Jennifer Aniston Marks 56th Birthday with Cute Throwback Photo: 'This Kid Is Feeling Very Grateful'

Mar. 15, 2025

From L: Jennifer Aniston in Los Angeles on Sept. 15, 2024, and in a childhood throwback photo.Photo:Kevin Mazur/Getty; Jennifer Aniston/Instagram

Kevin Mazur/Getty; Jennifer Aniston/Instagram

Jennifer Anistonis celebrating another trip around the sun.

The actress turned 56 on Tuesday, Feb. 11, with a bevy of well wishes from friends and fans, including her pal and formerFriendscostarCourteney Cox.

Aniston showed her gratitude in the caption of an Instagram post the following day, which she presented alongside an adorableblack-and-white snapshotof herself as a child, in what appears to be a classroom.

“Thank you for all the beautiful birthday wishes!” she wrote. “This kid is feeling very grateful and very loved.”

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Cox, 60, posted a sweetInstagramtribute of her own tocelebrate Aniston’s big dayon Tuesday, alongside a throwback snap of the pair posing and smiling together.

“Happy birthday to my friend for life,” she wrote. “Never has there been a more generous, loving, beautiful, talented, funny, loyal friend. I feel so lucky to be growing up with you.”

“Remember our CATS audition?” Cox concluded, seemingly referencing their old-school pic. “Love you my sweet Cox&hammer!” Aniston wrote in a comment.

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Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox in Hollywood, California, on June 7, 2018.Kevin Mazur/Getty

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Aniston previously opened up about aging when she turned 50 back in 2019, detailing how she felt entering a new decade of her life for anInStylecover story.

“Fifty was the first time I thought, ‘Well, that number,' " theMorning Showactress told the magazine. “I don’t know what it is because I don’t feel any different. Things aren’t shutting down in any way.”

She continued, “I feel physically incredible. So it’s weird that it’s all of a sudden getting telegraphed in a way that’s like, ‘You look amazing for your age.’ I think we need to establish some etiquette around that dialogue and verbiage.”

If there is one thing Aniston doesn’t likeabout aging, though, it’s the thought of losing her locks' signature blonde hue. “I’m not gonna lie — I don’t want gray hair,” she said at the time.

source: people.com