Jennifer Aniston Elle January 2019
Jennifer Aniston on Why She Divorced Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux: "We Chose to Be Happy"
![On her past marriages: "My marriages, they've been very successful, in [my] personal opinion. And when they came to an end, it was a choice that was made because we chose to be happy, and sometimes happiness didn't exist within that arrangement anymore."
On society's unrealistic expectations for women: "We live in a society that messages women: by this age, you should be married; by this age, you should have children. That's a fairy tale. That's the mold we're slowly trying to break out of."
On women finding their own happiness: "That's part of sexism — it's always the woman who's scorned and heartbroken and a spinster. It's never the opposite. The unfortunate thing is, a lot of it comes from women. Maybe those are women who haven't figured out that they have the power, that they have the ability to achieve a sense of inner happiness."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/Akmpq5Q4ViS7O7KZ8y8JayOw_nU/fit-in/1024x1024/filters:strip_icc-!!-/2018/12/07/738/n/1922398/9503383b9e455793_JA3/i/her-past-marriages-My-marriages-ve-been-very-successful.jpg "On her past marriages: \"My marriages, they've been very successful, in [my] personal opinion. And when they came to an end, it was a choice that was made because we chose to be happy, and sometimes happiness didn't exist within that arrangement anymore.\"
On society's unrealistic expectations for women: \"We live in a society that messages women: by this age, you should be married; by this age, you should have children. That's a fairy tale. That's the mold we're slowly trying to break out of.\"
On women finding their own happiness: \"That's part of sexism — it's always the woman who's scorned and heartbroken and a spinster. It's never the opposite. The unfortunate thing is, a lot of it comes from women. Maybe those are women who haven't figured out that they have the power, that they have the ability to achieve a sense of inner happiness.\"")
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