Jennifer Aniston is notoriously private on all matters involving her personal life despite her massive international fame.
The 49-year-old recently offered a glimpse into her troubled relationship with her late mother, Nancy Dow, in an interview with Australia’s The Sunday Times.
While promoting her upcoming Netflix film “Dumplin,” the “Friends” star said her real-life relationship with Dow mirrored her character’s mother-daughter connection.
“One of the reasons I really loved the mother-daughter aspect of [the film] was because it was very similar in a way to what my mother, and our relationship, was,” she said in the interview.
Aniston plays an ex-pageant mother whose plus-size daughter enters a local Texas beauty pageant to make a point about body image and protest conventional beauty standards.
She said she often didn’t see eye to eye with her own mother, a model and actress who appeared on “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “The Wild Wild West.”
“She was all about presentation and what she looked like and what I looked like,” Aniston said. “I did not come out the model child she’d hoped for and it was something that really resonated with me, this little girl just wanting to be seen and wanting to be loved by a mum who was too occupied with things that didn’t quite matter.”
This might come as a surprise to many, considering Aniston’s huge success.
Aniston, however, doesn’t see herself as flawless.
“When you refer to me as a ‘beauty icon,’ I chuckle inside because I’ve never thought of myself that way,” she told the interviewer.
“I didn’t grow up being perceived that way, and I think beauty really has to do with how you feel about yourself and what that means. I’ve had moments where I’ve felt horrible and I didn’t feel good enough or pretty enough or anything enough,” she added.
