Let us leave Jennifer Aniston out of Brangelina talks
We all know the recent development in the lives of our favorite Hollywood stars, thanks to social media. Angelina Jolie has reportedly filed for divorce from Brad Pitt after two years of marriage, a decade of dating and six children together.
The internet lost it. The celebrity news sites covered it. And Jennifer Aniston was, of course, brought into the fold.
“But why” asks an article by Leigh Bliclkey in The Huffington Post on Tuesday.
Why do we feel the need to loop Aniston into every facet of Pitt and Jolie’s history? Why does she still need to be a part of the naturally undesired conversation? She’s happily married to Theroux, she has a successful career of her own, and she’s proud of who she is and her personal achievements ― yes, despite not being a mother.
She is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. People magazine named Aniston "The Most Beautiful Woman" in 2004 and 2016, and Men's Health magazine voted her the "Sexiest Woman of All Time" in 2011, according to Wikipedia.
But somehow still her achievements fall short in our eyes. The fact that her ex husband chose someone else over her and that she is not a mother are still two of the criteria we judge her in.
She is a human being beyond her celebrity status who probably doesn’t want to be the topic of lunch table gossips, ‘the business of lies’ as she referred to in an interview with The HuffPost in July.
The stories about her divorce with Brad Pitt in 2005 and his alleged affair with Angelina in 2003 was also never hidden, again thanks to social media.
Despite all that news specifically about Pitt, Jolie and their family, Aniston was always a part of the conversation. Nearly 10 years after her split with Pitt, media outlets were still talking about their past when Pitt proposed to Jolie in 2012. (What does Jen think? Is she heartbroken? Will she ever be as happy as they are?) And when they got married in 2014, Aniston had to go into hiding, despite the fact that she was happily engaged to her now husband, Justin Theroux, says the article in HuffPost.
The thing is, celebrities experience pain, insecurity, guilt, happiness, sadness. They have feelings, they have emotions, just like the rest of us. So why do we feel the need to bring them down, or bring someone like Aniston into an equation that doesn’t involve her anymore?
The fact of the matter is, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are two people, with six children, getting a divorce. Leigh Bliclkey ends her article urging people and social media to focus on what’s important, and that is compassion.
Source: The Huffington Post