JENNIFER ANISTON COVERS "VANITY FAIR" MAGAZINE "ZEN AND THE ART OF BEING JENNIFER ANISTON"

 Jennifer Aniston makes return to the "Vanity Fair" magazine.  This is her first time being photographed and interview by the magazine since her divorce from "Brad Pitt" back in 2005.  She does talk about him, being friends with one of his exes, being famous and of course the death of "Matthew Perry". 

Here is what she had to share:

BEING FAMOUS: She views paparazzi when she’s working as “almost an embarrassment, to be honest.” Aniston’s celebrity, as gravity-pulling as it can be, has never defined her: “I’ve always been more into metaphysical things and ‘What if there’s something bigger out there than all of us?’ ” She’s learned not to put everything at the altar of fame. “It’s not real,” she tells me. “My interests are other than that.” 

Her Girlfriends: “That opened me up to the importance of women in each other’s lives and how important it is to support and hold each other up when so many want to tear each other down.”

Being Friends with Gywneth Paltrow : While discussing the genesis of her and Paltrow’s relationship, Aniston says, “Ironically, I went to her and Brad’s engagement party,” meaning Pitt, the man who proposed to them both. Aniston and Paltrow’s friendship outlasted both women’s Pitt chapters, but I can’t help but ask, do they ever talk about Pitt? “Oh, of course… How can we not? We’re girls.” But they trade wellness intel more than gossip. “We’re always swapping advice—‘What are you doing for this? What are you doing for that? Do you have a new doctor for that?’ ”

2005 VF profile: “I haven’t looked at that article in forever. I just remember the experience of doing it—which was kind of jarring. It was also such a vulnerable time. But yeah, that was one for the memoirs.” (She’ll write a memoir, she says, “when I have more to memoir.”) “Journalism back then felt more like a form of a sport. There’s obviously some PTSD we all have, which is why these scare me”—she means interviews—“How are they going to misinterpret my words or take something out of context? And one line nowadays…”

The Love triangle: Aniston calls that era of her tabloid life “the love triangle” and details her survival approach: “Just pick yourself up by the bootstraps and keep on walking, girl…. It was such juicy reading for people. If they didn’t have their soap operas, they had their tabloids. It’s a shame that it had to happen, but it happened. And boy did I take it personally. They were sort of building us up and then tearing you down… I didn’t have a strong enough constitution to not get affected by it. We’re human beings, even though some people don’t want to believe we are. They think, You signed up for it, so you take it. But we really didn’t sign up for that.”

‘90s fashion: “I celebrate the ’90s coming back. Except for those narrow sunglasses and the really thin eyebrows. I love vintage clothes from the decade. They fit me so well.”

Being A nepo baby: Her father did not find steady onscreen success until the ’80s. At times he couldn’t pay the mortgage without help, according to the 1999 memoir by Aniston’s mother. While discussing her good fortune, Aniston says, “Listen, I am so grateful. I came from nothing. We were broke. There’s no nepo baby here.”

Mourning Matthew Perry “We did everything we could when we could… But it almost felt like we’d been mourning Matthew for a long time because his battle with that disease was a really hard one for him to fight. As hard as it was for all of us and for the fans, there’s a part of me that thinks this is better. I’m glad he’s out of that pain.”