As a star of screens, each large and small, Jennifer Aniston has been the topic of many Hollywood rumors over her multi-decade profession. Nonetheless, lots of these rumors have been decidedly bizarre or downright weird. From alleged affairs with quite a few A-list actors to unusual components in her skincare routine, the “Pals” star has a swirl of tabloid-ready headlines which have adopted her — whether or not they’re true or not.

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However Aniston isn’t any stranger to setting the file straight in interviews, particularly on the subject of explicit editorial practices. “We have now to cease naming somebody’s title and placing their title subsequent to it,” she as soon as shared with Attract. “I additionally suppose we have to take away remark sections.”

Despite the fact that she was the one who was famously on the opposite aspect of a dishonest scandal, Jennifer Aniston was as soon as accused of being untrue to her ex-husband, Brad Pitt. In 2004, only one 12 months earlier than the pair referred to as it quits, Star Journal reported that Aniston was hooking up with “Pals” co-star Matt LeBlanc. Issues obtained murkier when the outlet’s “supply” turned out to be LeBlanc’s father, who claimed that the pair would make out of their dressing rooms whereas filming the hit sequence (by way of Lady’s Day).

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The co-stars by no means spoke of the alleged affair, and Aniston and Pitt went on to have a messy, drama-filled breakup. Nonetheless, despite the fact that the timeline of Pitt and Aniston’s relationship was stuffed with ups and downs, the 2 finally reconciled and remained associates. “We want nothing however fantastic issues for one another,” the “Simply Go along with It” star shared with The Hollywood Reporter in 2015. “If the world solely may simply cease with the silly, cleaning soap opera bulls***.”

All through her profession, Jennifer Aniston confronted limitless and false experiences of her being pregnant. She’s commented on the extreme scrutiny she confronted from the trade over time and the way her reactions have modified over time. “​​I used to take all of it very personally,” she informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2021. “[The press] do not know something, and it was actually hurtful and simply nasty.” She even penned an essay for The Huffington Publish in 2016 the place she lambasted those that had scrutinized and physique shamed her, inflicting her to be “fed up” with the false narratives that had circled her for many years.

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She finally revealed why she does not have any kids: she had struggled with IVF for a few years. However the tragic particulars of Aniston’s life have not led her to resentment. “I truly really feel a bit reduction now as a result of there is no such thing as a extra,” she admitted to Attract in 2022. “I haven’t got to consider that anymore.”

For somebody who has spent most of her life within the Hollywood limelight, Jennifer Aniston has undoubtedly confronted her fair proportion of affair rumors. One of the crucial weird instances got here when tabloids reported that she and former U.S. President Barack Obama have been in a secret relationship, going as far as to name the 2 “obsessed” with one another. The affair rumors exploded with Michelle Obama’s absence from a number of high-profile occasions alongside her politician husband in early 2025, inflicting many to consider the previous first couple was headed towards divorce.

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The story was so outlandish to Aniston that “The Morning Present” star even addressed it publicly on tv, calling the rumors utterly unfaithful. “I’ve met him as soon as,” she defined on an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Reside.” “I do know Michelle greater than [I know] him.” Nonetheless, she did poke a bit enjoyable on the state of affairs with a cheeky remark. “I used to be not mad at it!”

It isn’t simply with Barack Obama that Jennifer Aniston has been rumored to be connected. She’s additionally confronted claims that she and one among her dearest associates, actor Jason Bateman, have constructed greater than only a friendship over time. The “Horrible Bosses” co-stars have starred in a handful of movies collectively all through their careers, and offscreen, they have been identified to take luxurious holidays collectively — with their important others. Bateman’s spouse, Amanda Anka, is one other shut good friend of Aniston’s. The “Pals” actor is so near them that she even invitations them to Bora Bora along with her after which her husband, Justin Theroux, whereas they’re on their honeymoon. She has by no means addressed the romance rumors publicly, however she has shared reward for her good friend. “He’s one among [the] loveliest males to be round,” she gushed throughout Bateman’s Hollywood Stroll of Fame ceremony in 2017.

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The “Marley & Me” actor was additionally rumored to be seeing Pedro Pascal after paparazzi caught them eating collectively in 2025. Whereas Aniston stored mum on the topic, Pascal himself was fast to debunk these rumors. “We’re associates and we went to dinner with mutual associates,” he affirmed to E! Information. “It occurs.”

Throughout the decade when she starred in “Pals,” Jennifer Aniston confronted a bevy of rumored relationships each on and offscreen. She and Matt LeBlanc have been rumored to be hooking up on set of their dressing rooms after they weren’t filming — at the very least, in accordance with a questionable report from LeBlanc’s estranged father. However representatives for each stars shortly debunked the rumors, with Aniston’s camp even making a public assertion stating that Anniston “by no means had a romantic or sexual relationship with Matt LeBlanc” (per Day by day Star).

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Aniston was additionally linked to co-star David Schwimmer, who performed her fictional on-again-off-again boyfriend all through the present’s run. However the fact about Aniston and Schwimmer’s offscreen relationship is extra of a “what if” state of affairs. Each finally admitted that that they had crushes on one another through the first season of “Pals,” however the timing was by no means proper to make one thing of their emotions. “Sooner or later we have been each crushing onerous on one another, but it surely was like two ships passing as a result of one among us was all the time in a relationship, and we by no means crossed that boundary,” Schwimmer revealed in an interview for Max’s “Pals” reunion particular in 2021 (by way of Buzzfeed Information).

Despite the fact that she endured public scrutiny each throughout and after her dramatic break up from Brad Pitt within the mid-2000s, it wasn’t simply her ex-spouse that Jennifer Aniston confronted rumors about. Pitt’s then-flame and eventual spouse, Angelina Jolie, turned “the opposite lady” within the extremely publicized love triangle, and for years, the feminine feud was probably the most extensively reported in Hollywood.

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Whereas every A-lister has stored comparatively mum on the opposite, Aniston and Jolie nonetheless reportedly nonetheless don’t like one another. There have been even whispers of the previous purposely tampering with the latter’s Oscar probabilities when Jolie was campaigning for her function in “Maria.” Based on an unnamed supply, Jolie allegedly thought that Aniston and their now mutual ex-husband Pitt began a smear marketing campaign in opposition to her in an effort to maintain her from being nominated for an Academy Award. “It has been 20 years since Angelina stole Brad from Jen, however she nonetheless hasn’t forgiven her,” the supply shared with Radar On-line. Stories additionally claimed that Aniston enlisted her fellow A-list associates, together with Sandra Bullock, to maintain Jolie’s title out of the record of nominations. “Jen’s social community is extremely highly effective,” one other supply informed InTouch Weekly.

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One of the crucial weird rumors about Jennifer Aniston did not contain an alleged beau or backstabbing second. She reportedly indulged in a particular facial that listed salmon sperm as an ingredient. The kicker? Aniston confirmed that the rumor was true! When describing the process, she detailed that she went with the circulate when speaking to the esthetician. “I simply took the girl’s phrase, that is what it was, and I used to be like, ‘Certain!'” she admitted on an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Reside” in 2025.

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However the out-there skincare approach is not as farfetched as some might imagine. Aniston is understood for her devoted magnificence routine and served as a spokesperson for Aveeno for a few years. Her magnificence secrets and techniques have been extensively reported, and her esthetician has even launched her personal skincare line, prompting many to hunt out pores and skin identical to Aniston’s. “I simply placed on nourishing issues I really feel are as natural as attainable,” she as soon as mentioned of her routine in an interview with Attract.

Utilizing salmon sperm for a specialty pores and skin remedy wasn’t the one wild rumor that Jennifer Aniston has admitted was true. When pressed by Jimmy Kimmel to handle different rumors that he listed off, she hesitantly acknowledged that she travels along with her personal jars of olives and that she has a Ziploc bag stuffed with the ashes of her deceased therapist. The “Wanderlust” star did not elaborate on the tales, however she did affirm their validity with an embarrassed snigger. “I am gonna sound like I actually need a therapist after this!” she lamented on “Jimmy Kimmel Reside.”

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There have been nonetheless loads of rumors that she debunked, together with that she was a black belt in jiu-jitsu and that she purchased an costly anti-aging water filter for her canines. However not all the claims have been unfaithful, or all that wild. She confirmed that she had a bit of her personal art work hanging in New York’s Museum of Fashionable Artwork when she was simply 11 years outdated.