Jennifer Aniston's "toxic" relationship with her mother
The actress of 'Friends' has been honest in a recent interview when talking about the ordeal that was her childhood and adolescence next to a strict and victimizing mother who, according to her story, was trying to sink her self-esteem.
Jennifer Aniston is the daughter of a stunning model who was also an actress. Nancy Dow starred in television shows like 'The Wild Wild West' or 'The Beverly Hillbillies' and her level of demand for little Jen was always high.
The protagonist of one of the most famous sitcoms in the world calls her mother "relentless" and defines her as a person who taught her what she did not want to be in her life, that is, as a bad example of her.
Nancy passed away in 2016 at the age of 79 after suffering two strokes in the previous years, and now that time has passed, Aniston finds it hard to come clean about her toxic relationship with her.
In fact, Jennifer and her father spent ten years without speaking to each other and did not reconcile until 2005, when she separated from Brad Pitt. In the 90s, when Aniston was successful as an actress, she never had contact with her mother and neither did her support, in fact, she did not even invite her to her wedding with Brad since Nancy had published some memoirs that sold great and that According to Jen herself, they embarrassed her by talking about her private things.
In those years of success and maximum media exposure for embodying Rachel in 'Friends', the artist was tabloid meat and now she confesses that if she did not collapse, it was because of the past sticks lived in her own house under a huge Pressure.
"I grew up watching someone, my mother, settle comfortably into a victim state, and I didn't like how she saw herself." Far from victimizing herself and letting the yellow press get her down, she decided to surround herself with what she calls "a blessing of support" that is "many positive and highly evolved people around me."
Contrary to what she saw at home and far from imitating Nancy's toxic behavior, Jen was clear from a young age "I knew that person was giving me an example of what I would never want to be and, in fact, never will be" , sentence convinced at 52 years old.
Even when resuming the relationship with Dow in one of Aniston's toughest moments, the actress assures that "her victimhood eroded her interior, her soul" but that, despite this, when she left him with Pitt she did not collapse in front of the world because he had understood that "everything is relative" and thought "Either I gave up and lived hidden under my sheets or went out to find a creative outlet to be able to prosper... and that's what I did".
The irony of the matter is that that output was a movie called 'The Break-Up'. While Aniston struggled to improve herself professionally at that delicate moment, her mother continued to be critical of her. "She was always critical of me, because she was a model, beautiful, dazzling... and I was not."
In fact, last year in another interview she confessed that “I did not turn out the model girl that she expected. I just wanted to be loved by a mother who was too busy with things that didn't matter."
And in Jen's eyes not only beauty differentiated them but "My mother held grudges inside her for things that I found really insignificant." Despite this tumultuous relationship between the two, Aniston took advantage of the "anti-example" that her mother supposed and assures that she was inspired by her for her character of Rosie, a former beauty pageant queen with a daughter, who embodies in the film of Netflix 'Dumplin'.
Aniston is one of the Hollywood celebrities who is respected for her professional talent and, although her romantic relationships are known, she never puts on shows or scandals that place her in the middle of controversy so, as she says, everything it is learned.
She has been through several therapists since she was 9 years old, when her father left her mother to go with another woman, an event that traumatized her for a long time, but she has always managed her mental health with a dignity and privacy that, even today, Today, they are noteworthy.
