Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow still gossip about their mutual ex-lover Brad Pitt.
The Friends actress divulged the tidbit in her new Vanity Fair profile, telling the publication, ‘Ironically, I went to her and Brad’s engagement party.’
Jennifer, 56, was married to Brad, 61, from 2000-2005, and Gwyneth, 52, got engaged to the actor in 1996 but called off the wedding in 1997.
When asked by VF’s Julie Miller if they ‘ever talk about Pitt’, she replied: ‘Oh, of course. How can we not? We’re girls.’
The women met in 1996 when Jennifer’s Friends co-star David Schwimmer was working with Gwyneth on the rom-com The Pallbearer.
Despite having Brad in common, the LolaVie founder said she and the Goop creator mostly discuss wellness, sharing, ‘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?”‘
Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow still chat about their mutual ex-lover Brad Pitt; pictured in 2014
When asked by Vanity Fair’s Julie Miller if they ‘ever talk about Pitt’, she replied: ‘Oh, of course. How can we not? We’re girls’; Brad pictured in June
Gwyneth’s unauthorized biographer Amy Odell claims in her book, titled Gwyneth: A Biography, that Paltrow was ‘sad’ when Jennifer wed Brad.
She writes that the Academy Award winner got snappy with a reporter at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival when asked about her love life.
An excerpt shared with People reads: ‘The reporter then asked how she felt about Brad Pitt marrying Jennifer Aniston [in July of that year].
‘”Are you really asking me this question?” Gwyneth replied, her eyes now “daggers.”
‘”I can’t comment on this kind of thing.”
‘In reality, Gwyneth confided to friends that she’d felt sad when she learned they were getting married. (She was also fond of telling them that Brad “has terrible taste in women”).’
After dating Brad for three years, the blonde beauty called off the engagement in 1997 because at age 24, she felt she was too young for marriage. She went on to have a three-year relationship with Ben Affleck.
Asked who was better in bed by Call Her Daddy’s Alexandra Cooper in 2023, she answered: ‘That’s really hard. Because Brad was like the major chemistry love of [my] life at the time. And then Ben was like, technically excellent.’
Asked who she regarded as the better actor of the two, she said: ‘They’re both so talented. And Ben is a great writer and director.
‘But I guess I would probably have to say acting alone, Brad. Because if you think of all the different roles that he’s done.’
The Friends actress said in her interview, ‘Ironically, I went to her and Brad’s engagement party.’ Jennifer, 56, was married to Brad, 61, from 2000-2005
Then-husband and wife Brad and Jennifer pictured in Cannes, France in May 2004
Despite having Brad in common, the LolaVie founder said she and the Goop creator mostly discuss wellness; pictured with Kate Hudson
Years after her marriage to Brad ended, Jennifer went on to marry actor Justin Theroux. It lasted from 2015 until 2018.
In August 2023 she opened up about the long-term effect her parents Nancy Dow and John Aniston’s bitter 1980 divorce had on her love life.
Speaking with WSJ. Magazine two years ago, she admitted that her ‘difficult’ childhood experiences didn’t leave her desperate to say ‘I do.’
‘It was always a little bit difficult for me in relationships, I think, because I really was kind of alone,’ she explained at the time.
She admitted it felt ‘easier’ to just be alone.
‘I didn’t like the idea of sacrificing who you were or what you needed, so I didn’t really know how to do that,’ she said, before adding, ‘So it was almost easier to just be kind of solo. So I didn’t have any real training in that give-and-take.’
The Murder Mystery star recently found love again with hypnotist and wellness entrepreneur Jim Curtis.
