Even a woman as confident as Jennifer Aniston isn’t immune to self-doubt.
While speaking at the Giffoni Film Festival in Italy over the weekend, the actress teared up when asked by a young girl if she ever woke up and questioned her identity.
“Yes, that moment has happened to me. There’s not enough fingers and toes in this entire room to count how many times that moment has happened to me,” an emotional Aniston replied.
“We’re all human beings at the end of the day, whether we’re a waitress or we’re a baker or we’re a student — whatever we are, at the end of the day, you can kind of hit walls and think, ‘I can’t go any farther’ or ‘This is too much, my heart can’t take it’ or ‘The pain is too great’ or ‘Am I good enough?’ or, ‘Will I survive?’” she continued. “And you just have to sort of, somehow, miraculously overcome. You just go, ‘I can.’ Yes, you can.”
Aniston, 47, has suffered several blows to her personal life over the years, including her highly publicized breakup with Brad Pitt in 2005. While she eventually found her forever love with husband Justin Theroux, Aniston hasn’t always found it easy to deal with the scrutiny over their relationship.
“In this last boring news cycle about my personal life there have been mass shootings, wildfires, major decisions by the Supreme Court, an upcoming election, and any number of more newsworthy issues that ‘journalists’ could dedicate their resources towards,” she wrote in a recent blog post for The Huffington Post.
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