7 things you probably didn’t know about Jennifer Aniston: her therapist died in the middle of divorcing Brad Pitt, she turned down SNL for Friends – and she hated her famous Rachel haircut
- According to Adam Sandler, Aniston was offered a part in Saturday Night Live but turned it down to star in Friends alongside Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc et al
- Despite the ‘Rachel haircut’ sparking a global trend, Aniston later admitted she thought the Chris McMillan creation was the ‘ugliest haircut [she’d] ever seen’
Here are seven things you probably didn’t know about Aniston …
1. Both her parents were actors, but they didn’t encourage her to join the industry
Her father John Aniston starred on Days of Our Lives (just like Joey!), and her mother, Nancy Dow, starred on 1960s shows like The Beverly Hillbillies and The Wild Wild West.
But they weren’t exactly receptive to their daughter following in their footsteps.
In 2015, Aniston told Collider that although she had a love for the theatre growing up in New York, her parents were pretty strict on her time in front of the television.
“I was hell-bent because my dad was just begging me not to be in the industry. He said, ‘I do not want your heart broken. The rejection is brutal. Please, please, please don’t do that. Become a lawyer,’” she said. “That was my one rebellion. I was hoping that I was going to make it so that I could prove him wrong.”
2. She had unglamorous plenty of jobs before landing her first acting gigs
