Next Jen-eration ‘Life Doesn't Stop After 50'

The Star Reckons Life Only Gets Better With Age.

- Judy Kean

Turning 50 doesn’t faze Jennifer Aniston. The Friends star reaches the milestone birthday next month and is not only accepting of the fact she’s entering her sixth decade, she’s actually looking forward to it!

“I don’t think life stops after 50. If anything, it gets more exciting,” says Jennifer, who hits half a century on February 11. “For some reason, we don’t honour or pay respect to ageing. It’s something we look at as a negative and yet every single person on this planet does it.”

She will mark the occasion but she’s not revealing how just yet – although TV star Ellen DeGeneres has offered to host a party. “I always love celebrating these sorts of milestones,” Jennifer says. “I think they’re worth celebrating and not shying away from, even though they offer up their own sort of contemplation of, ‘Where have I been?’, ‘What have I done?’ and ‘What do I still have left to do?’”

Jennifer doesn’t understand why people don’t embrace getting older, and “why there’s some sort of expiration date on who you are as a person worth watching and a story being told about you”.

The world has been watching since she first graced screens as Friends’ Rachel Green in 1994 and there have been thousands of stories told about her since – not all of them to her liking. The obsession with her love life – in particular her marriages to actors Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux – and the fact she hasn’t had kids rankles.