Actor Jennifer Aniston covers the September 2025 issue of Vanity Fair [IG], sitting for a major interview with Julie Miller 20 years after her divorce from Brad Pitt. The couple’s storybook marriage dissolved before American eyes in 2005 as Pitt lost his mind over Angelina Jolie. As many men would, which is why Aniston’s fans have hated Jolie for two decades.

The ‘Morning Show’ [ Apple TV+ ] star has “overcome years of tabloid absurdity” and is now “channeling a quiet power in her new era.”

Aniston is styled by Paul Cavaco in Balenciaga, Gucci, Loro Piana, Rabanne, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Schiaparelli and more. The actor wears Bulgari High Jewelry in images by Norman Jean Roy [IG]. / Hair by Chris McMillan; makeup by Angela Levin

Aniston’s upset in 2005 included her major declaration in the Leslie Bennetts interview ‘The Unsinkable Jennifer Aniston’ also for Vanity Fair’s September issue:

A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children. That really pissed me off. I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will! I want to have it all”

Two decades later Anniston is more reflective on her own human gifts and those she receives from her closest friends. In her own words, Jennifer Aniston does not “have it all”. But the sanctuary of her private life is abundant.

Not that many people in Hollywood are known for their deeply personal relationships with their friends network. Aniston is a major exception.

Those treasured friends are both men and women — often married to each other. A major theme in the interview — which isn’t the headline in People or other media, is the close network of women who comprise Aniston’s professional as well as her personal network.

She who is guided by amethyst, rose quartz and white jade lives a serene life. At least this is her recommendation to writer Miller, as she departs from Anniston’s sanctuary high in the Hollywood hills, typically under surveillance by a police cruiser and a private 24/7 security detail.

The Vanity Fair interview is a gentle, calm and engaging read. Yes, Brad Pitt gets prime attention.

No, the fact that Anniston learned of her second husband Justin Theroux’s recent marriage to Nicole Brydon Bloom in the press is not mentioned. And there’s no serious discussion of her new boyfriend Jim Curtis, a very successful author and life coach, who specializes in hypnotherapy.

Jennifer Aniston and Sandra Bullock are close friends, and the most interesting parts of the interview focus on changes in Hollywood regarding women’s power and influence.

“We were from that time in the business where no one wanted the ladies to be friends—it was about pitting everyone against each other,” Sandra Bullock says. “We were told we weren’t supposed to do that—meaning like and respect and honor each other.”

AOC reads references to the reality that Hollywood is back to its old, pre-Me Too ways. With our constant reading of what Hollywood women are saying in their own voices, much has changed. Diane Sawyer talks to Miller as part of the interview and she agrees that much has changed for women.

In the ‘The Morning Show’, Aniston, who plays Alex Levy, is joined by friend Reese Witherspoon playing a younger Bradley Jackson. The two women are both executive producers of ‘The Morning Show’ and they function on set as costars and equals.

Sawyer is inspired by the business model, saying:

“An alliance of women who have great energy and resilience is a wonderful thing.”

Aniston says she was coached by her manager Aleen Keshishian on how to assert herself.

“She would say, ‘You’re the boss. You pay us. Don’t lose sight of your power in that. Don’t become an asshole or bitch, but don’t lose your voice.’ ”

Aniston adds, “If there’s an area in my life where I have no fear, it’s in my career—of speaking up for what I want. I don’t do it in a scary or mean way. I just know my value.”