widow and two children? So? yeah. Aniston is having a terrible day. She?s going to have to smoke so much pot to relax today.
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| | Jennifer Aniston in Giambattista Valli at the LA 'Cake' premiere: too cutesy or fine' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Let the Cake wash over you. Just lay back and accept it. Here are some photos of Jennifer Aniston and Chris Messina at last night?s LA premiere of CAKE. Jennifer wore a Giambattista Valli dress (it looks like a two-piece, but I guess it?s a dress), Louboutins and Jennifer Meyer jewelry. Jennifer?s been doing a lot of ponytails and updos for her Oscar campaign, hasn?t she? I don?t mind it. I get tired of the hair-in-the-face look, so high-fashion ponytails are a welcome reprieve. As for her Valli look? I?m not a fan. It?s way too cutesy. But it?s nice that Cake is finally getting a real premiere, I guess.
As you can imagine, Jennifer is probably a ball of nerves right now, as we speak. The Oscar nominations come out this morning ? the first round will start at 8:30, then all of the big awards will be announced at 8:38 am (EST). We?ll have the nominations up shortly after that, so no threadjacking, mmkay? Jennifer has spent a lot of money ? probably her own? ? to get an Oscar nomination and many believe it?s going to happen for her. But at last night?s premiere, she was playing coy. She told E! News that she wouldn?t watch the announcements. She said: ?I’ll be in bed. I’ll be in bed with my beloved and my dogs dreaming wild little dreams. I’m not going to torture myself. My phone rang yesterday at five o’clock in the morning and I was like, ?What’s happening? Who’s dead or b, is today Thursday?’” Do you believe her? After shelling out that much money to get a nomination, don?t you think she?ll be up, doing a wake & bake and watching?
If you?re online at 8:30, you can see the live stream of the Oscar nominations here.
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| | Jennifer Aniston Stunning at 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Here is Jennifer Lopez rocking the red carpet at 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills.
She did not end up an award-winner during Sunday night’s Golden Globe Awards, but that didn’t keep the actress from feeling “like a kid” at the ceremony.
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| | Jennifer Aniston in black Saint Laurent at the Globes: boring or cute? | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I didn?t think Jennifer Aniston looked bad at all at the Golden Globes. I mean, of course she wore a black dress. She loves wearing black for major red carpets, and to give her some credit, this Yves Saint Laurent (or I guess we?re calling it Saint Laurent now?) gown was a lot better than the usual black dresses she chooses. I remember when she wore a black Lanvin to the Oscars many years ago, and it was like she was in widow?s garb. This black Saint Laurent is thankfully not widow-chic. It?s just a pretty dress. Of course, I have thoughts about why Jennifer chose Saint Laurent out of all of her possible designer options, but let?s save that for another day. My one big criticism: the thigh slit was too high. She tried to walk or move, it was like we were an inch of fabric away from being flashed.
I also have to give it to Aniston: I liked her styling. A lot! I like that she didn?t wear her hair down and in her face. The updo was sleek and red carpet-appropriate. I also liked that she wasn?t dripping in diamonds ? her Neil Lane earrings were apparently controversial on Twitter, but I like that she went for yellow-gold and black accents. Her makeup looked good too.
As for how she behaved? well, I?ll admit that I was barely paying attention to what she said, but CB told me that Aniston seemed drunk. When Aniston presented with Benedict Cumberbatch, it seemed like a combination of nerves and alcohol. Hey, at least she wasn’t stoned.
As for Justin Theroux? eh. What do you want me to say? The Emoting Eyebrow was in full force and his smile looks so fake.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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| | Jennifer Aniston refuses to discuss La Jolie: 'I don't want to give any fuel to the fire' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jennifer Aniston has a new interview in the New York Times. It?s actually a decent read, mainly because I didn?t have to stop and bang my head against the table as Jennifer whined about the tabloids again. In this piece, she actually avoided several linguistic traps designed to get her to say something negative about Angelina Jolie or Brad Pitt (or both). Having read the whole piece, I have to say: it?s pretty clear that that the NYT is still interested in the Uncool Bermuda Triangle. But I?ll give Aniston a slow clap this time for not engaging. She also talks about her giant engagement ring, which I personally think looks like a cloudy quartz, and how God sent her Justin Theroux. Sure. Why not? You can read the full piece here, and here are some highlights:
The Cloak of Rachel: She recognizes this moment as perhaps her best chance to ?take away the cloak of Rachel,? she said, referring to her part on the sitcom ?Friends?? I noted that a reviewer for The Guardian had called ?Cake? a showcase for her ?hitherto hidden acting chops.? ?Hmm, yes, very deep underneath,? she said of these ostensibly buried gifts, adding that the notion was ?kind of head-scratching ? Wow?.?
Fighting for those darker parts: ?You have to do something really dark to be taken seriously, I guess. If you?re in someone?s living room every week for 10 years and every day on God knows what network, people are going to have a hard time saying, ?O.K., we?re going to see you do what now?? without making associations. It?s a Catch-22. It?s like: ?I know I can play this part, you just have to let me.? And then it?s ?I can?t let you play that part, because I?ve never seen you do it.? There were jobs that I really wanted and would fight and fight for and then the obvious previous Oscar winners would get them.?
Tabloids pitting her against Angelina Jolie: ?It?s ridiculous ? that the two names have to go into the same sentence and there has to be a compare-and-despair thing.?
The mention of Jolie?s waning Oscar chances & the Sony Hack: Ms. Aniston beat back any discussion of that. ?I don?t want to give any fuel to the fire,? she said. She is practiced and game enough to permit 30 seconds of conversation about Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt. But a full minute is pushing it. Her posture stiffens.
Her first boyfriend died of a brain tumor a few years ago: ?He was my first love ? five years we were together,? she said, referring to that boyfriend. ?He would have been the one. But I was 25, and I was stupid. He must have sent me Justin to make up for it all.?
Her giant engagement ring: ?It?s a rock, I know,? she said, sounding abashed but not really. ?He rocked it up. It took me a while to get used to it. I?m not a diamond girl. I?m more Indian jewelry and stuff.? I noted the din of speculation about why she and Mr. Theroux hadn?t tied the knot yet, and she said they?re still figuring out what kind of ceremony they want. She didn?t volunteer any more detail than necessary.
The media & sexism: ?You don?t see a lot of men getting asked: ?Why aren?t you married? Why aren?t you having children?? You don?t get the ?Well, they seem to play the same thing over and over again,? and some of them do. We?re very much a sexist society. Women are still not paid as much as men?I?ve been up against that in negotiations myself.?
On Renee Zellweger?s new face: ?There was a big whistle blown out on her, and it was unnecessary. Did she really look that different? Would she walk into a room and you?d say, ?Who is that?? That?s Rene, from here on down.? Ms. Aniston made a sweeping motion starting just below her eyes. ?You can?t hide those pouty little lips. I really do think you?re damned if you do and damned if you don?t. You either are too fat ? ?Oh my God, she?s gained weight, getting chubby, mid-40s spread!? ? or ?She?s so skeletal, get some meat on her bones!? I?ve been on too-thin lists. I?ve been on what-happened-to-her lists.?
[From The NY Times]
The NYT also says that Aniston has been diligently ?following the media script of a publicist known as an Oscar whisperer,? which is what we already knew but it?s nice to see the paper of record pointing it out. As I said, I don?t really have any criticism for how Aniston handled the Angelina questions ? it was clear that the NYT pressed her on those subjects and she tried to shut them down without giving them a pull quote headline (haha, I’m still using it!!!). No, the only thing that bugs me is the Zellweger part ? I do think Renee looked that different, and I don?t think media outlets were wrong in simply NOTICING that Renee looked different.
Here?s a pic of JustJen at an Oscar campaign lunch hosted by Arianna Huffington this week:
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| | Jennifer Aniston reveals her major 'Cake' bravery: putting her head underwater?! | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I was actually holding these Jennifer Aniston stories yesterday because I thought that Jennifer would definitely attend the People?s Choice Awards. I mean, that?s her awards show, right? She has at least a dozen People?s Choice Awards and she?s like the poster girl for that kind of awards show. But that was before the #Cake was washing over all of us and we were being caked into submission. This year, Aniston is too important for the People?s Choice Awards. This year, it?s Oscars or bust!
Speaking of her Oscar campaign, please read this amazingly bitchy Slate piece on Aniston and Cake. Slate isn?t saying that Aniston is wrong to work her campaign like a pro, they?re just saying that if this year wasn?t so ?fallow? for Best Actress nominees, perhaps Aniston?s Cake would have been laughed out of the conversation long ago, because it?s not a very good movie. This line in particular is amazing: ?It?s astonishing just how transparently Cake?s awards push has epitomized the grotesque caricature that awards season truly is.? Word.
Meanwhile, Aniston spoke this week about her bravery in doing the most difficult scene ever in Cake. The difficult scene was? putting her head under water. Really.
We all know Jennifer Aniston has a banging bikini body, but don’t be surprised if you don’t see many pics of her frolicking in the ocean or in a pool.
“I basically have a real fear of going underwater,” she said last night at a special screening of Cake, her much buzzed about indie in which she stars as a woman who suffers from chronic pain and a prescription painkiller addiction after surviving a horrific accident. Her fear made filming some scenes in the movie quite scary because her character’s treatment includes water therapy.
“I was a kid and I was riding this tricycle around a swimming pool and I drove my tricycle into the swimming pool and I didn’t let go and my brother tried to [help me],” Aniston explained. “So, I can’t go underwater and no one will believe me. I honestly can’t.”
The Friends star cracked that one pool shot in Cake took about 30 takes to get right. Not only is Aniston up for a Golden Globe on Sunday for her work in the movie, but we wouldn’t be surprised if her name is among the best actress nominees when the Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 15.
She went without makeup for the movie and put on some weight for the role. Fake fake scars cover her face and body. It’s the kind of part she’d been “dying to do for years.”
Aniston said, “It’s like a catch-22. It’s you know, ?Please let me play this part. I know I can do it.’ But then they won’t give you the part because they don’t know if you could do it. So, it’s hard,” she continued. “You have to just wait for that wonderful brave human being who sort of says, ?This is interesting to me and all of us to take [the] risk and be bold.’”
[From E! News]
Much brave. So Oscar. Very Cake. I get that some people have had traumatic experiences in the water and those scars can last a long time, but does anyone else think this is weird specifically for Aniston? I mean, she loves the beach. She loves tanning by the pool. She only vacations in places where there?s water. And all this time, she?s terrified of putting her head under the water.
Last thing: Fame/Flynet released some photos of Jen and Justin Theroux in Cabo from Monday and LOOK. The JORTS made an appearance!! This honestly made my week.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Jennifer Aniston: 'Bad plastic surgery & injections can really kick you in the ass' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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We?ve got even more highlights from Jennifer Aniston?s InStyle cover interview for the February issue. Even though I was complaining about some missteps by Jennifer?s Oscar strategist (like letting Aniston talk endlessly about her tabloid persona), I do think putting Jennifer on the cover of InStyle was a smart move. InStyle is still on every newsstand, like Cosmo or Glamour, but InStyle has a better, more People Magazine-like audience. It was good timing to get her on the February cover. And to parcel out the good quotes over the course of two days! Yesterday, we heard Jennifer tell some lies about when she got together with Justin Theroux. In today?s excerpts, we hear some of her thoughts about Botox and plastic surgery.
She denies Botoxing: “I just take care of my skin, eat well, exercise. And I love lasers and [other noninvasive treatments like] Thermage [radio frequency] and Ultherapy [ultrasound]. I also like a good microcurrent facial.”
Why she hasn?t gone under the knife like so many actresses: “People lose perspective. I look around and see how bad plastic surgery and injections can really kick you in the ass.?
Her skincare secret? Sleep and water, which she says are “your best bets for really great skin.” Additionally, she sees a naturopathic doctor, who recommends taking fish oil and a probiotic, and when it comes to makeup, the gorgeous stunner swears by “everything from Chanel.”
Her Cake character: “This one, well, she’s really banged up. For two months there were no mirrors to look at, no manicurists. Nothing. The hardest part for me was when they said, ‘Don’t work out.’ I said, ‘But I have to.’ And then I realized, Oh. When you’re not working out, your levels of joy just go down, down, down. And it’s not that easy to get the weight off once you stop working out. You say to your body, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ But that’s just the 40s.”
She eats pasta these days: ?Blasphemy, I know. I never ate pasta. I?ve been allowing myself a lot more in the past few years. Which does make it harder to lose those last few pounds. But you have to live. And so what? You go up a size. What?s the big deal??
[From E! News]
No Botox? except for that time that she tried Botox (for like six months). And no plastic surgery? except for her nose work (and maybe some lip injections). And just sleep and water? and thousands of dollars? worth of laser treatments, peels, facials, Ultratherapy, vitimins, and lots of Chanel products. Because that Aveeno crap is for poor people, amirite? Wait, she?s the face of Aveeno and she didn?t even shill for them in this interview?! Whoa. As for her ?bad plastic surgery and injections? comment, she needs to say something to Courtney Cox. For real. CC has just ruined her beauty completely.
Oh, I also learned that this interview took place on her ?gray cashmere couch in her living room? while she sipped ?passion fruit iced tea.? She has a gray cashmere COUCH? I bet that?s a bitch to clean.
Photos courtesy of InStyle.
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| | Jennifer Aniston blames 'sexism, double-standards' for her tabloid persona | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This post is just for some assorted Jennifer Aniston stories percolating through the system. Aniston?s Oscar strategist has been doing a good job getting the right kind of stories out there, and getting Aniston to do the right kind of interviews and profiles. And it is paying off. At the Hollywood International Film Festival in Capri, Jennifer tied with Amy Adams for the Best Actress Award. Aniston wasn?t in Capri to receive the award in person, probably because she was still on vacation in Cabo.
Jennifer will also receive the Montecito Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival later this month ? the SBIFF gives out awards like candy, for what it?s worth. Previous winners of the Montecito Award (and award for ?a performer who has given a series of classic and standout performances throughout his or her career and whose style has made a major contribution to film?) to Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet, Oprah Winfrey, Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem and more. Aniston is being honored along with (no joke) Michael Keaton, Steve Carell, Ethan Hawke, Felicity Jones, Patricia Arquette, Jenny Slate, Rosamund Pike, JK Simmons, David Oyelowo, Ethan Hawke, Chadwick Boseman and a partridge in a pear tree.
Meanwhile, CBS released some video clips of Aniston?s sit-down interview with Sunday Morning. We already read some quotes from this interview ? Aniston talking about the tabloids and how it?s all a soap opera, etc. She was asked about the still-constant headlines about Brad Pitt and their eleven-year-old split and she said: “I don’t find it painful. I think it’s a narrative that follows you because it’s an interesting headline. It’s more of a media-driven topic.” When asked if she keeps in touch with Brad, she said: “We’ve exchanged good wishes an all that sort of stuff to each other, but it’s not a constant thing.” Here are two clips:
What bugs me is that the clips make it seem like Jennifer just talked about tabloid nonsense rather than her performance in Cake. That?s not necessarily on her though ? the interviewer wouldn?t shut up about how Jennifer is the most famous and pap-stalked person in the world, ever (I mean, except for Angelina Jolie, amirite?????). She also blames ?sexism? for the tabloid focus on her relationships and whether she?ll have babies. Which? eh. Whatever, Jen. I give up. I?m letting the cake wash over me. *rocks back & forth*
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| | Jennifer Aniston covers Allure, talks 'rude, ignorant' speculation about her womb | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Good lord, this really looks like an old photo of Jennifer Aniston, right? Like Allure used a photo from 2004 for their cover. Hm. Anyway, Jennifer covers the January issue of Allure to promote Cake, which has already garnered Golden Globe and SAG Best Actress nominations for Aniston (plus, she got a Critics Choice nomination yesterday as well). Aniston has really upped her interview game for her presumptive Oscar campaign ? last week, her THR interview was actually interesting and lucid. These quotes from Allure are also pretty interesting in that it?s not just random, spacey thoughts and New Age-speak. Some highlights:
Why ?feminism? is seen as complicated: “Because people overcomplicate it. It’s simply believing in equality between men and women. Pretty basic.”
On the questions about pregnancy and children: “I don’t like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women?that you’ve failed yourself as a female because you haven’t procreated. I don’t think it’s fair. You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t mothering?dogs, friends, friends’ children. I have a lot of friends who decided not to have children, who can’t have children, or are trying but are having a difficult time. There’s all sorts of reasons why children aren’t in people’s lives, and no one has the right to assume. It’s quite rude, insulting and ignorant.”
Her public persona as a woman who was ?too driven? to have babies: “This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don’t want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.” Ticking off these accusations now, she seems unfazed. But when it’s suggested to Aniston that maybe she just lets the insinuations roll off her back after so many years of hearing them, she says, “No. Even saying it gets me a little tight in my throat.”
The conversation about ?going ugly for Oscar?: “A woman going physically unattractive is where you get recognition and some sort of respect. You read things like, ‘Oh, finally, she’s acting!’” The actress calls such criticism “quite sexist, to be honest, because men don’t get that.”
On Justin Theroux: “We’re equals. He’s a nurturer. He is so fiercely loyal. Beyond protective. I mean, the way he takes care of our dogs, he takes care of me, he takes care of friends.” Aniston doesn’t say much about their wedding plans. “We do talk about it all the time.?
On Gwyneth Paltrow’s style: “I’ve known her a long time. That woman has got style to the moon and back. Chic, effortless, gorgeous. This sums us up. Look, I’m in a T-shirt, jeans, and 400-year-old shoes, and this one is just, like, to a T. She’s always been sweet to me.”
[From E! News & Allure]
Props to Jennifer for talking about feminism without sounding like a jackass (coughEvangelineLillycough). And she?s absolutely right, society and the media and other people shouldn?t judge women for their reproductive choices. In general. But what I always say about Jennifer is? she invited them in. She always invited the speculation and conversation about the state of her womb. Until she didn?t. And now she?s got different talking points. Now the speculation is ?rude, insulting and ignorant.? It might have been better if she said that in her 2005 Vanity Fair hit-job interview, right?
Photos courtesy of Allure.
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| | Topless Jennifer Aniston Talks Feminism in Allure January 2015 Cover Story | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Her new film ?Cake? sees her exploring new territory and Jennifer Aniston proves she?s one of the strongest women of her day. In her cover story for Allure January 2015, the ?Friends? actress explains that the role ended up being one of her toughest.
"So much of the exercise was just letting yourself fall apart. A woman going physically unattractive is where you get recognition and some sort of respect. You read things like, 'Oh, finally, she's acting!'"
As for the recent resurgence in the ?feminism? movement, Jen insists it doesn?t have to be so tricky. "It?s complicated because people overcomplicate it. It's simply believing in equality between men and women. Pretty basic."
"I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women?that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated. I don't think it's fair. You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn't mean you aren't mothering?dogs, friends, friends' children."
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