In late 2021, Jennifer Aniston was honored at The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment gala. In her acceptance speech, reported THR, Aniston looked back on being a struggling 19-year-old actress in NYC, waiting tables "and auditioning for every off, off, off, off, not-even-close-to-Broadway show." What would she have thought, she mused, if her younger self found out she'd one day be accepting the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award (the award established in the name of the former Paramount CEO)? "I would've looked at them like they were crazy and said, 'Who's Sherry Lansing?'" Aniston quipped.
During her speech, Aniston recalled a numerologist once informing her that her numbers indicated she was a "late bloomer." According to Aniston, she initially balked at that label, which she immediately felt was akin to being "an underachiever who hadn't tried hard enough to reach her potential."
As she thought it through, she explained, that notion began to appeal to her. "Maybe I haven't done my best work yet, as an artist or as a human being," Aniston said. "Maybe I am just beginning. So, I started to embrace this idea of being a 'late bloomer' ... of, just beginning."
