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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2016

SPOTLIGHT

Jennifer Aniston
America’s favorite
friend finds her
happily ever after.
We get to
determine our own
‘happily ever after’

For ourselves.

he one and only Jennifer Aniston has a resume most of us
common folk dream of. Not
only is she America’s favorite television friend, a bona

Early Life

Hollywood runs in Aniston’s blood.
She’s the offspring of actor John Aniston and the late actress Nancy Dow.
Her father is Greek, and her mother
comes from Italian decent.
Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks,
California, but lived in Greece for
a year with her family. They then
moved to Pennsylvania, living with
her grandmother in a cozy three-bed6

fide movie star, and considered one
of the most beautiful women in the
world by numerous publications, the
47-year-old is also a dedicated philanthropist and spokesperson.

room home. Her clan later relocated
to New York City, where Aniston,
despite her father’s television career,
was discouraged from watching the
tube. However, little “Jenny” snuck in
covert television time and fell in love
with the small screen.
When she was 6, Aniston began attending a Waldorf School, where
she discovered a natural proclivity
for acting. School and her newfound

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passion for acting was a good distraction from her parents divorcing.
Eventually, Aniston graduated from
Manhattan’s Fiorello H. LaGuardia
High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts.

The Beginning
Like many Hollywood wannabes,
Aniston got her start pursuing OffBroadway roles, while supporting

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By Nadine Bubeck