Editing Jennifer Aniston (section)

==Personal life==
Aniston practices [[Hatha yoga]] and [[Budokan karate]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Schnurr |first=Samantha |date=March 25, 2016 |title=Jennifer Aniston Dedicates Every Morning to Exercise |url=http://www.eonline.com/news/751703/jennifer-aniston-dedicates-every-morning-to-exercise |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123021527/https://www.eonline.com/news/751703/jennifer-aniston-dedicates-every-morning-to-exercise |archive-date=November 23, 2018 |access-date=May 8, 2016 |website=E Online}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Shah |first=Deepa |date=October 10, 2005 |title=Meditation that comes with a kick |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/wellbeing/diet/3324612/Meditation-that-comes-with-a-kick.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/wellbeing/diet/3324612/Meditation-that-comes-with-a-kick.html |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |access-date=February 7, 2016 |website=Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Gregoire |first=Carolyn |date=March 13, 2013 |title=10 Celebrities Leading The Wellness Revolution |url=https://huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/13/celebrity-health-10-stars_n_2861423.html#slide=2210511 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429223624/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/13/celebrity-health-10-stars_n_2861423.html#slide=2210511 |archive-date=April 29, 2014 |access-date=April 29, 2014 |website=[[HuffPost]] |quote=Jennifer Aniston is a long-time yoga practitioner – she's appeared in a ''Yogalosophy'' DVD and even given Oprah a yoga mat – and she's one of the most famous devotees of TM.}}</ref> In 2014, she spoke of her [[Transcendental Meditation technique|Transcendental Meditation]] practice.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 27, 2014 |title=Jennifer Aniston: Transcendental meditation keeps me looking good |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/story/jennifer-aniston-transcendental-meditation-keeps-me-looking-good_4127769 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429202607/http://www.contactmusic.com/story/jennifer-aniston-transcendental-meditation-keeps-me-looking-good_4127769 |archive-date=April 29, 2014 |access-date=April 29, 2014}}</ref> The following year, she said [[dyslexia]] had affected her education and self-esteem and that, after being diagnosed in her twenties, her outlook toward life changed. "I thought I wasn't smart. I just couldn't retain anything. Now I had this great discovery. I felt like all of my childhood trauma-dies, tragedies, dramas were explained."<ref name="The Hollywood Reporter">{{cite news |last=Galloway |first=Stephen |date=January 21, 2015 |title=Jennifer Aniston Reveals Struggles With Dyslexia, Anger; Shrugs Off Oscar Snub |url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/news/jennifer-aniston-reveals-struggles-dyslexia-764854 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150612223332/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jennifer-aniston-reveals-struggles-dyslexia-764854 |archive-date=June 12, 2015 |access-date=May 21, 2015 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>

Aniston donated to [[Barack Obama]]'s [[Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign|2008 presidential campaign]] and took part in a fundraiser for [[Hillary Clinton]] during her [[Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign|2016 presidential campaign]].<ref name="PEOPLE.com">{{Cite news |last=Orloff |first=Brian |date=August 6, 2007 |title=Aniston, Clooney Throw Money into Presidential Race |url=https://people.com/celebrity/aniston-clooney-throw-money-into-presidential-race/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914093424/http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2005/09/aniston200509 |archive-date=September 14, 2008 |access-date=May 29, 2018 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]]}}</ref><ref name="D'Zurilla">{{Cite web |last=D'Zurilla |first=Christie |date=August 24, 2016 |title=Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Aniston and more do lunch with Hillary Clinton |url=https://latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/gossip/la-et-mg-hillary-clinton-fundraiser-timberlake-biel-dicaprio-20160824-snap-htmlstory.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512181613/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/gossip/la-et-mg-hillary-clinton-fundraiser-timberlake-biel-dicaprio-20160824-snap-htmlstory.html |archive-date=May 12, 2018 |access-date=May 29, 2018 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref name="Yoon">{{Cite web |last=Yoon |first=Robert |date=April 23, 2007 |title=Celebrities ante up for Democratic campaigns |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/16/celebrity.contributions/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910104957/http://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/16/celebrity.contributions/index.html |archive-date=September 10, 2016 |access-date=May 29, 2018 |publisher=[[CNN]]}}</ref> She endorsed [[Joe Biden]] in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Trepany |first1=Charles |date=October 23, 2020 |title=Jennifer Aniston endorses Joe Biden, says it's 'not funny to vote for Kanye' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/10/23/jennifer-aniston-endorses-biden-calls-voting-kanye-not-funny/6012157002/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024033131/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/10/23/jennifer-aniston-endorses-biden-calls-voting-kanye-not-funny/6012157002/ |archive-date=October 24, 2020 |access-date=October 24, 2020 |work=[[USA Today]]}}</ref>

Aniston does not have any children. In November 2022, she appeared on the cover of ''[[Allure (magazine)|Allure]]'' for their final print issue.<ref name="IVF attempts">{{cite news |last1=Guy |first1=Jack |date=November 9, 2022 |title=Jennifer Aniston opens up about failed IVF and says she has 'zero regrets' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/entertainment/jennifer-aniston-allure-interview-scli-intl/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109233604/https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/entertainment/jennifer-aniston-allure-interview-scli-intl/index.html |archive-date=November 9, 2022 |access-date=November 10, 2022 |publisher=CNN}}</ref> In the accompanying interview, Aniston said she had undergone [[In vitro fertilisation|in vitro fertilization]] (IVF) to try to have children when she was in her thirties and forties, but the attempts did not result in any pregnancies.<ref name="IVF timeframe">{{cite news |last1=Harvey |first1=Josephine |date=November 9, 2022 |title=Jennifer Aniston Speaks About 'Challenging' IVF Journey For The First Time |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jennifer-aniston-ivf_n_636bbdf8e4b03438613ee207 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109200356/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jennifer-aniston-ivf_n_636bbdf8e4b03438613ee207 |archive-date=November 9, 2022 |access-date=November 10, 2022 |publisher=HuffPost}}</ref> She said, "All the years and years and years of speculation... It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it."<ref name="IVF attempts" /> In July 2024, after comments about "childless cat ladies" that Republican vice presidential nominee [[JD Vance]] made in 2021 went viral, Aniston stated on social media that:

{{blockquote|All I can say is… Mr. Vance, I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children of her own one day (...) I hope she will not need to turn to IVF as a second option. Because you are trying to take that away from her, too.<ref name="JD Vance comments">{{cite news |last1=Wagmeister |first1=Elizabeth |title=Jennifer Aniston criticizes JD Vance for 'childless cat ladies' remarks: 'I pray that your daughter is fortunate enough to bear children'
|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/25/entertainment/jennifer-aniston-jd-vance/index.html |access-date=July 25, 2024 |publisher=CNN |date=July 25, 2024}}</ref>}}

In 2023, she said [[Adam Sandler]]'s family sent her flowers every year on Mother's Day.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 23, 2023 |title=Jennifer Aniston says Adam and Jackie Sandler send her flowers every Mother's Day |url=https://nypost.com/2023/08/23/jennifer-aniston-says-adam-and-jackie-sandler-send-her-flowers-every-mothers-day/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230826032324/https://nypost.com/2023/08/23/jennifer-aniston-says-adam-and-jackie-sandler-send-her-flowers-every-mothers-day/ |archive-date=August 26, 2023 |access-date=September 19, 2023 |publisher=New York Post}}</ref>

===Relationships===
Aniston met [[Brad Pitt]] in 1998, and their relationship was highly publicized.<ref name="People - Bio">{{cite web |title=Jennifer Aniston Biography |url=http://www.people.com/people/jennifer_aniston/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604174037/http://www.people.com/people/jennifer_aniston/biography |archive-date=June 4, 2008 |access-date=May 21, 2008 |work=People}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jennifer Aniston Biography |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800021397/bio |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110925232834/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800021397/bio |archive-date=September 25, 2011 |access-date=May 21, 2008 |publisher=Yahoo!}}</ref> After two years of dating, they married on July 29, 2000, in a lavish [[Malibu, California|Malibu]], California, wedding. For a few years, their marriage was considered a rare [[Hollywood marriage|Hollywood]] success.<ref name="People-Bio" /> On January 7, 2005, they announced their separation,<ref>{{cite web |date=January 7, 2005 |title=Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt Separate |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1015778,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709064454/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1015778,00.html |archive-date=July 9, 2008 |access-date=August 8, 2008 |work=People}}</ref> and finalized their divorce on October 2.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kappes |first=Serena |date=September 30, 2005 |title=Brad & Jen Finalize Divorce |url=https://people.com/celebrity/week-ahead-brad-jen-finalize-divorce/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170709/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1112350,00.html |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |access-date=May 21, 2008 |work=People}}</ref> During their divorce proceedings, news media speculated that Pitt had been unfaithful to Aniston with his ''[[Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)|Mr. & Mrs. Smith]]'' co-star [[Angelina Jolie]], with whom he began a relationship soon after the split.<ref name="movies.nytimes.com">{{cite news |author=Cammila Albertson |date=2009 |title=Jennifer Aniston&nbsp;– Biography&nbsp;– Movies & TV |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/1831/Jennifer-Aniston/biography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212033539/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1831/Jennifer-Aniston/biography |archive-date=February 12, 2009 |access-date=June 23, 2010 |work=[[The New York Times]] |department=Movies & TV Dept.}}</ref> In the months following, the public's reaction towards the divorce played out as "Team Aniston" and "Team Jolie" T-shirts appeared throughout the country.<ref name="movies.nytimes.com" /> In 2015, Aniston said, "Nobody did anything wrong... It was just like, sometimes things [happen]."<ref name="The Hollywood Reporter" />

In 2005, amid reports that their divorce was due to Aniston's refusal to have children with Pitt, Aniston said, "I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will! ... I would never give up that experience for a career." 

Aniston said the divorce prompted her to reach out to her mother, Nancy, from whom she had been estranged for nearly a decade. Nancy had talked about her daughter on a television show and written ''From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir'' (1999).<ref>{{cite magazine |date=September 2005 |title=The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2005/09/aniston200509 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914093424/http://www.vanityfair.com/fame/features/2005/09/aniston200509 |archive-date=September 14, 2008 |access-date=August 8, 2008 |magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Laurence |first=Charles |date=December 15, 2006 |title=Not even friends... |url=http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0001/np00010b.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429095922/http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0001/np00010b.htm |archive-date=April 29, 2018 |access-date=August 27, 2007 |website=Los&nbsp;Angeles National Post}}</ref> 

In 2006, Aniston said she had been devastated by the death of her longtime therapist, whom she credited for helping make her separation from Pitt easier.<ref name="vogue" /> She said she did not regret her relationship with Pitt, describing it as "very intense" and "a beautiful, complicated relationship".<ref name="marriager">{{cite web |title=Aniston just wants to make Friends with Pitt |url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C19%5Cstory_19-6-2006_pg9_1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723191146/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C06%5C19%5Cstory_19-6-2006_pg9_1 |archive-date=July 23, 2012 |access-date=June 18, 2006 |work=Daily Times}}</ref>

Aniston began a relationship with actor, director, and screenwriter [[Justin Theroux]] in May 2011. The following January, they purchased a home in the [[Bel Air, Los Angeles|Bel Air]] neighborhood of Los Angeles for roughly $22&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news |last=Schuker |first=Lauren |date=January 24, 2012 |title=Aniston and Theroux to Buy in Bel-Air |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2012/01/24/aniston-and-theroux-to-buy-in-bel-air/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612214106/https://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2012/01/24/aniston-and-theroux-to-buy-in-bel-air/ |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |access-date=January 24, 2012 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]}}</ref> They became engaged on August 10, 2012<ref>{{cite web |last=Jordan |first=Julie |date=August 12, 2012 |title=Jennifer Aniston Is Engaged to Justin Theroux! |url=https://people.com/celebrity/jennifer-aniston-justin-theroux-engaged/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813184826/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20620514,00.html |archive-date=August 13, 2012 |access-date=August 12, 2012 |work=People}}</ref> and had a non-legally binding{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}} wedding ceremony on August 5, 2015, at their estate.<ref name="jennifer">{{cite news |last=Zauzmer |first=Emily |date=August 6, 2015 |title=Jennifer Aniston And Justin Theroux Are Married! |url=http://www.people.com/article/jennifer-aniston-justin-theroux-married-wedding-bel-air-home |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127121633/https://people.com/article/jennifer-aniston-justin-theroux-married-wedding-bel-air-home |archive-date=January 27, 2019 |access-date=May 21, 2015 |work=People}}</ref> They separated at the end of 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kohen |first=Sandy |date=February 15, 2018 |title=Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux announce separation |url=https://apnews.com/29ef88e81f554ac8a38a763454350cf3 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190315201149/https://apnews.com/29ef88e81f554ac8a38a763454350cf3 |archive-date=March 15, 2019 |access-date=March 2, 2018 |work=Associated Press |quote=Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are separating after two and a half years of marriage. ... Aniston and Theroux were engaged in August of 2012 and married in August of 2015.}}</ref>