2020-01-01_InStyle_Australia

(Jacob Rumans) #1

“I CUT HAIR FOR


10 BUCKS A HEAD


IN JUNIOR HIGH. I


COULD PROBABLY


CUT YOUR HAIR”


The Hallworths have an undeniable eye, having


dressed Aniston in many a show-stopping dress.


Among her favourites are the custom Schiaparelli Haute


Couture gown that she wore to the 2018 Golden Globes


and a sequined cocktail frock by Stella McCartney that


she wore to the premiere of her Netflix film Dumplin’.


It’s no secret that Aniston gravitates towards black for


the red carpet. It’s also her preferred hue for her T-shirts,


jeans and wedge heels. She’s a queen of consistency,


whether she’s choosing her clothes or who’s in her


inner circle. “Some people would call that playing it


safe,” she says. “But I know when I’m comfortable with


something (or someone), and I know when I’m not.”


Until recently, the Hallworth sisters’ Instagram account


was one of the few places you’d glimpse Aniston, thanks to


her self-professed aversion to social media. (Although she


has admitted she was on the platform for a while under a


private pseudonym.) That all changed with a cataclysmic


bang on October 15, when Aniston posted her first public


photo, and stole the Guinness World Record for fastest one


million followers (five hours and 16 minutes) from Prince


Harry and Meghan Markle. By the end of her first day,


she’d amassed more than 10 million followers, temporarily


crashing the global app in the process. At the time of this


magazine going to print, she had passed 20 million.


Could Aniston have imagined so many eyes on her as


a kid? The short answer is no, but by the time she was 25,


Friends had thrust her into the spotlight, where she has


remained ever since. “I was such a grown-up by then,” she


says, shaking her head. “I had moved away from home.


I had been on six failed television shows. I waitressed


for years in New York before I got anything. And I was


a telemarketer selling time-shares in the Poconos


[Pennsylvania]. I didn’t make one sale. I was terrible at it.


I was like, ‘Why do we have to call people at dinnertime?’”


Other odd jobs: “I cut hair for 10 bucks a head in


junior high. I could probably cut your hair,” she says.


Her long-time hairstylist, Chris McMillan, her “brother


from another mother” who created the “Rachel style” for


her in the ’90s, might disagree. See also: her father, the


actor John Aniston. “I cut my dad’s hair, and he was on


a soap opera [Days of Our Lives]. But then he admitted


to me 15 years ago that he would go in and have the


hairdresser on set clean it up.”


Speaking of hair, I mention I couldn’t help but notice


that her character Alex had perfectly highlighted tresses


while Carell’s coif was fully grey. Women might have more


power today, but they still often choose to colour their


hair. Aniston confides that she plans to keep her monthly


colourist appointments until the bitter end. “I’m not
gonna lie—I don’t want grey hair,” she says.
Skincare, however, is her real obsession. “I think

it’s because my mum told me to start moisturising when
I turned 15,” she says. “I’ve been using Aveeno since I was
a teenager.” (And, in a lovely kismet twist, she became

the face of the Aveeno brand in 2013.) Aniston is a facial
aficionado and rattles off the names of her go-to pros:

Georgia Louise in New York, Lupita at Mila Moursi in
Beverly Hills, Joanna Czech in Dallas and New York, and
Melanie Simon in Montecito, California. She also swears

by her daily glass of celery juice and E3Live superfood
supplements, as well as a series of complexion-friendly
tools, such as the vibrating 24-carat-gold sculpting bar

from her friend, make-up artist Jillian Dempsey. “It feels
so damn good to put oil on your face and just roll,” she says.
One of Aniston’s beauty regrets is not using sunscreen

when she was younger, but she hopes her good genes will
prevail. “My grandmother, at 98, had the most stunningly

soft, gorgeous skin, and she would just put olive oil on her
body.” Would she like to live as long? “I am all about living
to whatever age I’m supposed to. As long as I’m thriving.”

When you think about the arc of Aniston’s career, she
is gaining momentum rather than slowing down. So, yes,
thriving seems to be a pretty apt descriptor. With season

one of Morning Wars completed and Apple committed to
a second season, even Aniston is allowing herself to
experience a rare moment of pride. “When we found out

that we were one of the first shows to be bought by Apple,
Reese and I both had this pinch-me moment,” she says.

“The first women to help launch a network as actors and
producers, having a beautiful piece of that pie that we
really earned and deserved. We had a big toast to that.”

And, of course, the Genius Bar perks aren’t bad either.
“I have to get those Apple guys on my speed dial,” she
jokes. “When we went to Cupertino for the launch of the

show, I was chatting with one of them and said, ‘You know, I
have a couple of things I’d like to talk to you about.’” ■
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