Jennifer Aniston: I have worked too hard to be reduced 'to a sad, childless human'

Jennifer Aniston is taking no prisoners when it comes to her critics... again. 

The actor has nailed the lid on her nice girl, Rachel Green persona once and for all by savaging gossips in her most recent interview with Marie Claire, just four months after she hit back at a decade of persistent rumour-mongering about her fertility. 

"My marital status has been shamed; my divorce status was shamed; my lack of a mate had been shamed; my nipples have been shamed. It's like, Why are we only looking at women through this particular lens of picking us apart? Why are we listening to it?" she replied when asked why she decided to pen her Huffington Post op-ed.

She added: "I just thought: I have worked too hard in this life and this career to be whittled down to a sad, childless human."

In the essay titled For the Record in July, the 47-year-old actress wrote that while she never used to address gossip, she was compelled to do so in the face of "sport-like scrutiny and body shaming that occurs daily under the guise of 'journalism'".

"I used to tell myself that tabloids were like comic books, not to be taken seriously, just a soap opera for people to follow when they need a distraction," she wrote. 

"But I really can't tell myself that anymore because the reality is the stalking and objectification I've experienced first-hand, going on decades now, reflects the warped way we calculate a woman's worth."

For the Office Christmas Party star's Marie Claire sit-down, that sees her face on the cover for the umpteenth time, she also spoke about her love for her husband of one year, Justin Theroux, after being dragged unmercifully into the midst of her ex-husband Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's divorce in September. 

"Why is he the right person for me? All I know is that I feel completely seen, and adored, in no matter what state," she said.

"There's no part of me that I don't feel comfortable showing, exposing. And it brings forth the best part of myself, because I care about him so much. And he's such a good person. It hurts me to think of anything hurting him."

What's next for the former Friends star?  "This is a time when I'm not completely sure what I'm doing. I'm at this sort of crossroads trying to figure out what inspires me deep in my core. What used to make me tick is not necessarily making me tick anymore ... The most challenging thing right now is trying to find what it is that makes my heart sing."