Jennifer Aniston rose to fame as Rachel Green in NBC's Friends (1994–2004), earning a Golden Globe, Emmy, and Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. She later appeared in shows like 30 Rock, Cougar Town, and Burning Love. In 2019, she returned to TV with a starring role in Apple TV+'s The Morning Show.
She also appeared in films like Bruce Almighty, The Good Girl, Cake, Marley & Me, Horrible Bosses, The Break-Up, Rumor Has It, and We're the Millers, to name a few.
Aniston's success made her a permanent tabloid fixture, with every small detail about her life and career making headlines. Even the Cobb salad that she swore by for a decade while working on Friends became a viral TikTok trend in 2022.
Everything to know about Jennifer Aniston's viral Cobb salad
In June 2010, Courteney Cox, who played Monica Geller on Friends, told the Los Angeles Times that Aniston ate the same lunch throughout the show's 10-year run.
"Jennifer and Lisa (Kudrow) and I ate lunch together every single day for 10 years. And we always had the same thing — a Cobb salad. But it wasn't really a Cobb salad. It was a Cobb salad that Jennifer doctored up with turkey bacon and garbanzo beans and I don't know what."
The aforementioned Cobb salad resurfaced more than a decade later after the account @themodernnonna posted a version of the salad in January 2022. It soon turned into a viral trend on TikTok as numerous food bloggers tried re-creating the recipe, which became known as the Jennifer Aniston salad.
The key ingredients in the salad's different variations included bulgur wheat, cucumber, pistachios, red onion, mint, parsley, and crumbled feta cheese. Moreover, the salad was dressed in olive oil and lemon juice and topped with a can of chickpeas.
In June 2022, Aniston told Elle Magazine that the trending salad recipe was not her go-to work lunch as it contained a lot of chickpeas.
"It looks like a delicious salad, but that’s not the one I had on Friends. I would never have that much chickpea in a salad, to be honest. Not good for the digestive tract."
Not long after, Jennifer Aniston put an end to all the confusion by revealing the exact ingredients in her Cobb salad recipe while speaking to Shape Magazine in June 2022. She said that her salad consisted of shredded lettuce, chicken, garbanzo beans, bacon, egg whites, vinaigrette, and Pecorino cheese from a nearby Italian restaurant.
A few months later in November 2022, The Morning Show alum again recalled the salad's ingredients in a YouTube video with Allure. She said the salad was made with chopped iceberg lettuce, diced tomato, garbanzo beans, chopped salami, chopped crunchy turkey bacon, diced chicken, Pecorino cheese, and Italian dressing.
Jennifer Aniston was last seen in Murder Mystery 2
In 2023, Jennifer Aniston starred in the action-comedy mystery film Murder Mystery 2 with Adam Sandler. A sequel to 2019's Murder Mystery, the film is directed by Jeremy Garelick and written by James Vanderbilt.
Aniston's co-stars in the film included Adam Sandler, Mark Strong, Mélanie Laurent, Jodie Turner-Smith, John Kani, Adeel Akhtar, Enrique Arce, Jillian Bell, and Tony Goldwyn, among others.
Murder Mystery 2 premiered on March 31, 2023, on Netflix and was met with mixed reviews from critics.
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