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Jen and Brad

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illandBored · 29/01/2020 14:10

Ok so I’m a bit bored as I have a flu. Otherwise I usually do have a life..

Is anyone like me a bit protective of Jennifer Aniston and thinkng Brad doesn’t really deserve her and that I’m quite struggling to see myself forgiving someone who would do to me what Brad did to Jen??

I come from a home with devastating divorce between parents With ongoing grudges and I’m projecting a lot and wondering whether normal people forgive such things and why and how ?

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IntermittentParps · 29/01/2020 15:07

I kind of like the idea that they're just on friendly terms and pleased to see each other doing well.

I've a bit of a soft spot for them all, so have never been and could never be Team Jen, Ang, or Brad.

Maighdeann · 29/01/2020 15:08

She'd be mad to take him back - mad I tell ya! But there is something so damn hot about him.

QueenOfTheAndals · 29/01/2020 15:12

Brad is looking better than he has in years. Random factoid: he's older than Nigel Farage!

WhentheRabbitsWentWild · 29/01/2020 15:13

Yes I must agree OP

Not overly a fan of Jennifer or Brad as it happens , but she seems a nice person and as somebody said, he went and had the family Jennifer probably wanted, with Angelina.
People change as well through life and I think if they were good friends that is preferable all round , personally speaking, as a lot has happened between their divorce and now.

illandBored · 29/01/2020 15:14

Maighdeann I look at him and see a heartless man who is getting everything he wants, whenever he wants while women around him suffer silently.

A bit of a manchild who needs to be told how to be sensible which isn’t attractive

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illandBored · 29/01/2020 15:18

Also can’t see their relationship surviving the hurt feelings and I hope if they are together and it ends that she would be the one dumping him this time round

Ok I need to chill lol

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measelsmumpsandweasels · 29/01/2020 15:20

Meh. The body language all says they both still have feelings for each other. People don't always act rationally. He seems to be her one. He's got a hell of a lot of baggage with two feet now though.

PGtipsplease · 29/01/2020 15:22

EineReiseDurchDieZeit

"It's all the drama, Mick, I just love it" Grin

That actually made me laugh out loud Grin

Noshowlomo · 29/01/2020 15:23

He’s not ageing well at all.

gabsdot45 · 29/01/2020 15:26

Isn't Jennifer married?

MrsTerryPratchett · 29/01/2020 15:28

The body language all says they both still have feelings for each other.

They are actors, in front of cameras. And it's well known that often terrible lack of chemistry off screen is sizzling on screen.

QueenOfTheAndals · 29/01/2020 15:28

She was but she got divorced a couple years ago.

QueenOfTheAndals · 29/01/2020 15:28

And it's well known that often terrible lack of chemistry off screen is sizzling on screen.

Brangelina in Mr & Mrs Smith were the exception to that rule!

userxx · 29/01/2020 15:30

@sucha If she wanted kids she would have had them. He royally screwed her over but he didn't steal her ovaries. He's a twat who hopefully realises now he let a good woman go. Fool.

IcedPurple · 29/01/2020 15:31

he went and had the family Jennifer probably wanted, with Angelina

I hate this assumption that all childfree women are secretly longing for baybeez. Brad Pitt isn't the only man in the world. Jen could easily have had children with someone else if she'd wanted to, or even become a single mum - she's certainly rich enough. But maybe, just maybe, she didn't want to? Her life looks pretty sweet to me.

IcedPurple · 29/01/2020 15:34

It's PR and promotion. Don't forget it's awards season. No way would they get back together

This.

They're both very PR savvy and knew what they were doing, but I highly doubt it means they're back together. I expect they bump into each other all the time - Hollywood is a pretty small town - and Brad was at Jen's 50th birthday party last year. Jen has an amazing life and I'm happy she's the one who's come out the best from this whole saga.

Speaking of which, why aren't Brand and Angie divorced yet? It's been over 3 years. They've been seperated for longer than they were together as a married couple.

Inkanta · 29/01/2020 15:37

Yes I think Brad and Angie were officially divorced a year ago.

illandBored · 29/01/2020 15:37

IcedPurple didn’t she say herself that they were trying for a child few months before the break up? And rumours about a miscarriage?

Not every woman fancies the idea of single parenting and instead want the old fashioned stable home then kids and I think she struggled to move on for that to have happened.

I think she mentioned herself multiple times so it’s not assumptions that apply to every childfree woman

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IcedPurple · 29/01/2020 15:42

didn’t she say herself that they were trying for a child few months before the break up?

I've never heard that. But even so it could have been just to please him as he wanted children. Do you have a link to where she said this?

And rumours about a miscarriage?

If you're famous, you'll be the subject of all sorts of 'rumours'. Doesn't mean they're true.

Not every woman fancies the idea of single parenting and instead want the old fashioned stable home then kids and I think she struggled to move on for that to have happened

She's been in several relationships since splitting with Pitt though, so if she wanted kids she could have had them. Maybe, just maybe, she didn't want them? It IS possible.

illandBored · 29/01/2020 15:42

Jen has an amazing life and I'm happy she's the one who's come out the best from this whole saga.

Has she? How?

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IcedPurple · 29/01/2020 15:44

Yes I think Brad and Angie were officially divorced a year ago

Yes you're right they are divorced, but are still to work out a settlement!

Lottapianos · 29/01/2020 15:44

'I hate this assumption that all childfree women are secretly longing for baybeez'

I hear you. She did say at some point that she wanted children - maybe it was to shut people up, or maybe she did want them, and then she didn't, or maybe she was always ambivalent about the whole thing. Who knows!

Triglesoffy · 29/01/2020 15:46

AJ annoys me.

Redcrayons · 29/01/2020 15:46

She’d be a fool to go back there. He cheated on her.

She seems pretty sensible, I’m sure she wouldn’t.

IcedPurple · 29/01/2020 15:47

Has she? How?

*A fantastic career.
*Tons of friends (see the guest list for her 50th birthday).
*Very popular with the public and in Hollywood
*No ugly custody battle.
*No nasty public divorce.
*$200 million in the bank, and counting.
*Looks amazing.

All sounds pretty good to me.

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