Jennifer Aniston's Emotional New Role About 'overbearing, Domineering' Mother Hits Close To Home For Star

Jennifer Aniston, who is group to prima successful Jennette McCurdy’s caller show "I’m Glad My Mom Died," is nary alien to analyzable mother-daughter relationships. 

On nan show, Aniston will play McCurdy’s "overbearing, domineering" mother based connected McCurdy’s real-life experiences arsenic a kid prima and her 2022 memoir of nan aforesaid name. 

McCurdy, a erstwhile kid star, will constitute and co-showrun nan bid connected Apple TV +. 

Aniston was raised by her mother, Nancy Dow, aft her father, John Aniston, near and says that erstwhile she was young her mother, a model, was captious of her appearance. 

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Jennifer Aniston will play Jennette McCurdy’s "overbearing, domineering" mother based connected McCurdy’s real-life experiences arsenic a kid prima and her 2022 memoir.  (Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images)

Jennifer Aniston will play Jennette McCurdy’s "overbearing, domineering" mother based connected McCurdy’s real-life experiences arsenic a kid prima and her 2022 memoir. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic)

Aniston told Diane Sawyer successful a 2004 question and reply that her mother told her arsenic a kid that her eyes were excessively adjacent together and her chemoreceptor was excessively big. 

"She was doing maine a favor. She was helping maine retired by telling maine these things, giving maine hints, adjuvant beauty tips," Aniston said. "It wasn't astir this is what your problem is, it's this is really you tin thief that." 

She added, "That's astir apt why I wore truthful overmuch makeup." 

Jennifer Aniston has said that her mom Nancy Dow, who was a model, was captious of her quality arsenic a child.  (Paul Harris/Getty Images)

After she became celebrated arsenic Rachel Green connected "Friends," Dow’s determination to do a tabloid question and reply and later constitute a memoir called "From Mother and Daughter to Friends," caused a rift successful their narration and they stopped speaking. 

"She made a mistake, and I don’t deliberation she knew immoderate better, obviously," Aniston told Sawyer. "I’ve decidedly tried and I’ve made nan efforts and I’ve benignant of started – it’s nan stubborn point of ‘Well, I tried enough, now it’s your turn,’ you know, and possibly that’s for illustration wherever we are, and for illustration I’ve said, we’re now benignant of each opinionated successful our corners conscionable waiting for nan different to attack probably." 

Aniston’s mother died successful 2016 after nan 2 had reportedly reconciled. "We're each fine," she told The Hollywood Reporter successful 2015. 

Jennifer Aniston successful 1975 pinch her parents, John Aniston and Nancy Dow.  (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

McCurdy, who starred arsenic a teen connected Nickelodeon’s "iCarly" and later connected "Sam & Cat," wrote astir a mother who she described arsenic an overly captious shape mom group connected making her girl a prima and who put her connected a restrictive fare astatine a young age, forcing her to weight herself 5 times a day. She wrote that her mom besides wouldn't fto her ablution by herself until she was 16. 

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Her mother died of crab successful 2013. 

Jennette McCurdy, right, connected nan group of "iCarly" successful 2011.  (Lisa Rose/Getty Images via Viacom International)

The show is described arsenic a "heartbreaking and hilarious recounting of Jennette McCurdy’s struggles arsenic a erstwhile kid character while dealing pinch her overbearing, domineering mother (Aniston). The dramedy will halfway connected nan codependent narration betwixt an 18-year-old character successful a deed kid’s show, and her narcissistic mother who relishes successful her personality arsenic ‘a starlet’s mother.'"

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Jennette McCurdy pinch her mother Debra McCurdy successful 2009.  (David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Aniston antecedently compared her narration pinch her ain mother to her 2018 domiciled successful nan Netflix movie "Dumplin'" successful which she played a pageant mom. 

She told nan Sunday Telegraph, "One of nan reasons I really loved nan mother-daughter facet of it was because it was very akin successful a measurement to what my mother, and our relationship, was," according to People magazine.

"She was a exemplary and she was each astir position and what she looked for illustration and what I looked like," she continued. "I did not travel retired nan exemplary kid she’d hoped for and it was thing that really resonated pinch me, this small woman conscionable wanting to beryllium seen and wanting to beryllium loved by a mom who was excessively occupied pinch things that didn’t rather matter," according to People.

Jennifer Aniston pinch Dolly Parton and co-star Danielle MacDonald astatine nan premiere of "Dumplin'."  (Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images)

She added, "This movie is truthful typical because it is astir stripping distant those preconceived notions of beauty, trying to go individuals and not emotion that we person to unrecorded up to immoderate unrealistic perfect that nine is feeding up to us…My thought of beauty is what makes you consciousness beautiful, and what makes maine consciousness beautiful is nan group astir me, nan life that I have. And possibly a bully hairsbreadth day."

In 2015, Aniston told The Hollywood Reporter of her mom, "She had a temper. I can’t tolerate that. If I get upset, I will talk [things]. I will ne'er shriek and get panic for illustration that. [But] I was ne'er taught that I could scream. One time, I raised my sound to my mother, and I screamed astatine her, and she looked astatine maine and burst retired laughing. She was laughing astatine maine [for] screaming back. And it was for illustration a punch successful my stomach."

Jennifer Aniston astatine nan excavation pinch her parents arsenic a child. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

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She continued, "She was critical. She was very captious of me. Because she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning. I wasn’t. I ne'er was. I honestly still don’t deliberation of myself successful that benignant of light, which is fine. She was besides very unforgiving. She would clasp grudges that I conscionable recovered truthful petty."