Jen blames childhood for split

Unhappy: Jennifer Aniston
Suzy Austin|Metro11 April 2012
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For most women, walking down the aisle with Brad Pitt would be a wedding fit for the pages of a fairytale.

But not for Jennifer Aniston. Spending nearly five years as his wife brought back memories of 'fear, mistrust, doubt and insecurities'.

She cried so easily that her husband even called her 'The Leaker'.

The 36-year-old felt her marriage brought back feelings she had as a child when her parents, actor John and model Nancy, divorced.

'When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairy tale romance and happy endings,' she explained. 'Marriage actually brought up all the sorts of things I pushed on to the back-burner.'

Sharing her life with Pitt, 41, was 'rough and nasty' at times - but no different to any other marriage. 'You just do the best you can,' Aniston said.

'There is pressure on Hollywood marriages, but I don't think it determines the death of your marriage.

'I am a total worrier and not good at hearing positive things,' the actress, who is filming The Break Up, added.

'Brad's a gentleman. He totally accepted me with all my dysfunction and struggles,' said the Friends star, who added: 'Divorce is hard.'

Aniston has endured a stormy relationship with her mother - they have not spoken for a decade

They fell out when 60-year-old Nancy discussed her daughter on a TV show in 1996 and she was not invited to the wedding four years later.

Aniston and Pitt were thought to have one of the most secure marriages in Hollywood before they announced their separation in January. Last month, she filed for divorce.

Speculation over the split centred on Pitt's relationship with Angelina Jolie.

His wife's reputed reluctance to have children was also said to have caused tension. But Aniston, who last week was godmother to Courtney Cox Arquette's daughter Coco, told Heat magazine she wanted a big family.

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