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Jennifer Aniston's traumatic childhood details unveiled
Friends star Jennifer Aniston's heartbreaking secret comes to light
Jennifer Aniston, Hollywood star, can be one of the most loved and strong Hollywood actresses, but behind a lovely smile, there was a heartbreak in her childhood.
Jennifer was only nine years old when her parents (actor John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow) divorced in 1980. What seemed to be an ordinary family on the surface immediately collapsed with young Jennifer being left to deal with abandonment and confusion.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the 56-year-old has frequently said that the divorce had been a traumatic and destabilising event that influenced her emotional universe.
Just Go With It star disclosed that the critical nature of her mother and the abrupt departure of her father had a significant impact on her as she became unable to trust and connect with people in the future.
Moreover, She said that my mom was overly judgemental, and it was several years before she could forgive and heal, as she told The Hollywood Reporter.
As Vogue claims, therapy and self-reflection helped the actress, finally, to break the emotional cycle that the marriage of her parents had created.
Jennifer also divulged in a 2022 interview with Allure that she has found peace and does not blame her parents anymore, but sees them as two people who did what they could.
In spite of the sufferings, the quest of Aniston turned out to be one of the strength and change. Her early trauma, she has used to create her compassion and her pain to the stage in Friends, The Morning Show, and other shows, she has taken brutality and turned it into a song of emotional honesty.
According to Vanity Fair, Jennifer Aniston reckons that her childhood made her strong. "It turned me into what I am, she said — a woman who still, with all the marks of her past, radiates grace and forgiveness and quiet strength."