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Aniston essay inspires actresses to address sexist standards

Associated Press

By SANDY COHEN,
AP Entertainment Writer

July 29, 2016

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When one of Hollywood's most objectified women talks about tabloid culture, people listen. But while actresses are cheering Jennifer Aniston's recent essay connecting the media's obsession with her looks to the overall objectification of women, most are resigned that reality will be slow to catch up with the conversation.

 

"Entrenched ways take a while to change," said Marisa Tomei, "but having the conversations and opening it up, objecting to it or seeing different points of view about it is really helpful."



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"I applaud Jennifer," said actress Allison Janney. "I hate that she had to do it, but I think she just had enough."

 

Aniston wrote in her Huffington Post essay earlier this month that constant tabloid speculation over whether she's pregnant contributes to sexist cultural standards that equate a woman's worth with her appearance and maternal status.

"We use celebrity 'news' to perpetuate this dehumanizing view of females," Aniston wrote.

 

"More scrutiny has always been leveled at women, no matter the context," said Ella Ceron, digital entertainment editor for Teen Vogue magazine. "Women are held to different standards than men, and are taught from a young age to value their looks and their grooming and their weight very seriously."

 

While tabloids have long seen women through an appearance-focused lens, other recent press coverage unduly aimed at actresses' looks has inspired vocal criticism online. A June article in Variety in which its film critic maligns Renee Zellweger's face based on her appearance in a trailer for "Bridget Jones's Baby" inspired an impassioned response from actress Rose McGowan, who called the piece "vile, damaging, stupid and cruel." Variety has declined comment.

 

Zellweger's face was the subject of such widespread scrutiny and speculation in 2014 that the actress released a statement suggesting that she looks different because she had gotten older during her time away from the entertainment industry.

 

Vanity Fair readers from Los Angeles to Australia blasted the magazine's July cover story that opens by describing "Suicide Squad" star Margot Robbie as "sexy and composed even while naked." Writer Roxane Gay and "Portlandia" creator Carrie Brownstein were among those decrying the article as sexist on social media. Vanity Fair did not respond to a request for comment.

 

 

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"We've been subjected to this for years, and now with the influx of social media, we have spaces to discuss and vent our frustration," Ceron said. "What's more, people are finally listening to us."

 

Other actresses have been speaking out against sexist beauty standards for years. Barbra Streisand says it's "backward" for our culture to consider actresses in their 40s as somehow "too old."

 

"It's not a European way of looking at, like, movie stars who look like real people," Streisand said.

 

"They have flaws, you know."

 

Jamie Lee Curtis recalled a magazine photo shoot more than 15 years ago where she insisted on being photographed before the hair and makeup wizards worked their magic.

 

"It was my way of making my statement back in the day," Curtis said. "And now Jennifer's written what she wrote ... It's an important conversation."

 

Filmmaker and activist Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who studies gender representation in media, has been working to shift attention from actresses' appearances to their accomplishments through the Representation Project's #AskHerMore campaign. Created in 2014, the effort encourages red carpet reporters to interview actresses about more than their outfits. Reese Witherspoon and Shonda Rhimes are supporters.

 

Change has to come from all genders and sides, Newsom said.

 

"It's too much for one person to take on her own," she said. "So while I applaud these individual actresses writing pieces and speaking out, we have to come together and say enough is enough."

Being beautiful might be considered part of any celebrity's job, male or female. So is it fair for an entertainer to use her image to promote her work on an album or magazine cover, then balk at media scrutiny of her appearance?

 

"The thing is, a man can be attractive without it being his entire selling point," said Ceron of Teen Vogue.

 

Actress Abigail Breslin says consumers have a significant role to play. Tabloids may have influenced popular perceptions of women's looks, but readers don't have to remain complicit.

 

"It just takes people not buying it anymore — not buying magazines that are circling imperfections on the cover," Breslin said. "It's become culturally normal to be like, 'Oh my God, look at this actress, she has bad calves.' That's not normal."

 

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Associated Press writers Lauri Neff in New York, Nicole Evatt in Los Angeles and Ryan Pearson in San Diego contributed to this report.

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Jennifer Aniston Is PEOPLE's 2016 World's Most Beautiful Woman!

Jennifer Aniston may be one of the most gorgeous stars in Hollywood, but she was still humbled and "very, very flattered" when she first heard the news that she was being named the Most Beautiful Woman in the World. "I thought, 'Oh my God,' " she tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. "There was this sort of very excited, teenage-y kind of moment."

 

The actress, who says she's learned to embrace her appearance over the years, insists she feels her best when she's healthy and strong.

 

"It's funny, it's a really quick transition from not a care and now all of a sudden, we've got to really be mindful of what we put inside our bodies," she adds. "And how we sleep and take care of ourselves. You can get away with a lot in your 20s."



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Aniston, 47, was first motivated to start taking care of herself early on in her career after an agent told her she didn't get a part because she was "too chubby." 

"I was like, 'What?!' But my diet was terrible," she says. "Milk shakes and French fries with gravy [laughs]. It was a good thing to start paying attention."

 

Now the actress mixes it up by exercising at least six days a week for about an hour each day and watching her diet. But that doesn't mean she won't indulge in her favorites. From chips and guacamole to her husband Justin Theroux's pasta carbonara, which they make together every couple of weeks, "I'm not as strict as I was," she says. "It was always sort of a monitored watch. Then I thought just give yourself moderation."

 

Besides cooking and exercising with her husband, Aniston says just being married to Theroux brings her the greatest joy. "He makes me laugh. He's so interesting and so interested," she says. "He's unbelievably talented in more areas than one and he's just a good man."

 

 

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As for her natural look, the actress gives full credit to her glam squad for teaching her "everything that I know! Whatever was happening before was just unfortunate," says the star, adding that she now knows how to contour her cheeks and blow out her hair. "When I was in my 20s, my face was almost a complete circle. So I really needed contouring. And now I'm slowly chiseling away, wishing I had that round face back."

 

If she could magically try any new look and instantly go back, Aniston says she'd be game to check out a pixie cut. "If I knew I could instantly push it back. I'm very curious to see what I would look like with really short hair," she says. "But I'll never do it. Never. I'm a long hair girl. It's like a security blanket."

 

So how does Aniston define beauty? "Inner confidence. Peace. Kindness. Honesty. A life well-lived," she says. "Taking on challenges and not feeling shame for things that haven't gone the way you felt they should have. And not feeling like a failure or allowing people to critique your life and make you feel like you've failed at something. That's just toxic noise."

 

by Julie Jordan,

@juliejordanc for People magazine

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44 year old actress Jennifer Aniston walked across the stage to present an award to talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, the Funniest M.F. award from SPIKE TV. Jimmy Kimmel is a reminder alongside the likes of Conan about the duplicity of standards in American public life. The powers that be in TV land will never allow the likes of an Arsenio Hall to overshadow the mediocrity of  lesser white talent in this industry. It is a cultural pattern we are apparently lacking in the maturity to outgrow, and the sophistication to move from this pattern of thought, belief and practice. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 6.12.13