{"id":242691,"date":"2025-09-21T00:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242691\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T00:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T00:43:16","slug":"jennifer-aniston-floored-as-reese-witherspoon-drops-real-name-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/242691\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston floored as Reese Witherspoon drops real name surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Jennifer Aniston<\/a> and Reese Witherspoon\u2019s 25-year friendship has reached a new level.<\/p>\n

The longtime Hollywood friends answered personal questions about one another, and what was meant to be a playful game quickly turned into a moment of revelation.<\/p>\n

Witherspoon, 49, asked Aniston, 56, a “tricky” question on LADbible\u2019s<\/a> rapid-fire quiz, “Do You Even Know Me?”<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Aniston was surprised to learn Reese Witherspoon’s full name. (Jon Kopaloff\/Getty Images for Kahala Mgmt)<\/p>\n

The “Legally Blonde” star challenged Aniston to guess her “real middle name,” offering up three options: Jane, Jeanne or Joan.<\/p>\n

The “Friends” star<\/a> guessed “Jane,” but she was quickly corrected by Witherspoon, who explained, “It\u2019s Jeanne.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Things took a turn when Witherspoon dropped a bombshell on Aniston. Her first name isn\u2019t “Reese.”<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s confusing. I\u2019m Laura Jeanne,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon revealed their real names to each other for the first time during a quiz game after 25 years of friendship in Hollywood. (Reuters\/Kylie Cooper)<\/p>\n

“Laura Jeanne?” Aniston asked, blinking in disbelief.<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s my real name, yeah,” Witherspoon confirmed.<\/p>\n

As the long-time friends laughed together, Aniston remained stunned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“Who\u2019s Laura? What? Who the hell\u2019s Laura? Wait, Laura Jeanne, like, I\u2019m not calling you that from now on,” she exclaimed.<\/p>\n

Witherspoon adopted “Reese,” her mother\u2019s maiden name, before launching her career in 1991 in the film “The Man in the Moon.” She also confirmed “Reese” is technically her middle name.<\/p>\n

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Reese Witherspoon acted alongside Matt LeBlanc and Jennifer Aniston in an episode of “Friends,” taped in 2000. (NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal)<\/p>\n

“Oh, like Norma Jeanne?” Aniston asked, referencing Marilyn Monroe\u2019s<\/a> birth name, Norma Jeane Mortenson.<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” Witherspoon replied. “Like Laura Jeanne Reese.”<\/p>\n

And the revelations didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n

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Witherspoon fired back with, “I don\u2019t know your middle name.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Joanna,” Aniston said.<\/p>\n

“What?” Witherspoon said as she sat back in her chair in shock. “I was today years old when I learned that.”<\/p>\n

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Reese Witherspoon had a two-episode arc in Season 6 of “Friends.” (NBCU Photo Bank\/NBCUniversal)<\/p>\n

“Does anybody call you J.J.?” she asked. Aniston responded, “No.”<\/p>\n

“Well, I do now,” Witherspoon joked, as she sealed her new nickname for the “Friends” icon.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood stars\u2019 friendship dates back to 2000, when the “Big Little Lies” star landed a guest role on “Friends.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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At the time, Aniston played the beloved Rachel Green. Witherspoon joined the cast for two episodes as Rachel\u2019s younger sister, Jill Green.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Giang-Paunon is an Entertainment Writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to stephanie.giang@fox.com and on Twitter: @SGiangPaunon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon\u2019s 25-year friendship has reached a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":242692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,14273,30940,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-242691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jennifer-aniston","11":"tag-reese-witherspoon","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115239519024123108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}