Jennifer Aniston: ‘With all due respect, I’m not heartbroken’ about Justin Theroux split

Jennifer Aniston’s first major interview since she and Justin Theroux called it quits is out and it begins with the interviewer asking a few “light” questions, including: “When are you getting back together with [Brad Pitt]? Did Justin ever wear your jeans? And when are the twins due?” Luckily for Jen, said interviewer was one of her close friends, TV writer Molly McNearney — and yes, she was teasing. “You’re the only person who could start an interview like that and actually send me into hysterics, not hives,” says a giggling Jen in the September edition of InStyle. “I’ll just Google myself and find out … Oh, look, I’m having a $100,000 revenge makeover,” Jen says, offering one of many examples of the misconceptions about her personal life that have played out in the pages of gossip mags over the years. “The misconceptions are ‘Jen can’t keep a man,’ and ‘Jen refuses to have a baby because she’s selfish and committed to her career.’ Or that I’m sad and heartbroken.” Taking the opportunity to clarify some of those claims, she continues: “First, with all due respect, I’m not heartbroken. And second, those are reckless assumptions. No one knows what’s going on behind closed doors. No one considers how sensitive that might be for my partner and me. They don’t know what I’ve been through medically or emotionally. There is a pressure on women to be mothers, and if they are not, then they’re deemed damaged goods. Maybe my purpose on this planet isn’t to procreate. Maybe I have other things I’m supposed to do?” She goes on to say she sometimes fantasizes about ditching her life here and moving “Switzerland … just to have this s— behind me.” She’s not just talking about the tabloids, either. At 49, Jen’s got a rhythm to keeping her goals in order so that when she asks herself questions like, “What is my life’s purpose?” she can retune the answer. ” Every seven years I try to sum up what I am doing and what I want to make my focus,” she explains. “Now I’m trying to get better at saying no and to be a part of projects that actually, really matter à la ‘Dumplin” or ‘The Goree Girls’ or this other film we’re working on called ‘The Fixer,’ about an amazing crisis manager named Denise White.” Despite those Switzerland dreams, the actress admits she’s “grateful” to be in demand for something she wants to do. “As long as I’m fulfilled in other ways creatively, spiritually and all of that stuff,” she says, “I know that I could do this until they put me in a home.”