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When I interviewed Aniston the other day, I decided to mix it up.
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Whats your typical workout?
Nothing is really typical.
I doPvolveand I love it, I absolutely love it.
I workout minimum four times a week, I would say.
Strength training is the most important thing for women in their 50s.
If you lose muscle, your bones get brittleosteoporosis.
We fall down, we break a hip, and that’s a wrap.
Whats your relationship with your body these days?
Well, we really love each other.
Me and my body arent speaking to each other anymore.
Its a cold war.
Weve got to love our bodies.
It’s doing the best it can.
I was working on a movie and there was an older man on set.
I’d seen him on a couple of different jobs and he was just working, working, working.
I go, You are impressive.
I mean, you just never stop.
And he said, I just don’t let the old man in.
There was something about that.
And that is about giving your body the attention that it deserves.
For me personally, I loved my 30s, but my 20s were nothing.
I was a nightmare.
I didn’t understand working out until my 30s and 40s.
Do you sleep well?
Sleep and I have a real hard relationship.
Its just hard to shut the brain down, hard to tell the committee to stop talking.
I’ve had to shut the news off.
Ive had to give myself boundaries with information.
You know what I mean?
I think that’s happening to half the country right now.
I agree with you so much, Danielle.
Our bodies, our brains are not designed to take in this much information.
We used to have a television and a radio and that was it.
It’s just too much.
This is not normal.
We stopped watching the news in my house.
Now we watch an episode ofThe West Wingevery night and pretend its the evening news.
You are not alone.
I think a lot of people are thinking theyll check back in four years.
I would do that.
Whats your approach to your mental health?
Can you live by your own mental health philosophy?
All you could do is the best you could.
I meditate in the morning.
I stretch before bed.
I’ve been really trying to work on my sleep hygiene, and I hate those words.
I can’t stand sleep hygiene.
I’ve been trying to meet that challenge for myself.
Some days you’re great and on point, and some days you’re just not.
So why would we do it to ourselves?
If you could’t feel or find peace, you could venture to approximate it.
That’s a beautiful way.
A beautiful martini is always a lovely way to relax.
Youve got to live your life.
No restrictionsexcept hard drugs.
Its the 80/20 approach.
Can you talk about the 80/20 approach?
What does the 20 look like?
There’s a balance.
Is that what your 20 looks like?
Pizza and burgers and martinis and late nights with friends?
Yeah, pretty much.
Were good at enjoying ourselvesme and my friends.
We’ve done it for 30, 35 years.
Any hopes for how you approach aging?
With positivity and gratitude.
I mean, we are still here.
What’s the alternative?
I’m trying not to think about growing older.
I try not to think about age.
I think we’re realizing how people are so impressionable.
But then you go, No!
Whos making these rules?!
Our muscles are going to go limp as we get older?
No, let’s keep them strong.
We can make our own rules.
A big part of how you age comes from having a community, right?
And because of screens and computers and phones and iPads and watches, we are losing that community.
Thank you for being bored.
I’m glad you’re bored.
I think that’s what I worry about.
This bubble wrap generation and the overly screened-out TikTok generation.
Who knows what that’s going to produce?
A lot of loneliness.
Yeah, loneliness, anxiety, mental issues, all of it.
He wroteThe Anxious Generation.
I’m so grateful to him and what he’s brought forth and made people aware of.
I don’t know shit about kids.
The brain should be as developed as it can be without being influenced or poisoned by social media.
Steve Jobs, the internet, big techit ruined everything.
Well, I hope they’re happy.
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