In the latest issue of Interview magazine, Sandra Bullock interviewed her close friend and cover star Jennifer Aniston (opens in new tab). The result is an intimate insight into Aniston's personal life. The actor spoke about her difficult childhood (as Elle (opens in new tab) reports, her father left when she was nine, and Aniston and her mother shared a long estrangement), and the impact her formative years had on her today.

Brock asked Aniston (opens in new tab). How is it that you can stay afloat and not get depressed when things don't go well? [Aniston replied. Growing up in a home where I felt insecure and unsafe, seeing adults being unkind to each other, seeing certain things about human behavior, I said, 'I don't want to do that. I don't want to be like that. I don't want to experience this feeling that I'm feeling in my body right now. I don't want anyone else I come in contact with to feel that way.'"

"So I guess I'm grateful to my parents," she continued. They can be angry, they can be martyrs, or they can say, 'We got lemons, let's make lemonade.'"

Speaking to Elle (opens in new tab) in 2018 about her Netflix film "Dumplin'," in which she plays a pushy pageant mom, Aniston discussed her "challenging upbringing" and the similarities between her on-screen character and her own mother. She commented. She was the kind of person in the world who would say things like, "Honey, you need to take better care of yourself," or "Honey, put your face on," or all the weird things I remember from my childhood"

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"My mother said those things because she really loved me. It wasn't that she was trying to be a nasty woman or that she knew I would create deep wounds that would cost a fortune to undo. She grew up that way," Aniston recalled. 'I think she just endured, struggled financially, and did the best she could while dealing with a husband who was gone.'

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