Jennifer Aniston may have gone Instagram official with boyfriend Jim Curtis last month, but it appears that she still needs to adjust to her new normal with the handsome hypnotherapist.
“It’s a culture shock, but Jim isn’t interested in turning into a piece of high-fashion arm candy just to keep up with Jen,” a source with longtime ties to the Friends star’s team exclusively tells Star.
The 56-year-old A-list actress — whose last major public relationship was her marriage to Justin Theroux, which ended in 2018 — has been linked to the 50-year-old since July.
In November, she shared a photo to her Instagram of herself hugging Curtis in celebration of his birthday, calling him “my love.” Days later, they made their red-carpet debut at Elle’s 2025 Women in Hollywood celebration.
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According to Star’s source, “For Jen and Jim to work out in the long term, they’re going to have to find a middle ground between Jim’s low-key, thrift-store approach and Jen’s world, where she gets waited on hand and foot as a matter of habit.”
The actress is no stranger to the spotlight. In fact, in 2019, she broke a Guinness World Record for being the person with the fastest time to reach 1 million Instagram followers (it took her only five hours and 16 minutes).
“For this to work, Jen is the one who has to change, and she knows it,” the source insists. “For all the talk about how she is ‘down to earth’ and ‘normal,’ Jim is the one who has real-world, non-famous friends, not Jen.”
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The source says that the Emmy Award winner is starting by “completely remodeling her Bel-Air house to fit Jim’s needs and accommodate how he wants to do his work.”
However, the insider points out, “She did the exact same thing for Justin Theroux, and that relationship still ended in failure.”
“Jen can’t pretend to change to meet Jim in the middle,” says the source. “He has to do it for real, and it’s not a problem she can just throw money at to make it go away. For Jen and Jim to have a long-term future together, they’re both going to have to make huge sacrifices!”
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