When her marriage to Brad Pitt ended in 2005 and he began a relationship with Angelina Jolie shortly afterward, the tabloids turned Jennifer Aniston into “poor Jen”, as if her entire story could be summed up as having been abandoned. 💔
But she herself rejected that role: “I don’t feel like a victim”, she said in an interview with Vanity Fair. Rather than disappearing, she went to therapy, kept working, and shortly afterward starred in The Break-Up, a film she described years later as an almost cathartic experience.
Over time, Jennifer further solidified her career, also moved into producing, and ultimately built a life very different from the one the magazines had written for her. ✨ Because a breakup can become a global front-page story, but it doesn’t have to become your identity.