Over the past few years, Jennifer Aniston has been forced to face her toughest critic: herself.
The 43-year-old star graces the cover of the May issue of InStyle UK magazine and confesses that sheโs having a hard time accepting her post-40 age bracket.
โYou know what makes me feel old?โ Aniston asks the magazine. โWhen I see girls who are twenty-something, or the new crop of actresses and think, โArenโt we kind of the same age?โ You lose perspective.โ

She adds, โOr being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. Itโs like, โIโm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!โ Then you realize, well, yeah, you are.โ
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But, Aniston feels just as good as she looks. โI donโt feel my age,โ she admits. โI feel young every day.โ

Of course, that feeling could have a little something to do with Anistonโs thriving love life with her Wanderlust co-star, Justin Theroux. The couple seems pretty inseparable.
โHaving experienced everything you donโt want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want,โ the actress explains.
โAs I get older, I realize what qualities are important in love, what suits me and what I wonโt settle for.โ

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