Brad & Jen: It's Baby Time

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s dreams are finally coming true as they take a huge step in rekindling their romance

Jennifer Aniston’s career is on fire. On Nov. 2, Netflix announced that her buzzed-about new beauty pageant dramedy, Dumplin’, will hit the streaming platform on Dec. 7. And it was recently revealed that 14 years after she and her costars broke records with their $1 million-per-episode salaries on Friends, Jen is once again among the top-earning women on television: She’ll make $1.1 million an episode to star alongside Reese Witherspoon on a hotly anticipated (but still unnamed) Apple TV drama set in the world of morning television shows — Jen’s first recurring TV role since she wrapped Friends. It’s a huge testament to her enduring popularity and appeal.

Yet nothing can compare to the joy she’s experiencing in her private life. Nearly a year after splitting with husband Justin Theroux and secretly reuniting with first husband Brad Pitt in the wake of his 2016 breakup from Angelina Jolie, Jen is preparing for the role of a lifetime: mom. “Brad and Jen never gave up hope on having a child together, and now it’s finally happening. They’ve had such a troubled history, but their baby dreams have finally come true,” a friend tells Star. “She’s been telling pals that she’s pregnant — and that they can’t wait to meet their baby.”

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