{"id":121892,"date":"2025-10-14T17:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/121892\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T17:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T17:56:11","slug":"jennifer-aniston-admits-she-thought-she-was-too-hot-to-join-saturday-night-live-in-the-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/121892\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston admits she thought she was too ‘hot’ to join Saturday Night Live in the 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Aniston<\/a> had a ‘self-righteous attitude’ towards joining Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u00a0in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old actress nearly joined the long-running sketch show before she was cast as Rachel Green in Friends, and Jennifer now admits that she was a little bit hesitant at the thought of joining the Saturday Night Live cast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast<\/a>, Jennifer shared: ‘I always thought I was such hot s***. The story of that is all very confusing.<\/p>\n

‘Honestly, today I’d have to ask Lorne, because I remember, I was in New York City<\/a>, and I had a meeting with Lorne Michaels, and I ran into [Adam] Sandler and [David] Spade in the room right outside. And I knew Sandler forever.’<\/p>\n

Jennifer was reluctant to join such a ‘male-dominated’ show at the time. And ultimately, she was offered a starring role in Friends instead.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Aniston had a ‘self-righteous attitude’ towards joining Saturday Night Live in the 1990s. The 56-year-old actress nearly joined the sketch show, and Jennifer now admits that she was a little bit hesitant at the thought of joining the Saturday Night Live cast<\/p>\n

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During an appearance on the Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard podcast, Jennifer shared: ‘I always thought I was such hot s***. The story of that is all very confusing. ‘Honestly, today I’d have to ask Lorne, because I remember, I was in New York City, and I had a meeting with Lorne Michaels, and I ran into [Adam] Sandler and [David] Spade in the room right outside. And I knew Sandler forever.’ Seen in 1990<\/p>\n

She explained: ‘I don’t know why I had this self-righteous attitude of ‘I don’t know if women are treated the way they should be treated on this show.’<\/p>\n

‘It’s a very male-dominated [show,] I would love to be here if it was in the Gilda Radner day.<\/p>\n

‘I mean, this is the brain that semi-remembers things that are back that far. Something like that. I can’t remember, but I just remember Friends then happened.’<\/p>\n

Jennifer previously revealed sow she reacted to the opportunity to join the hit comedy show.<\/p>\n

The movie star told The Hollywood Reporter in 2021: ‘I was so young and dumb and I went into Lorne’s office and I was like, ‘I hear women are not respected on this show’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I don’t remember exactly what I said next, but it was something like, ‘I would prefer if it were like the days of Gilda Radner and Jane Curtin.’<\/p>\n

‘I mean, it was such a boys’ club back then, but who the f*** was I to be saying this to Lorne Michaels?! So yes, adorably that happened and I’ve hosted Saturday Night Live a couple of times, and I love it so much.’<\/p>\n

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The SNL talk came right before she sign on to play Rachel Green on Friends<\/p>\n

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Jennifer was reluctant to join such a ‘male-dominated’ show at the time. And ultimately, she was offered a starring role in Friends instead. Seen in NYC in September<\/p>\n

Aniston also shared this week that she didn’t adopt a child during her struggle to become a mother because she wanted to have her ‘own DNA in a little person<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n

The former Friends star, 56, recently opened up about her 20-year battle to start a family – revealing she went through many rounds of unsuccessful IVF treatments – and now she’s explained why she didn’t turned to adoption.<\/a><\/p>\n

During an appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast, Jennifer said: ‘When people say: ‘But you can adopt’. I don’t want to adopt.<\/p>\n

‘I want my own DNA in a little person. That’s the only way, selfish or not, whatever that is, I’ve wanted it.’<\/p>\n

Co-host Monica Padman asked the actress if she’s found ‘peace’ after her fertility struggles and Jennifer replied: ‘t’s so peaceful,. But I will say there’s a point where it’s like out of my control. There’s literally nothing I can do about it.’<\/p>\n

Jennifer acknowledged she has had relationships with men and thought they ‘would have made some good kids’ but she admits the thought often passed ‘within three seconds’.<\/p>\n

She went on to add: ‘It [having kids] just wasn’t in the plan, whatever the plan was. It’s very emotional, especially in the moment when they say ‘that’s it,’ because there is a weird moment when that happens.’<\/p>\n

The Morning Show star previously spoke out about her IVF struggles back in 2022 when she told Allure magazine: ‘My late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard s***, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be. I was trying to get pregnant.<\/p>\n

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Aniston also shared this week that she didn’t adopt a child during her struggle to become a mother because she wanted to have her ‘own DNA in a little person’. Seen in September in NYC<\/p>\n

‘It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it.<\/p>\n

‘I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me: ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favour.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed. But I have zero regrets.’<\/p>\n

Jennifer spoke about her struggle again in a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK, admitting she hated the ‘false narrative’ that she decided against having children<\/a> because she is a ‘workaholic’.<\/p>\n

She said: ‘They didn’t know my story, or what I’d been going through over the past 20 years to try to pursue a family, because I don’t go out there and tell them my medical woes.<\/p>\n

‘That’s not anybody’s business. But there comes a point when you can’t not hear it \u2013 the narrative about how I won’t have a baby, won’t have a family, because I’m selfish, a workaholic.<\/p>\n

‘It does affect me \u2013 I’m just a human being. We’re all human beings. That’s why I thought: ‘What the hell?’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston had a ‘self-righteous attitude’ towards joining Saturday Night Live\u00a0in the 1990s. The 56-year-old actress nearly joined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,118,18,117,1330,19,17,6292,3605,438],"class_list":{"0":"post-121892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dailymail","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-friends","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jennifer-aniston","16":"tag-saturday-night-live","17":"tag-tvshowbiz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}