In a piece published Tuesday by Huffington Post, the "Friends" actress simultaneously dispels the most recent round of pregnancy rumors and takes the celebrity news industry to task for perpetuating unhealthy standards and ideas.
"The way I am portrayed by the media is simply a reflection of how we see and portray women in general, measured against some warped standard of beauty," she writes.
Aniston, who married "Leftovers" actor Justin Theroux in 2015, points to her own experience as tabloid fodder as evidence that celebrity news perpetuates a "dehumanizing view of females" -- one in which a woman's value is determined by her physical appearance and "marital and maternal status."
"I used to tell myself that tabloids were like comic books, not to be taken seriously, just a soap opera for people to follow when they need a distraction," Aniston writes. "But I really can't tell myself that anymore because the reality is the stalking and objectification I've experienced first-hand, going on decades now, reflects the warped way we calculate a woman's worth."
Aniston was hounded by paparazzi during her marriage to Brad Pitt. She won a settlement and an apology from a photographer who used a high powered lens to take pictures of her sunbathing in her backyard in 2003. The attention intensified following the couple's 2005 split and Pitt's subsequent relationship with Angelina Jolie. Last year, Aniston tried to put the public obsession with her divorce to rest once and for all by telling The Hollywood Reporter, "If the world only could just stop...There's no story. I mean, at this point it's starting to become — please, give more credit to these human beings."
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