In the spring of 2005, Jennifer Aniston<\/strong><\/a> filed to divorce Brad Pitt<\/strong> after nearly five years of marriage. \u201cThere are many stages of grief,\u201d Jen told Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a> weeks before her first divorce was finalized. \u201cIt\u2019s sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open \u2026 when you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.\u201d<\/p>\n Going through such a public split was a trial rife with \u201canger,\u201d \u201churt\u201d and \u201cembarrassment,\u201d admitted the Friends star, who tried \u201creally hard to rise above it.\u201d<\/p>\n And she did. A decade later, she wed Justin Theroux<\/strong>, 53. But in 2017, they, too, went their separate ways, though their breakup<\/a> was far less dramatic, with Justin telling The New York Times<\/em> it was \u201cgentle,\u201d \u201camicable\u201d and \u201cas painless as it could be.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking back, Jen \u201creadily admits to friends she\u2019s been unlucky in love<\/a>,\u201d a source exclusively tells Life & Style<\/em>.<\/p>\n However, she doesn\u2019t see her biggest breakups as failures.<\/p>\n \u201cMy marriages, they\u2019ve been very successful,\u201d she insisted to ELLE<\/em> in 2018. \u201cWhen they came to an end, it was a choice that was made because we chose to be happy, and sometimes happiness didn\u2019t exist within that arrangement anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n Since then, Life & Style<\/em>\u2019s source confirms that Jen\u2019s healed, moved on \u201cand hasn\u2019t given up on finding love again\u201d at age 56. That hope endures, explains the source, \u201cbecause she\u2019s made peace with her past.\u201d<\/p>\n The Morning Show<\/em> star isn\u2019t holding grudges. In fact, just the opposite.<\/p>\n \u201cBrad and I are buddies,\u201d she told radio host Howard Stern<\/strong> in 2021. \u201cWe\u2019re friends and we speak.\u201d<\/p>\n She and Justin have also remained pals. When the Running Point<\/em> actor married Gilded Age<\/em> actress Nicole Brydon Bloom<\/strong>, 31, in Mexico in March, \u201cJennifer was one of the first ones to congratulate Justin,\u201d an insider revealed to the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/em> \u201cShe is happy for him.\u201d<\/p>\n Indeed, Life & Style<\/em>\u2019s source says Jen only wants joy for Justin and Brad, 61, whose divorce from Angelina, 49, was finalized last year after eight years of bitter fighting; he\u2019s currently dating 30-something Ines de Ramon<\/strong>, a jewelry executive.<\/p>\n \u201cJen has zero ill will and is genuinely thrilled for their successes in love and in Hollywood,\u201d insists the source. \u201cShe also thinks, if they can move on, why can\u2019t she?\u201d<\/p>\n She wasn\u2019t always sure she should \u2014 or could.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t want to for a long time, and I loved really being my own woman without being a part of a couple,\u201d Jen told podcaster Bruce Bozzi<\/strong> in 2021. That\u2019s shifted, she added: \u201cI\u2019m ready to share myself with another.\u201d<\/p>\n She also held back in part, says the source, \u201cbecause she felt maybe she just wasn\u2019t cut out for long-term relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, thanks to a great support system of friends<\/a>, including Courteney Cox<\/strong> and Sandra Bullock<\/strong>, both 60, and \u201ca lot of therapy,\u201d says the source, \u201cshe\u2019s never felt more confident.\u201d<\/p>\n That finally came in her 50s.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel the best in who I am today, better than I ever did in my 20s or 30s even, or my mid-40s,\u201d she shared with Allure<\/em><\/a> a few years ago, explaining that she\u2019s actually learned to be grateful for the \u201creally hard\u201d stuff she went through over the last few decades, including the \u201cchallenging road\u201d of trying and failing to get pregnant.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for going through that, I would\u2019ve never become who I was meant to be,\u201d Jen said. \u201cI would\u2019ve been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were. And now, I don\u2019t f\u2014ing care.\u201d<\/p>\n Jen is deeply \u201ccontent,\u201d says the source: \u201cBut she would like to fall in love again.\u201d<\/p>\n Though she\u2019s famously dismissed using dating apps, \u201cher friends are always scoping out potential guys for her. They know what she likes \u2014 and what she needs.\u201d<\/p>\n And Jen, adds the source, \u201cis open to it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
A few years later, he and Angelina Jolie<\/strong> confirmed widespread speculation they\u2019d had an affair while he was still with Jen, confessing \u2014 him to Rolling Stone<\/em>, her to The New York Times<\/em> \u2014 they \u201cfell in love\u201d while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith<\/em> in 2004.<\/p>\nJennifer Aniston\u2019s Good Vibes<\/h2>\n
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