Celebrating our Friend’s big5-0!
You’d never know it to look at her but Jennifer Aniston is 50 today. As a gift to the star we’d all like to be Friends with, we’ve put together a half-century’s worth of reasons to love her
Turns out, however, that the Friends star is perfectly happy living in her Hollywood mansion with her adorable dogs. She does not need a husband or children right now.
She has movies and TV series to make. And she will karate-chop anyone who says differently.
Here are 50 reasons why we love her to bits. 1 She is part-Scottish on her late mother Nancy Dow’s side. 2 Her godfather is Kojak actor Telly Savalas. 3 She went to the Fame academy, better known as Fiorello H LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, in New York. 4 She played a vengeful goblin in the 1993 stinker Leprechaun. 5 Then she played Rachel Green, patron saint of coffee-drinking shopaholic women everywhere. 6 Her haircut was so famous it became named after her Friends character (although she was not wild about the long choppy layers). 7 Earning $1million an episode in the final years of Friends made her (and Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow) the highest-paid women on TV. 8 She kept her dignity during her divorce from Brad Pitt. 9 She glammed down for her role in The Good Girl in 2002. 10 She’s not on social media, although there are fan sites galore. 11 Her guest-star game is strong. She’s popped up in Courteney Cox’s series Dirt and Tina Fey’s 30 Rock. 12 Post-Friends, her co-stars have included Jim Carrey, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson, Gerard Butler and Ben Affleck. 13 As executive producer, she helped raise the cash to make Dumplin’, a Netflix film about a fat teenager and her pageant-mad momma. 14 She’s guaranteeing herself good parts by making her own projects, such as Murder Mystery with Adam Sandler and First Ladies, about the first lesbian US president. 15 Top of the Morning, a sitcom set on a morning news show, will see her back on TV in a regular role. Her co-star is none other than Reese Witherspoon. 16 There’s a bit of a rock chick thing going on – she’s appeared in music videos for Tom Petty and Melissa Etheridge. 17 She shares the love, making $500,000 donations to Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross and victims of the Cuban earthquake and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. 18 One of her favourite charities is Friends of El Far, which supports an orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. 19 She directed and starred in a video to fight for freedom in Burma and supports the anti-poverty charity Feeding America. 20 Women’s causes, such as the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, are close to her heart.