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Read on to explore the untold truth of Jennifer Aniston.

But Aniston was not as enamored with her hair as the rest of the world was.

Jennifer Aniston on the red carpet

It was also difficult to maintain.

In the interview, she shared her recollection of that earlier appearance.

“He said, ‘I do not want your heart broken.

Jennifer Aniston showing off The Rachel haircut

The rejection is brutal.

just, just, just don’t do that.

Become a lawyer,'” she recalled.

Jennifer Aniston on Howard Stern

Aniston ignored that advice, admitting that was her “one rebellion” against her parents.

“You know, you’re experimenting,” she explained.

“It was the ’80s and I looked like a goth nightmare.”

young Jennifer Aniston

“Big blousy blouses with a big chunky belt,” she said of her style during that decade.

“And remember the Western cowboy shoe?

I thought I was coo-ool.”

Jennifer Aniston

But there was one not-so-small problem, reportedEntertainment Weeklyin its excerpt of the book “GenerationFriends.”

Unwilling to take a risk, then-NBC president Warren Littlefield issued a two-word order: “Kill it.”

Aniston’s problematic show vanished, freeing her for “Friends.”

Jennifer Aniston

“I was like, ‘Oh, my God.

Is she about to be on our show?'”

While promoting her 2015 film “Cake,” she toldE!

Jennifer Aniston on Friends

News, “I basically have a real fear of going underwater.”

“I didn’t let go and my brother tried to [help me],” she recalled.

“So, I can’t go underwater and no one will believe me,” she admitted.

Jennifer Aniston and Vanessa Bayer on Saturday Night Live

“I honestly can’t.”

She further detailed her phobia in a red carpet interview withET Canada.

Aniston revealed she was terrified of falling into water, saying, “These are rational fears.”

Jennifer Aniston

Aniston admitted her relationship with her mother had been difficult for her entire life.

“She was very critical of me.

Because she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning.

Jennifer Aniston

I wasn’t,” Aniston toldThe Hollywood Reporter.

“She was also very unforgiving.

She would hold grudges that I just found so petty.”

Jennifer Aniston

Aniston likened it to “a punch in my stomach.”

As she told THR, all her life she had problems with retaining information.

“Now I had this great discovery,” she explained.

Jennifer Aniston

“I felt like all of my childhood trauma-dies, tragedies, dramas were explained.”

According to Aniston, the pair were channel-surfing when Theroux came across the film and insisted on watching.

“He was like, ‘No, no, no, no, this is happening.’

Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun

I just kept walking in and out, cringing.”

But in between those unions, Aniston dated musician John Mayer.

Finally, Aniston had enough.

Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer

After Pitt’smessy splitfrom Jolie, he and Aniston reconnected.

He was subsequently spotted at Aniston’s50th birthday partyin early 2019, and then ather holiday bashthat December.

After they were spotted chatting at the ceremony, Aniston joked about rumors the ex-spouses were resurrecting their romance.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston

“It’s hysterical,” she toldEntertainment Tonight.

“But what else are they gonna talk about?”

This time, Aniston wasn’t just acting, but was also executive producing.

Jennifer Aniston morning show

“It wasn’t really about TV versus film,” Aniston toldReuters.

“It was really the show.

It was the most rewarding thing I’ve done in years.”

Jennifer Aniston at 2021 Hollywood Reporter event

That was the case in the spring of 2022, when she revealed she had once struggled with sleepwalking.

Speaking withPeople, Aniston recalled the debilitating insomnia she endured in her 30s.

That acute level of sleep-deprivation led her to begin sleepwalking.

Jennifer Aniston onstage

“I’ve been woken up by house alarms going off that I’ve set off.”

That no longer happens anymore, she revealed, because she is in a better place regarding her insomnia.

“… that was when I was super sleep deprived,” she said.

Cast of Friends at HBO Max reunion special

“I don’t understand the disconnect right now, being bullied for wanting people not to be sick?

I mean, that’s what we’re talking about.”

For Aniston, the experience of reuniting with her former co-stars was something about which she had mixed feelings.

Jennifer Aniston at Morning Show press conference

What she hadn’t counted on was that painful memories would be exhumed along with the good ones.

Aniston recalled the experience: “… it was like, ‘Hi, past, remember me?

Remember how that sucked?

Jennifer Aniston at PaleyFest

In fact, it occasionally became too much for her.

“I had to walk out at certain points,” she confessed.

“I don’t know how they cut around it.”

Wonder Woman poster

As she thought it through, she explained, that notion began to appeal to her.

“Maybe I am just beginning.

So, I started to embrace this idea of being a ‘late bloomer’ …

of,justbeginning.”

I love the process.

There’s something about picking out fabrics and finishes that feeds my soul.”

For Jennifer Aniston, the role that got away was an iconic female superhero.

“I want to do more comedies,” she declared.

“I want to have some laughter.”