The actress stopped talking to her mother Nancy Dow in 1999, after the model published her memoirs, and they only resumed their relationship in 2005.
Aniston drew a parallel between their relationship and her new role in the Netflix film "Dumplin'".
Jennifer Aniston opened up about her difficult relationship with her mother, Nancy Dow, who died in 2016. She drew a parallel between the bond between her new character Rosie Dickson and her daughter, in the Netflix movie "Dumplin'", with her own story.
"One of the reasons I really loved the mother-daughter aspect was because it was very similar to my mother and our relationship," the actress told The Sunday Telegraph.
In the film, Jennifer Aniston plays a former beauty queen whose plus-size daughter, Danielle Macdonald as Willowdean Dickson, enters a competition to protest beauty standards.
“[Her mother Nancy Dow] She was a model and everything was related to the presentation and her appearance and the appearance that I had” ─ explained the actress ─ “I was not the model child that she had expected and it was something that really made me marked. This little girl who wants to be seen and loved by a mother who was very busy and didn't care that much," she added.
THE DISCORD
Jennifer Aniston's parents divorced when she was 9 years old. The relationship between mother and daughter is said to have deteriorated after Dow published her memoir, Mother and Daughter to Friends, in 1999. They did not speak again until the actress divorced Brad Pitt in 2005.
Her comments echo others she made in 2015, a year before her mother died when she said she was "very critical." "Because she was a model, she was very beautiful and I wasn't," she told the Hollywood Reporter.
