Here we go again, another sob story for the saddest, loneliest woman who ever lived. Ugh. I’m sick of Jennifer Aniston being crucified by every glossip mag on the planet for her “not-good-enough” love life. Not good enough for who?

It was nice of GQ to give the dowdy spinster a front cover


Just imagine that every time a story appeared about you or your work, your ex and his new wife were also mentioned, as though you’re inextricably attached and can never hope to move on with the amount of horrendous diatribe spouting about him, and her, and you.

You’re not involved anymore – doesn’t anyone get it?

The latest mouthwatering tidbit is that Jen broke down during the filming of The Bounty in New York a few weeks ago.

Story goes that she was late coming out of her trailer and when an assistant was sent to fetch her, she said in tears, “I need a moment, this scene reminds me of Brad and me”.

Really? That sounds a tad far-fetched. Her publicist Stephen Huvane denies it, saying the story is “ridiculous … it never happened” and I’m 99% sure this is another fabricated bit of rubbish in the whole Jen-Brad-Ange triangle. The article then went on to share that Brad and Ange have bought a $60million estate in France with a private airstrip. 

Um, weren’t we just talking about poor Jen crying at work? Why bring up the golden couple?

And why is there another made up story about Jen not being over Brad yet? It’s been four years. I’m pretty sure the girl has gotten past the worst of it.

Why do the headlines flash “Lonely girl”, “Sad, lonely Jen”, “Unlucky in love Jen”,  “Still single Jen”, “Single again Jen”, “Love rat bites Jen again”, “Sad, sad Jen”?

I’m sorry, but there’s nothing sad about Jennifer Aniston. She pulled in a cool $25million last year (Jun 08-Jun 09, Newsday), has one of the world’s most coveted bodies at age 40, is best friends with Courtney Cox – a friendship that’s lasted at least 15 years so it must be real - and has dated the who’s who of available men since her marriage broke up: Vince Vaughn, John Mayer, Paul Sculfor, Geoff Stults and (rumour has it) Gerard Butler.

Now, just because she’s not going out with these men anymore, does it necessarily mean that she was the victim? Did they all screw her over just because Brad Pitt did, and it’s been decided that will be her legacy, now and forever? Will we ever let Jennifer Aniston have a normal love life?

What if, and this is a bit of a stretch folks, but what if Jennifer Aniston is actually happy she and Brad aren’t married anymore ‘cause clearly, they weren’t meant to be together and it’s better that they broke up before they had children.

What if she’s been playing the field? Living it large, dipping her toe in the dating game, sowing those 40-year-old roots she’s worked so hard to cultivate? What if Jennifer Aniston is actually in her prime right now, gallivanting among the world’s rich and famous and doesn’t want to settle down with any old cad she cares to flirt with? What if she’s just, well, flirting.

With no serious intention of “trying to catch” a man. What if, and this is a biggie, she’s taking her time because the last guy she married wasn’t right for her and she doesn’t want to make the same mistake again? Hmm?

It’s entirely possible that she’s been cast as the poster girl for sad, lonely women all over the world, but isn’t either of those things. Of course, she’s perfectly gracious about the unflattering labels, saying to Elle magazine “If I’m the emblem for ‘this is what it looks like to be the lonely girl getting on with her life,’ so be it.” 

Heck, give me Jennifer Aniston’s bank account, address list, personal trainer, nutritionist, wardrobe, multiple houses, and dress size and you can bet that I wouldn’t be sad OR lonely.

It just gets to me that single men like George Clooney are called playboys, but perennial single women like Jennifer and Cameron Diaz are labeled unlucky in love or pining for a man or looking for a husband. Who’s to say it isn’t their choice?  Maybe they’re not ready to get married and have kids.

Maybe they like their life as it is. Ever thought of that?

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    • Stephen Pickells says:

      08:32am | 29/09/09

      Is this the new journalism? Use as many words as possible to make one point.

    • Daniel says:

      08:33am | 29/09/09

      I think she looks great for her age. if she knocked on my door I would let her in. i think shes a hottie.

    • Mr Pastry says:

      08:38am | 29/09/09

      I’m sick of manufactured Jennifer Aniston relationship stories.  If you need to show pictures of half dressed ladies, please pick a beauty who has some dignity and not a piece of old airbrushed mutton.

    • Joel B1 says:

      09:34am | 29/09/09

      Why anyone likes the horse-faced cow is beyond me.
      Mind you she’s better looking than Elle (who can’t walk through an ordinary doorway without turning sideways to get those massive shoulders through, miow)

    • Helen says:

      09:37am | 29/09/09

      Has any one else noticed how much of a man’s face she has…? I don’t see what all the fuss is about. though it’s funny how the media says george clooney is a gorgeous bachelor but jennifer is sad because she’s alone?

    • Danielle says:

      09:41am | 29/09/09

      This story packs a punch! Airbrushed mutton? Journalism that uses lots of words to make one point? You’re all a punch of cynics.. I think it does have to be said - woman should be able to be single and fabulous without being sad, pathetic or lonely similar to Mr Clooney who is apparently the ultimate in being a cool single bachelor!

      And if you are sick of these types of stories, don’t read them!

    • Laine says:

      09:47am | 29/09/09

      I completely agree with is article. I’m a huge fan of Jen, and I’m so sick of the media’s treatment of her as some sad, lonely victim.  I think she’s fantastic, and the only reason I feel sorry for her is because of the intense scrutiny she is under, particularly with regard to her relationships.  No wonder she can’t find a man (if she is even looking for one), for what kind of man would want to be subjected to that?

    • Anne says:

      10:01am | 29/09/09

      Jen is awesom and she an idol for many including me. Love everything about her and YES there is nothing wrong with not wanting to settle down and just enjoy life (minus sluty ways if anyone is thinking that direction) but we need time off guys marrying at ~40s and living with same someone for the next ~30 is more than enough! Talk about vaccuming our lives much?

      Single is freedom wink rreow

      Love Jen

    • Andre says:

      10:08am | 29/09/09

      Stephen Pickells, that’s a useless comment. Do you prefer all stories be condensed down to one line, like in those idiotic CNN news tickers that never actually inform… ‘120 dead in afghanistan… earthquake in china kills 20… jennifer aniston single but happy…

    • Heléna says:

      10:11am | 29/09/09

      please *rollseyes* if she stopped whining about Brad in every interview she did, then I might actually believe that she is the beautiful happy confident person that Cameron Diaz appears to be

    • Tim says:

      10:50am | 29/09/09

      Lonely?....She has a new man regularly - what are the media talking about?
      Good on Jen for wearing her heart on her sleeve, it must be great for her to let go like that in her environment.
      She seems fine and I would love to have a woman in my life similar.

    • Ginger says:

      10:52am | 29/09/09

      “sewing those 40-year-old roots she’s worked so hard to cultivate?”  What sort of needle would be required for that job?

    • Sally says:

      10:58am | 29/09/09

      Unfortunately by age 40 three in five women are infertile, and by age 43 it would be a rare woman who would be fertile. Jennifer Aniston is 40 and single, if she wants to have a child / children then she has left it a bit late. That is why people pity her. It’s called biology.

    • Kath says:

      11:00am | 29/09/09

      Heléna, perhaps if the interviewers stopped asking her about Brad and Ange she wouldn’t be ‘whining’ about him at all! I’d guess it’s not on the list of things she wants to be asked about over and over and over and over again.

    • Biff says:

      11:50am | 29/09/09

      I disagree Sally. As Brad, Angie and Madonna have shown us Africa is a real treasure trove of kids waiting to be adopted. It won’t be long before a catalogue is published featuring African kids available for adoption by Hollywood’s elite.

    • Fiona says:

      12:17pm | 29/09/09

      Why are we always hearing about and seeing Jennifer Aniston in the media?  She’s not that good a sort, not that good an actor and who cares if she can’t get a man?  Is it just because she was once briefly married to Brad Pitt?  Big deal!

    • Heléna says:

      12:29pm | 29/09/09

      she could always refuse to comment Kath -  or only proceed with interviews where the journalist has agreed not to ask her questions about her personal life - although she would be well aware that she would not get the publicity she does get if she insisted on those terms wink

    • Sortino says:

      01:01pm | 29/09/09

      A few years from now people will be asking Jennifer who? The media is very fickle and don’t forget that even though the stars always deny it, half the stories are planted by their own publicists. These people will pay any price to be noticed and stay on the front cover of a glossy magazine as long they can.

    • notgreg says:

      01:02pm | 29/09/09

      I’ll marry her.  Hey Jen, thinking of your next husband: Think Aussie!

    • Sharon Tracey says:

      01:14pm | 29/09/09

      I can’t wait to hear more of her love/no-love life and what she may/may not want as it gives me something to look forward to.  Some may say my existence must be so pointless why would I bother feeding myself, but they do not understand that Jen is an exciting role model.

    • Stranger says:

      01:14pm | 29/09/09

      I think all the reactions prove one point : Jennifer Aniston is a controversial character. She has a story to tell (or to keep to herself). Some might not like her, but she is living a life few of us can relate to.
      Honestly being judged on looks or by who you were dating in a previous life is getting tired and sad.

    • Revona says:

      01:56pm | 29/09/09

      Jen is fantastic I’m a huga fan of her and watch all the interviews she does… She answers questions about Brad because she is asked them.. All you who commented on her being ugly ur just jealous you cant look that fantastic at 40… if she was a crappy actress she wouldnt have scored so many roles.. so the media needs to leave her alone, Im a student journalist and think its pathetic the way they portray her.

    • Kelly says:

      02:08pm | 29/09/09

      So Sally - according to you, Jennifer is the object of pity because she’s not had a baby. Okay, so lets ignore the fact most poeple are not horribly judgemental about people they don’t know, as you clearly are, and think about the fact that Ms Aniston is clearly rich enough to adopt/buy/borrow one if she is so desperate. Obviously, she is “barren” by choice!

      And as for Mr Pasty and Joel B1, gee they seem like real classy guys. And they say women are the bitchy ones!

    • acker says:

      03:55pm | 29/09/09

      I’d be prepared to put myself out, and spare a few hours with Jen to address these loneliness issues ;/

    • Razor says:

      08:17pm | 29/09/09

      Helen - who is looking at her face?

    • Jenny says:

      08:20pm | 29/09/09

      Sheesh what a bunch of meanies here. According to you she’s either ugly or untalented. Yet despite these obvious fatal flaws, she makes more money than all of you combined and could retire tomorrow if she wished. And to Sally, not every female wants to be a baby factory. I’m just glad that at 41 I’ve been lucky enough to have a hysterectomy. No kids, no periods, no dramas…. ahh the freedom. I don’t pity her at all!

    • regina says:

      10:40pm | 29/09/09

      well i don’t know jennifer aniston so i couldn’t really say if she’‘s happy or not but seeing as how everyone else has a view, let me have a shot too.

      i don’t buy the whole ‘she’s happy being single’ rubbish for one nanosecond!

      hypothetically sure, there’s no reason why a woman needs a man to be happy. heck, that’s almost a given.

      but she was very married to brad pitt and now she’s very much not. in fact he’s taken up with the beautiful angelina and has had 100 babies with her and he can’t stop blabbing about how happy and fulfilled and amazing his life is with her and their gorgeous family.

      OF COURSE SHE’S MISERABLE.

    • Pixie says:

      10:33am | 30/09/09

      Please give me a bucket…..stale, stale and boring news at any time…we are suffocated every day with this crap about these people….they are not celebrities….they are MORONS with no other life…get them out of our faces

    • Carl Palmer says:

      05:08pm | 01/10/09

      “What if she’s been playing the field? Living it large, dipping her toe in the dating game, sowing those 40-year-old roots she’s worked so hard to cultivate?”

      Hey Jen, no need to be sad, park you slippers over here sweetheart.

    • Erin Vee says:

      10:00pm | 10/10/09

      “Stephen Pickells says:09:32am | 29/09/09

      Is this the new journalism? Use as many words as possible to make one point. “
      No, it’s not ‘new journalism’, it’s a well written, humorous piece of writing. Not everything we read has to have every ‘that’ edited out and fun sucked out of it. It’s not a report on the earthquake in Indonesia for Gods sake!

    • Gillian says:

      01:58pm | 28/10/09

      Great article! I’m Team Aniston all the way and if she’s the poster child for loneliness, then count me in. I’d much rather be Jennifer Aniston than Angelina Jolie who lures men purely through her sex appeal (which she is losing very quickly) and saddled with all those children.  Jennifer Aniston does not have to justify her life choices to anyone.

      http://www.30isthenewblack.com

    • reta says:

      03:43pm | 15/12/09

      i think she look great and she the must beautifull women from the stars any men would have her she cant find love beacuse she still in love with brad (her ex) nobady can replace him in her heart, i wish her luck

 

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