Jennifer Aniston's Take on Brad Pitt Marriage — 'I Needed Therapy'
After more than a decade of divorcing Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston talks about how she wishes she would have gone to therapy in her thirties. The 44-year-old actress, who lets "We're the Millers" co-star Jason Sudeikis interview her for the September issue of Glamour, talks about finding love, choosing happiness and the advice she'd give her younger self.
If Aniston could go back in time in her thirties, she'd do a few things differently during her five-year marriage to Brad Pitt. "Go to therapy. Clean up all of the s--t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self," the actress confessed to Sudeikis.
"You can undo a lot of things [as you get older]," the actress says. "If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel. Like with friends who refuse to get happy, who refuse to rise above the discomfort of where they're at."
At a point, she told Sudeikis, who is engaged to Olivia Wilde, "you actually deserve to have a family. And once you meet yourself, and truly love yourself, then you attract that. And look -- I mean, the two of us have found these two, beautiful, loving, open people."
"We have a similar timeline," Sudeikis confessed to Aniston about her relationship with Wilde. "We both went through the same thing. I mean, I would hear you talk about [guys you were dating], and I'd be like, 'Oh, f--k. I don't want to be like that to somebody else."
"Yeah. Yeah. And look how far we've come!" the former "Friends" star said. "High five!"
Talking about her twenties, the actress said that she did "OK" and would advise the teenage Jennifer "Don't try so hard. Pay attention. Do your homework. Go to class."
The actress also talked about her maternal instincts and said her partner Theroux, 41, "has extremely amazing paternal instincts. Because [growing up] he had to sort of become the parent. I think when you have to become the parent when you're a younger person, you learn those instincts."
The September issue of Glamour hits newsstands Aug. 6. "We're the Millers" is directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, and is about a pot dealer (Sudeikis) who puts together a fake family as he attempts to smuggle a large shipment of marijuana across the Mexican border into America.
Jennifer, who plays a stripper in the film opposite Sudeikis, bares almost all while performing a strip tease. Check out her trailer here.