Jennifer Aniston: "It's My Time"

Jennifer Aniston

has certainly come a long way from her days as Rachel Green on Friends. The 39-year-old actress has successfully moved on from her sitcom days, able to take on leading lady roles in several hit movies over the past decade. Her new movie Marley and Me adds yet another feather to her cap, and her life in front of and beyond the cameras could not get any better.

"I just feel like, you know, every woman that's ever said - or man - that's said it just gets better, I just agree," she gushes to the press in a recent interview, adding, "You don't know as much as you know in your 20s as you do in your 30s as you do when you are... I'm startin' to live. And it's really good!"

Her recent and much talked-about stint as GQ covergirl, where she posed buck naked save for a strategically placed necktie, is proof of her growing confidence with her body and her reputation. "It's funny. I mean, I honestly see it as a different person," she says of the cover. "It's just - well, because the headlines are outrageous, you usually get a kick out of that. But you just kind of go - you try to walk past it as fast as you possibly can, honestly."

While Aniston had complained before that her personal life was purely "none of people's "(expletive) business," she has come to terms with the fact that people tend to stare at her in public. "It's amazing how you can sort of start to tune them out."

Having played the lead in romantic comedies such as Along Came Polly and The Breakup, Aniston is glad that Marley and Me is a slight and healthy change of pace. She claims that it was "so nice not starring in your normal romantic comedy, where it's all about getting the guy or getting the girl... we get to actually tell the story."

Not to be outdone by her onscreen flames, her real-life romantic endeavors are going strong with "Your Body is a Wonderland" singer John Mayer.

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