Jennifer Aniston: "It's My Time"

Tells Harry Smith, "I'm Starting To Live; It's Good"

(CBS)  Jennifer Aniston may just be Hollywood's hottest celebrity.

Aniston is the subject of articles in numerous magazines -- GQ and Vogue, among them, not to mention pieces in seemingly countless tabloids.

She also stars with Owen Wilson in "Marley and Me," a touching romantic comedy based on John Grogan’s best-seller, about a young couple who buys a very behavior-challenged dog, and where life leads them. The movie opens nationwide Christmas Day.

Oh -- and did we mention that Aniston poses all-but-nude -- wearing only a tie -- for GQ's cover?

Aniston, 39, told Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith Friday all the attention tends to become a blur, as her picture leaps out at her from newsstands everywhere.

"It's funny," she explained. "I mean, I honestly see it as a different person. It's just -- well, because the (tabloid) headlines are just outrageous, so you usually get a kick out of that. But you just kind of go -- you try to walk past it as fast as you possibly can, honestly."

As onlookers on the street gawked at Aniston through the studio window, Smith remarked about how difficult it must be to have fans notice her everywhere.

"It's amazing how you can sort of start to tune them out," Aniston replied."

Smith said he "gets the sense" it's simply her time, and Aniston agreed, observing, "It's my time. I feel just really -- I mean, I just feel like, you know, every woman that's ever said -- or man -- that's said it just gets better. I just agree. I just wish we could have -- it's the thing: You don't know as much as you know in your 20s as you do in your 30s as you do when you are..."

Smith took it further, paraphrasing a line in the Bernard Malamud novel, "The Natural," that says, 'We live two lives: one we learn with, and the other we live with.' "So, you may be in the 'live with' one," Smith suggested.

"I'm startin' to live. It's good!" Aniston responded.

Turning to "Marley and Me," Aniston said it "packs a punch," evoking a full range of emotions as it follows a newlywed couple over 15 years, beginning as a light film, then yanking at the heart.

She says it tells the couple's story "from that early stage of being married and excited and your careers and futures and dreams are right ahead of you, and then, just sort of -- life!"

But in it, "I get to get my hands a little dirty. And it was also ... so nice to sort of not be in a -- your normal romantic comedy, where it's about getting the guy or getting the girl. This sort of starts as a -- at the end when they walk off into the sunset, and you get to actually tell the story."

Aniston says she saw "Marley and Me" with an audience at its premiere in Los Angeles last week and heard "audible moans and snorts" from people getting choked up."

She and Wilson "had a great time (working together). It was easy from the minute we met. We just had that, you know, very similar sensibilities. We worked very similarly. We kind of -- he's just so good."

[cosmicjane]

I can't believe all the haters towards a woman whose just trying to live her life on her terms. So she's not your idea, of the ideal cup of tea, ok, move on, why sprew venom, for what reason? She loves what she does and she makes great money, good for her, she loves yoga and loves clothes, not too different from the average woman out there her age. Let the brandelinas have their day too..Ive learned the only people who waste time putting down others, feel inferior themselves and need some therapy..really get some!

[vansancpb]

You have to feel some sympathy for someone who choses to live in the public eye, because, sorry folks if you''re a celebrity, it comes with the teritory. So, when not so good things happen to you in the public eye, you have a choice, either take the high road, or sling it with the tabloids. I used to really like Jennifer, I felt bad for her when Brad and Angelina fell "in love" and she was tossed. She could not have been completely clueless to what was going on, most people who are being cheated on have a funny feeling. Now she''s trying to get on with her "life". Good for her, however, it feels very fake and staged. I don''t feel sorry for her anymore. There is something now that comes off as not being real, although I''m not sure any celebrity is being real when their "on". And for the record, I don''t think Brad and Angelina''s life is all that great either. They are all human, and are not better than anyone else.

[notopennshut]

It says all when one has to resort to stripping to make the news. She can''t let go of the fact that Pitt left someone with no soul regardless of how she wants to display her body. Harping on Angie and Brad is a sign of desperation and jealousy. She should go and get a life - a real one, instead of living in the fantasy of what might have been. Too late, and time to leave the happy family alone.

[michigal1]

Jennifer Aniston is hot. Anyone who doesn''t think so is blind. Really really blind. She has the best hair, legs and body in Hollywood. She''s smart and funny. If it''s now her ''time'', then she deserves every second of it. She handled Brad''s very public affair with grace and class unlike Angelina Jolie who chooses to throw it in Jen''s face every chance she gets not to mention the layout both her and Brad did in ''W'' Magazine shortly after the affair became public. To say it was in bad taste is the understatement of the year. Yes, Jen, Brad is indeed ''missing a sensitivity chip''. You go girl!!

Where were you in your early twenties? The window is closing fast on this 39 year old.

[spiritwalk]

The only thing more pathetic than Jennifer Aniston telling us "it''''s her time", is anyone actually pathetic enough to believe her. Or care.
Posted by Centerfall94
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The words are not ''pathetic'' nor ''care". It is ''dangerous'' and ''enabling''.
Like Britney Spears this type of caring about celebrities enables and encourages them to engage in behavior that we would find upsetting in others.
Her husband left her for another woman. Which is rotten. However, she continues to call Brad Pitt''s mother and him as well. They have no childen together so there is really no reason to still be doing this years after the breakup. The "caring" fans "side" with her and against Jolie for finding this "disturbing".
If they were not celebrities you would be seeing this much differently. If Anistion were your sister you would be trying to get her to therapy and if Jolie was your sister you would be advising her to do something about what appears to be "stalking behavior".
As long as Aniston keeps seeing "sympathetic" stories about her she is in danger of losing touch with reality and ending up a 400 pound Elvis dead on the bathroom floor or a freaky Michael Jackson in Neverland.

[whitemale08]

You were never ''hot'' and never will be.

All that noise from the media that you''re ''hot'' was just made-up krap.

I wouldn''t approach you in a club let alone buy a magazine that has in there butt naked.

You are not Sally Fields who I think no matter how old she is, she will allways look ''hot'' because that ''cute-sl*t'' look she has....mmhhmmmhmm.

Sally Fields from Smokey and the Bandit, now that''s ''HOT''!

[thedigitaldi]

I''ve enjoyed Aniston''s performances over the years, but was very unimpressed with her appearances on The Early Show - noted above - and on Letterman. She was phenomenally inarticulate, barely able to string together a coherent sentence. Is this normal or was she just over-tired?

[sinibaldi1]

Little child in London.

There''s the
light of
a delicate child
in the country,
near a grand
piano; I wait for
the side of
a weeping, and
I love you,
my care, while
the plain disappears...

Francesco Sinibaldi

[rangerdahl]

she''s pretty and from all accounts a good person...lighten up. There are a lot more repulsive stars out there, Sean Penn comes to mind.

[erb0087]

"Who is Jennifer Angniston?"
Posted by HETUP at 08:32 AM : Dec 21, 2008

You mean Jennifer Aniston?

Someone with better cleavage than you.

[hetup-2009]

Who is Jennifer Angniston?

[formrusmcsgt]

I have never seen what others obviously see in Anniston. Not much of an actress in my book...

Ditto Jolie and Jennifer Lopez.

There are some wonderful actresses out there, but these three make it only on looks from where I sit.

[noirceur]

Zzzzzzzzz!

[agt-r]

That woman is an airhead! She''ll do ANYTHING for publicity! She''s not a good actress and although she may have a great publicist to get her the right interviews and display her cute face all over, that does not make her a better actress. What she doesn''t realize is that, unlike Merryl Streep, who because of her talent has been able to succeed even after passing her youth, Jennifer Anniston will soon be old and will have wasted her entire life for nothing.

[centerfall94]

The only thing more pathetic than Jennifer Aniston telling us "it''s her time", is anyone actually pathetic enough to believe her. Or care.

[donh2351]

Harry Smith is an idiot. Like her or not, Jennifer Anniston was there to promote a movie and he made an *** of himself and embarrassed her instead. Jesus, what a putz. He should have saved his embarassing, high school babbling for off screen. It puts him right up there with the Rosie Odonnel/Tom Selleck interview. He owes her a public apology.

[redhedgrl1]

wow biddy...your name says it all!

[vcofreason]

Beautiful women cause extreme jealousy among other women. Exponentially so if they are successful as well. Good luck beautiful Goddess! Dan

Posted by DDouville at 09:11 AM

If you think that society''s view of beautiful is what makes someone beautiful, then I feel sorry for you. I saw remarkable beauty in Sister Teresa; Maya Angelou is breakthtakingly beautiful.

How sad that some people look at beauty by how much you pay to get your hair and makeup done and how big the silicone bags are you have sewn into your torso. Blech. I am far from jealous of her.

[hotwitch]

Jennifer Aniston is attractive in the sense that middle aged women and homosexual men find her "beautiful" The rest of us find her only aging and dull. What could any aging actress do or say that would make us pay any attention to her, and isn''t the act of trying as much the antithesis of "hot" ?