Jennifer Aniston Has ‘Nothing to Lose By Telling the Truth’ After Opening Up in Revealing New Interview

Months after her four-year marriage to Brad Pitt ended 20 years ago, and he’d publicly started flaunting his relationship with new love Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston famously criticized her ex.

Her candid comments came after Brad posed in a headline-making 60-page W magazine feature depicting him and his Mr. & Mrs. Smith costar as a 1960s-era husband and wife with a brood of blond children — just as critics were falsely accusing Jen of choosing her career over starting a family with Brad.

“There’s a sensitivity chip that’s missing,” Jen dryly declared in the September 2005 issue of Vanity Fair, adding with a verbal eyeroll, “We’re divorced, and you can see why.”

It was a groundbreaking moment for the A-lister, who was widely seen as the woman on the losing side of the love triangle at the time.

Two decades later, Jen is setting the record straight. In Vanity Fair’s September 2025 issue, the 56-year-old reflected on that “vulnerable time,” then shared her mantra for surviving unending scrutiny:

“Just pick yourself up by the bootstraps and keep on walking, girl.”

(In a sign she’s done just that, she joked about her PTSD from the earlier interview, saying the experience was “one for the memoirs.”)

Now, she’s getting real again about navigating new loves, painful losses and finally making peace. “She sees no reason to backtrack,” a source tells Star.

“She’s just as transparent — perhaps more so. Ask her a question, and Jen will give it to you straight. She’s not afraid to talk about her vulnerabilities. She has nothing to lose by telling the truth.”

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That includes confessing that Brad, 61 — whose romance with Angelina, 50, spectacularly imploded in 2016 and led to years of bitter legal wrangling — remains a topic of discussion in her social circle.

The Emmy winner has been friends with Brad’s former fiancée Gwyneth Paltrow, 52, since 1996, when the Oscar-winning actress worked with Jen’s Friends costar David Schwimmer, 58, in the movie The Pallbearer.

At the time, Gwyneth and Brad were Hollywood’s golden couple. “Ironically, I went to her and Brad’s engagement party,” Jen told the mag.

Asked if she and Gwyneth — who called things off with Brad in 1997 — still talk about their mutual ex, Jen quickly admitted, “Oh, of course.

How can we not? We’re girls.” According to fitness-lover Jen, however, she and the Goop founder more often discuss wellness.

“We’re always swapping advice,” Jen shared, like, “‘What are you doing for this? What are you doing for that? Do you have a new doctor for that?’”

Post-Brad, Jen’s unlucky-in-love streak is well known.

Serious romances with The Break-Up costar Vince Vaughn, 55, and Grammy winner John Mayer, 47, flamed out, and she and Justin Theroux, 54, split in 2017, just two years after exchanging vows.

(“She is still very dear to me,” Justin said last year.) But she didn’t sour on romance.

“Never say never, but I don’t have any interest,” she demurred when asked about marrying again in 2022.

Still, she explained to Allure, “I’d love a relationship.… There are moments I want to just crawl up in a ball and say, ‘I need support.’

It would be wonderful to come home and fall into somebody’s arms and say, ‘That was a tough day.’”

Her inability to become a mom has been another disappointment.

It didn’t help that for years she was dogged by pregnancy rumors.

In 2022, Jen finally shared that she had been privately dealing with infertility.

“It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” she revealed, adding, “I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it.” Ultimately she decided to let go of that dream and is now happily childless.

As pal Jason Bateman told VF, she’s a kind of a “co-mom” to his and wife Amanda Anka’s kids.

“She almost makes us parents look bad because she’s so incredibly attentive and consistent with her curiosity and warmth,” he gushed.

Her New Man

This summer, photos confirmed speculation that Jen had quietly welcomed a new love into her life — the first man she’s publicly dated since Justin.

In June, she and self-described “coach and spiritual educator” Jim Curtis, who’s also a hypnotherapist, were photographed sharing a meal in Northern California’s Big Sur region.

Online sleuths soon discovered that Jen followed Jim on Instagram and had been “liking” his posts for months.

(Back in April, she offered a possible peek into their relationship origins when she revealed to Travel + Leisure magazine that she’d been undergoing hypnotherapy to confront her “extreme fear of flying”).

In May, she posted a picture of his book Shift: Quantum Manifestation Guide: A Workbook for Coding a New Consciousness to Instagram.

By early July, the two were snapped vacationing on a yacht in Mallorca, Spain, alongside some of her pals Jason, comedian Amy Schumer and others.

More outings, including in NYC, followed.

“It’s not easy to date when you’re Jennifer Aniston, but she’s found a guy who she has a lot in common with and who isn’t threatened by her celebrity,” says the source.

Without mentioning names, Jason confirmed to VF that Jen “gravitates” to men who are “comfortable in [their own] skin,” explaining, “You don’t need to be some superhero to grab her attention.

The challenge is for a guy to see past her fame and charisma and presence and beauty — to not be distracted by that — and tune into the stuff at the deep core.”

Letting Go

As she’s healed from the fallout of her romantic relationships, the Morning Show star has also found ways to cope with other significant losses.

In 2023, Friends costar Matthew Perry tragically died at 54 from the “acute effects” of ketamine after decades of grappling with addiction issues.

“We did everything we could when we could,” Jen said of the tight-knit cast, acknowledging that Matthew’s addiction was too deep.

After sitting with her grief, she came to a wrenching conclusion: “It almost felt like we’d been mourning Matthew for a long time because his battle with that disease was a really hard one for him to fight.” She mused, “As hard as it was for all of us and for the fans, there’s a part of me that thinks this is better.

I’m glad he’s out of that pain.”

At this point in her life, Jen is unapologetic.

She’s grateful for the amazing career and connections she’s forged with pals like Murder Mystery costar Adam Sandler (Jen calls him a “lifer” who “would lay down on the tracks for me”) and Sandra Bullock, a confidante of more than 15 years.

“I think her superpower is that she could very easily be hard, but she’s incredibly open,” Sandra told Vanity Fair.

“People want to know about her and understand where she is in life and want her to be happy.”