Did you know that Jennifer Aniston had to lose 13 kilos to be able to work in Hollywood?
The actress admits that before being signed in 'Friends' she ate too many smoothies and chips
Her role as Rachel of hers on 'Friends' catapulted her to fame making her a television icon whose style is still highly admired today (so much so that Ralph Lauren has just released a collection of her in her honor. ). However, her beginnings as an actress were not a bed of roses for Jennifer Aniston. This has been revealed in the book 'Generation Friends:
An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era', which has just been published to pay tribute to the mythical series on its 25th anniversary. Apparently her representative advised her to lose weight if she wanted to land a role in Hollywood. "Aniston was not fat at all," says writer Saul Austerlitz in his book. "Everyone could see how beautiful she was, but as she showed him the show she would be related to for life, the camera put on ten pounds."
"If she wanted to stay in Hollywood she had to lose at least 13 kilos," says Austerlitz, who says: "Los Angeles was a very hard place to be an actress, a very hard place to be a woman ... and her agent was already leaving. starting to bother. " Jennifer herself has spoken about it on occasion, assuring that at that time her diet was not the most appropriate and that she abused unhealthy foods. "She ate too many mayonnaise sandwiches. Mayonnaise on white bread ... the most delicious thing in the world," she said in an interview she gave a few years ago to Rolling Stone magazine. "My agent told me directly. The saddest thing in Hollywood, she was losing jobs because she was too heavy."
Like many actresses, Aniston has experienced firsthand the pressure of the industry to be thin, although she in her case said that her diet was "terrible", based on milk shakes and chips with salsa. "It was good to start paying attention to it," she confessed. After that, she got hired to play the character of Rachel on 'Friends', which ran from 1994 to 2004, and was the biggest role of her career.
At 50, Jennifer seems to have found the formula for her eternal youth and it is common to see her showing off her beauty and an enviable figure. Of course, nothing is by magic, but it is the result of perseverance, lots of pampering ... and a considerable financial investment. As she collects the book 'Friends with benefits', by Ian Halperin, the actress invests in her personal care about 220,000 euros a year to take care of her and her well-being, both inside and outside of her. In addition to his Yoga classes and his personal trainers (in which he spends around 3,500 euros per month), he also usually performs laser treatments to firm his skin, and spends a large part of his budget on cosmetics such as facial oils or serums ( about 1,400 euros / month).
