Instead, she had to work hard for what she is today. After taking part in many movies she refers to as failures, Aniston, who was born in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, moved to New York where she worked as a waitress and a telemarketer.

“I had moved away from home, I had been on six failed television shows. I waitressed for years in New York before I got anything. And I was a telemarketer selling time-shares in the Poconos. I didn’t make one sale. I was terrible at it and I was like, ‘Why do we have to call people at dinnertime?’,” she told Harpers Bazaar.

However, Friends changed her life completely. ”I’d done about seven hundred failed shows before Friends, and there was no reason to believe that Friends would be any different. Right before it aired, the director, Jimmy Burrows — or Papa, as I call him — flew the six of us to Las Vegas. He took us out to dinner and said, “You don’t know what you’re about to embark on. You better take care of each other,” Jennifer said.

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