Would YOU pay £1,231,813 to freeze time like Jen?
Two pictures, a staggering 17 years apart. So how does Jennifer Aniston do it? Taking her own clues, we reveal what it would cost you to get the same dazzling results
BliNK, and you might imagine it was the year 2000 again. How else can one explain the astonishing similarity between these two pictures of Jennifer Aniston, one taken at this year’s Oscars ceremony, the other 17 years ago at the same event?
From the flash of bronzed and toned tummy through her split-to-the-navel, floor-length black gown to the long, sunkissed tresses, you’d be hard pressed to find a single difference between the two images, despite the passing of the years.
So how has Aniston, 48, seemingly managed to halt the hands of Father time?
the answer: hard work, unstinting focus — and a litany of treatments.
Fancy trying it? Unfortunately, to have all of the treatments Aniston talks about the recommended number of times over the course of 17 years will cost an astonishing £1.2 million, or £70,989 a year.
it’s worth it, though. After all, those youthful looks have helped her earn a fortune — Aniston’s £115million net worth is said to be largely founded on long-standing commercial deals with the likes of skincare range Aveeno (rumoured to pay her more than £10 million in a rolling deal) and Glaceau Smart Water, rather than acting.
Of course, being Jennifer Aniston, she will receive many complimentary beauty services. But if you or i were to attempt her regime, it would cost a king’s ransom.
Here, we analyse the price she’s paid to hold back the years . . .
FACE — £6,040
THAT eternally fresh-faced look doesn’t come cheap — or easily. Aniston has tried pretty much every skin treatment going, and she has reaped the rewards.
Since 2000, her skincare regime has become increasingly high-tech. Back then, she was a fan of face creams containing AHAs — alpha hydroxy acids — a gentle chemical exfoliant. today, her top treatment is the CACI laser facial — a kind of nonsurgical facelift also favoured by Prince Harry’s girlfriend meghan markle.
it costs around £50 a session, and is recommended once a month — thus costing Aniston £600 a year on this one treatment alone. She rhapsodised about the effects last year: ‘i love lasers and thermage and Ultherapy [ultrasound facials]. i also like a good microcurrent facial.’
the latter is, says Aniston, ‘like a little workout for your face’.
two wands — one delivering a positive current, the other negative — are held against the face to tighten the skin. it costs around £90 an hour, and is recommended monthly.
As for Ultherapy, it costs around £750 a pop and is used every six months.
Said to be excruciating, it uses ultrasound waves to tighten the skin from the inside.
lasers are then used to reduce her facial wrinkles or acne scars — ‘a great refresher’, Aniston says. Costing around £250 for 30 minutes, it is recommended around four times a year.
And before very special events, Jen is said to enjoy the red Carpet Facial at the tracie martyn Spa, costing £360, which she is likely to treat herself to once a year.
Given, then, that all her treatments could cost just over £6,000 a year in total, it is perhaps just as well that
Aniston is loyal to the low‑cost Neutrogena Facial Cleansing bar, which costs just £2.26.
HAIR — £6,975
ANISTON is best friends with her hairdresser Chris McMillan, who has been tending to her naturally wavy crowning glory since before the start of Friends in 1994, and was responsible for the much‑ imitated layered ‘Rachel’ cut (named after the character she played in the long‑running U.s. TV sitcom).
He said: ‘When i first met her, she had long, one‑length hair with a fringe, and she was like: “Don’t cut my hair. i want my hair long.”
‘But i’m a hairdresser, so i obviously cut her hair and told her she needed to grow her fringe out. i cut a couple inches off and layered it from her fringe down to the ends.
‘six weeks later, she came back for another haircut — her sides were longer, and we just cut a little bit more off her length.
‘the next thing you know, her grown‑out fringe was down to her chin, and the rest of her hair was at her shoulders in these long, loose layers that sort of flipped out. And that’s what we called the Rachel.’
Aniston remarked in 2011: ‘i love Chris, and he’s the bane of my existence at the same time because he started that damn Rachel, which was not my best look. How do i say this? i think it was the ugliest haircut that i’ve ever seen.’
McMillan also converted her from cheap and cheerful Aussie three‑ Minute Miracle conditioner to more costly shu Uemura products and his own product line.
But after landing a deal with Living Proof haircare in 2012, she reportedly switched to their prod‑ ucts. However, she parted com‑ pany with the firm after it was bought by Unilever a few months later. it’s unclear which products she uses today.
As for treatments, McMillan charges £450 for a cut and Aniston sees him every six weeks, but it’s unclear whether she pays because they are close friends.
He also travels with her when she is on promotional business for films. When this happens, his fees and travel and accommodation costs will be met by Aniston’s film company.
Her honey‑blonde colour is taken care of by Michael Canale who charges from £325 for base and highlights. if she sees both of them every six weeks and pays, that would tadd up to £6,975 a year.
MAKE UP — £676
ANISTON’s daily make‑up is mod‑ est enough — Chanel mascara (£25) and concealer (£27), Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser (£35) — or on a bad skin day Armani Face Fabric foundation (£40).
she also likes Hauschka lip balm (£10) and a Chanel foundation compact (£32), which means it’s already cost her £169 to step out of the house.
Estimating that most women need to refill their make‑up bags around four times a year, Aniston probably spends just under £700 on make‑up every 12 months (that’s if she buys her products herself, of course).
BROWS — £720
ALWAYS immaculate, Aniston invests hundreds of pounds a year in caring for her eyebrows.
she employs Hollywood brow guru Anastasia soare and has done so for years.
soare, who also oversees the brows of the Kardashians and Victoria Beckham, charges at least £60 per visit.
once a month would be a typical schedule, although some people come in every week for touch‑ups.
A monthly visit at that price would come to £720 a year.
TAN — £1,924
A FAKE tan fan for decades, Aniston has been seen at the ibiza tanning salon in West Hollywood, where she is said to get its airbrush spray tan for £37.
if she goes once a week, it adds up to £1,924 a year.
NECK — £366
No WOMAN over 40 likes her neck, and Jennifer Aniston is no excep‑ tion. she apparently swears by Euoko Fractional Neck Lift Con‑ centrate, which costs £366.
it lists as one of its ingredients: ‘Discovered‑on‑Mars iron Rose Crystal, from Effusive Magma Rock in Hydrothermal seams.’
one pot should last Jen a year.
NOSE — £20,000 (two one-off treatments)
ANISTON’s only confirmed plas‑ tic surgeries are her two nose jobs — one pre‑Friends and one in around 2008, when she was strug‑ gling to find love after the very public humiliation of her divorce from Brad Pitt and his subsequent relationship with Angelina Jolie.
Dr Raj Kanodia, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, did the honours for her second rhinoplasty.
Average costs for a rhinoplasty with Dr Raj run from £7,000 to £10,000, making it likely that Jen has paid out around £20,000 on her nose over the past two decades.
CHEST — POSSIBLY £5,000
HAs she or hasn’t she? there has been a lot of speculation, but never an admission of any breast augmentation. some fluctuation could be explained by a little weight gain.
However, Hollywood plastic sur‑ geon Dr Zara Harutyunyan said last summer that she believes Ani‑ ston may have had a mastopexy, which raises and firms the breasts rather than enlarging them.
such a procedure would cost around £5,000.
Annual total — £70,989 Total for 17 years between pictures — £1,206,813
...plus £25,000 on reported one‑off plastic surgery treatments to Jennifer’s nose and breasts
FINAL FIGURE: £1,231,813