‘Poor Jennifer Aniston’ is an absurd tag for a woman so fulfilled and successful | Barbara Ellen

A second divorce sees the former Friends star Jennifer Aniston replay her old role: female failure personified

I’ve just realised something huge and awful on Jennifer Aniston’s behalf – it will never ever be over. “It” being the torrent of intrusion, accusation, speculation and weirdness that comes with her second unofficial career as International Totem for Supreme Female Biological and Relationship Failure.

Aniston has just given an interview explaining how tiresome and sometimes painful it is to have her life reduced to not having children and not being able to “hang on to a man”. (She is divorcing her second husband, Justin Theroux.) She talked about baby-shaming, split-blaming and the perception of non-mothers as “damaged goods”, hinting that not becoming a mother may not have been planned: “They don’t know what I’ve been through medically or emotionally.”

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2AH9kVc

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