Alt Text: Jennifer Aniston strikes a pose during a photo op before of a Louis Vuitton launch dinner. Photo credit: AP Photo/Francois Mori
The Netflix original movie “Dumplin,” starring Jennifer Aniston, tells the story of a former Texas beauty queen whose overweight daughter attends the pageant she runs as a protest.
“Dumplin” stars Jennifer Aniston and Danielle Macdonald. Bob Mahoney of Netflix is credited for creating the image.
In a recent interview, Aniston said that her complicated relationship with her mother, Nancy Dow, was reflected in the movie’s portrayal of a mother and daughter whose fixation with traditional beauty standards made her feel inferior.
2016 saw Dow’s passing. She was an actor and model as well.
Given that her mother was a model, Aniston, 49, said of her in an interview with the Daily Telegraph that she was “all about presentation and what she looked like and what I looked like.” “I did not live up to her ideal of what a perfect child should be.”
Aniston’s honey-blond hair and her almost eternally lean frame, of course, made many people think that she was one of the most gorgeous and well-liked female celebrities in the country. On magazine covers and the red carpet, she never fails to draw attention.
However, Aniston has consistently stated that she feels insecure about her physical appearance because of Dow—the front cover of Nancy Dow’s 1999 autobiography about her relationship with her famous daughter Jennifer Aniston.
Aniston stated, “She was critical of my looks,” to the Hollywood Reporter. That was in the past, in 2015. She was excellent. Not me. It’s okay that I still don’t see myself that way. Given her prior trauma, Aniston found her casting in “Dumplin” to be quite disconcerting for these reasons.
Aniston told The Daily Telegraph, “It resonated with me, this little girl just wanting to be seen and loved by a mom who was too occupied with things that didn’t quite matter.”
“Dumplin,” which is based on the young adult novel of the same name, centers on Willowdean, a teenage girl who enters her mother’s Miss Teen Bluebonnet pageant as a way to defy both her mother’s and her own expectations.
Rosie Dickson, her mother, is displeased with her daughter’s choice and the fact that other girls enter despite not having the conventional beauty queen appearance.
The film’s message, according to Aniston, is about embracing one’s individuality and letting go of conventional beauty standards in place of feeling compelled to fit in.
What makes you feel beautiful is what I find lovely; my perception of beauty is influenced by the people in my life and the lifestyle I lead—a gorgeous hair day.
Aniston’s mother starred in a number of 1960s television shows, including “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Wild Wild West.” In 1965, she got married to actor John Aniston, who gained notoriety from his role on “Days of Our Lives.” In 1980, they divorced.
The tense relationship between Aniston and her mother came to light when Aniston’s mother penned her autobiography, “From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir,” in 1999.
According to the Daily Mail, the women started getting back together in 2005 following Aniston’s divorce from her first husband, Brad Pitt. But their relationship never fully recovered.
The Daily Mail claims that Dow suffered a stroke in 2011 and that they didn’t speak much after that. It is said to have been their final meeting until two weeks prior to Dow’s death in 2016 at the age of 79.
During her 2015 wedding, Aniston forgot to give Justin Theroux her mother’s invitation. According to The Daily Mail, her father and his daughter remained close even though he wasn’t present at the wedding.
