Jennifer Aniston Reflects on Brad Pitt 2005 Split: “The Love Triangle” That Shook Hollywood.

Inside Jennifer Aniston’s Candid Reflections on Her Brad Pitt Breakup and the Hollywood “Love Triangle”.

Jennifer Aniston is seriously laughing about the time after she and Brad Pitt broke up and the tabloids turned it into ‘juicy reading.’ She still calls the whole atmosphere after the split ‘the love triangle’.

Looking back on her “vulnerable time” at the center of the divorce headlines, she says the nonstop coverage hit her unusually hard. “I took it personally,” she admitted.

Talking about her first Vanity Fair interview after the breakup in 2005, Jennifer Aniston says the experience felt “jarring.” The questions about the end of the marriage felt dizzying, especially since she was still wound up in the emotions of it.

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“I still haven’t reread the article,” she admitted to the magazine for its September issue. “But the memory of the interview is clear—very raw, very exposed. Let’s say it’s in the memoir file.”

A decade and a half on, Jennifer Aniston, 56, laughingly recalls her personal pep talk from that stretch: “Just pick yourself up by the bootstraps and keep on walking, girl.” She and Pitt were first introduced in 1994 when managers thought it would be cute.

It stayed friendly for a while, but the first date didn’t land until 1998. The couple let everyone in on the big news at a Sting concert in November 1999, and a year later, they exchanged vows in front of a small gathering on the Malibu shoreline.

By 2004, Aniston spoke publicly about her desire for a child with Pitt. “It’s time,” she told The Guardian, a mix of eagerness and certainty in her voice. “I truly believe you can work with a baby, work while you’re pregnant, you can manage it all. I’m just ready to welcome a slowdown.”

That very year the dream shifted. They separated in January and the divorce paperwork was stamped a few months later, in 2005. Before the dust had settled, Pitt was rehearsing romance on the set of “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” with co-star Angelina Jolie.

By 2006, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston had parted ways, and shortly after, Pitt and Angelina Jolie announced the arrival of their first child together. According to Usmagazine,Aniston has always cited that time as the moment the tabloids turned her life into “the love triangle.”

“It was the perfect Instagram story before Instagram.” Aniston told Vanity Fair. “People had no soap operas? Boom, next headline. Of course it was painful, but the damage was done—and oh, it felt like it was done to me.”

She admitted the onslaught of whispers and photos after the breakup hit her harder than she wanted. “There’s no armor for the heart,” she said. “People like to act like actors are TI-83 calculators, but we’re just human. Our contract doesn’t cover heartbreak.”

Pitt and Jolie’s family grew with twins in 2008 and, in 2014, they stood before a minister after the kids insisted, “Come on, just do the thing.” Two years later, Jolie officially filed to end it.

Before Jennifer married Brad, he and Gwyneth had a brief but intense fling. “Funny enough, I went to their engagement party,” Jennifer told Vanity Fair, laughing gently at the old memory. She and Gwyneth have stayed close friends over the years, and the “Friends” star candidly confessed they don’t shy away from mentioning Brad when they’re together.

“Of course we talk about him. We’re girls. It’s a natural course of conversation.” But Jennifer Aniston insisted the subject is a sidelight. “What we really trade are life hacks—‘Did you find a good dentist? What’s the best new smoothie? I need a new doctor for that thing.’ The classic, really.”