While she has had a troublesome love life in the past, going through one of the most publicised divorces of all time, Jennifer Aniston is now in an extremely happy place.
The 45-year-old says she is the happiest she has ever been in every aspect of her life including her career, her friendships and her relationship with fiancé Justin Theroux.
“I’ve had more fun post-40 than I can remember, from a work point of view, a physical point of view, a psychotherapeutic point of view,” Jen tells the latest edition of Harper’s Bazaar.
The pair has been dating for five years and it’s clear that Jen is truly ready to settle down with the hunky actor. The pair have even spent the past two years building their dream home ahead of their wedding, which they are yet to set a date for.
“Not only is he a great actor but he’s one of the best comedy writers out there. And he directs and paints murals. I just think it’s so attractive to be that good at so many things and to have no ego,” she said.
“He’s one of the most humble, decent human beings. He’s not an ass. He’s not like some of our friends who are young and up-and-coming and they hit celebrity, and all of a sudden you’re like, ‘Oh! You’re different. Now you don’t say hi to people?’”
Jen says the pair, who got engaged back in August 2012, just click and can spend endless amounts of time together.
“It’s almost impossible to get bored with one another,” she added. “We’ve tried so hard! And even that’s interesting because his eyes are so pretty, but we can entertain ourselves and talk about endless things, which is pretty great.”
But before Jen found Justin, she was seemingly unlucky in love. She went through a highly publicised divorce when her husband Brad Pitt left her for his co-star Angelina Jolie. But Jen says she doesn’t hold a grudge.
“[I’m] a forgiving person,” she said. “I absolutely am. I think it’s extremely important to forgive. Otherwise it just builds up like toxic waste. There’s nothing worse than holding a grudge. Listen, people can do unforgivable things, but you have to let it go and say, ‘Look, we’re all human beings. We make mistakes.’ To hold any kind of resentment is like taking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.”
Following her divorce she dated numerous high profile relationships with actors including Vince Vaughn and John Mayer. But she says the best thing she did was take a break from dating to focus on herself.
“It really helped me get to a place where I was more comfortable with myself, truly ready for love and for a partner. The past wasn’t ‘less than.’ It was extremely important to my growth as a woman,” she says.
“If you take the law of attraction, if you only love yourself 70 percent, that’s what’s going to come back to you,” Aniston continued. “So you fill up that 30 percent, then all of a sudden there’s this pure, good love standing right in front of you. Then you realize, ‘Oh, this can be easy! It doesn’t have to be so hard.'”
Jen is now gearing up for the Oscars with her new movie Cake, in which she plays a drug addict reeling from tragedy, receiving a lot of award season buzz!
