Jennifer Aniston is surely rolling her eyes at the latest spate of headlines that has her pining for the kind of unconditional love and affection she gets from her dogs, but not the men in her life.
"This whole, 'Poor lonely Jen thing, this idea that I'm so unlucky in love?" Aniston says in the December 2008 issue of Vogue Magazine. "I actually feel I've been unbelievebly lucky in love. Just because at this stage my life doesn't have the traditional framework to it--the husband and the two kids and the house in Connecticut--it's mine. It's my experience. And if you don't like the way it looks, then stop looking at it! Because I feel good. I don't feel like I'm supposed to be any further along or somewhere that I'm not. I'm right where I'm supposed to be."
Still, Aniston's own wistful comments have helped fuel the rumors that she prefers dogs to men.
It wouldn't be bad, if, when a man comes home, he'd run to his woman with his tail wagging. This sort of excitement is something I've always missed in a man to be honest.
Men come and go but there really is no relationship like the one you have with a dog--and then they don't live as long as they should. You have to say goodbye way too soon....It makes me so sad. But their love is unconditional and I love that.
-- Jennifer Aniston
Perhaps that's why Aniston is reportedly spending $250 a week on a massage therapist and acupuncturist for her aging dog, Norman, now 13. (Aniston's other dog is Dolly, a young white German shepherd.) And who could blame the star? If we could afford it, many of us would do the same. We hope Norman lives a long, long time.