The sheer magnitude of global uncertainty, economic volatility and personal heartbreak were up for grabs when Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from her husband of two years, after at least 11 years together.
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Hollywood Life cites a source who describes Aniston as the possible victim of a cheating scandal.
It didn’t take long for the “poor Jen” narrative to return in triumph to claim the mantle of superiority that she “deserved” after being “left” by a man ELEVEN years ago.
“After years of speculation about whether she’d have children, sources say Jennifer Aniston is finally expecting!” the magazine revealed inside, according to a report by Gossip Cop on Tuesday. “She always got the sense that something would happen to them eventually”, a source told US Weekly. Just ’cause! It’s so ridiculous to drag her into it!
Justin Theroux and Jennifer Anniston at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Like what you see? “He still owns his place on Kauai’s north shore and feels like it’s paradise there, but she finds the place boring”. In June, after she was spotted on a beach with a slightly bloated stomach, the media enthusiastically pushed rumours that she was pregnant, which the public lapped up.
But, as Spredfast tells the Dot, “when we look at all conversation around #Brangelina, Jennifer Aniston actually has the highest share of voice”.
Beasley added: “Jose was japing around of course but he was probably thinking what everyone else was: who would possibly give up Jennifer Aniston?”.
All of this coverage is, quite simply, sexist. How we perceive and characterise women who are single/divorced/widowed/’childless” is highly driven by patriarchal notions of what constitutes happiness and feeling “complete’ for a woman.
“She will not be commenting, and asks that the family be given its privacy at this time”. The public intrusion is not only claustrophobic, but uncompassionate.
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This is an actress with a slew of Emmy, SAG, GLAAD, Golden Globe and People’s Choice awards and yet we’re still wasting time and column inches discussing why she hasn’t yet given birth and whether or not she’s still hung up on Brad Pitt, undermining both her incredible career and also her marriage to Justin Theroux.
