The producers of the show originally wanted Aniston to audition for the role of Monica Geller, but Courteney Cox was considered to be better suited to the role. Thus, Aniston was cast as Rachel Green. She was also offered a spot as a featured player on Saturday Night Live, but turned it down to do Friends./gallery/jennifer-aniston-and-friends-cast/
The Rachel haircut, also called The Rachel, is a bouncy, square layered hairstyle Aniston wore on Friends and named after her character. Aniston disliked the hairstyle and did not keep it, but the cut was widely imitated and is still popular./gallery/jennifer-aniston-in-1995/
Jennifer Aniston attends the “Meet Joe Black” premiere in 1998./gallery/jennifer-aniston-in-1998/
After spending two years living with the actor Tate Donovan, they split it 1998 and her agent thought it would be a good move to set her up on a blind date –- who just so happened to be Brad Pitt!/gallery/jennifer-aniston-and-brad-pitt-in-2000/
Brad and Jennifer got married in a $1 million wedding on July 29, 2000.
During the ceremony, Jennifer vowed to make Brad’s favorite banana split and Brad promised to find a balance on the thermostat./gallery/jennifer-aniston-marries-brad-pitt/
In January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced they had decided to separate. Two months later Jenn filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Pitt and Aniston’s divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005. And since then, their relationship still remains tabloid fodder, mainly because just a few weeks after Jennifer filed for divorce, Brad was spotted with Angelina Jolie. And the rest is history!/gallery/jennifer-aniston-divorce/
When asked what Jennifer Aniston was looking forward to most in her single life, she told Vanity Fair, “I can have a comfortable couch.”/gallery/jennifer-aniston-in-2005/
Jennifer Aniston starred in two movies in 2005, “Derailed” with Clive Owen and “Rumor Has It” with Kevin Costner and Shirley MacLaine./gallery/jennifer-aniston-in-gold-2005/
Jennifer attends the Academy Awards in 2006. It was her first time attending and she looked gorg!/gallery/jennifer-aniston-in-2006/
Jennifer Aniston and “The Break Up” co-star Vince Vaughn had a real life break up in 2006 after a very private, year-long relationship. /gallery/jennifer-aniston-2006/