{"id":2030689,"date":"2025-09-18T04:58:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2030689"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:58:52","slug":"jennifer-aniston-learns-reese-witherspoons-real-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennifer-aniston-learns-reese-witherspoons-real-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston Learns Reese Witherspoon&#8217;s Real Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p> <!-- -->Jennifer Aniston Has Hilarious Reaction to Learning Reese Witherspoon&#8217;s Real Name<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_aniston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">Jennifer Aniston<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has uncovered a big little lie about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/reese_witherspoon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Reese Witherspoon<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After more than <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1080350\/reese-witherspoon-tells-the-sweet-story-of-how-she-became-friends-with-jennifer-aniston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">two decades of friendship<\/a>, the 56-year-old finally learned that her <em>The Morning Show<\/em> costar&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1420941\/frances-anderson-reese-witherspoon-more-stars-real-names-revealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">real name is not Reese<\/a>, but rather Laura.<\/p>\n<p>And her reaction? A hilariously baffled response of: &#8220;Who the hell&#8217;s Laura?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m Laura Jean,&#8221; Reese, 49, told the <em>Friends<\/em> alum during a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wvO0FMjlnHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">joint interview with LADbible<\/a> published Sept. 16. &#8220;That&#8217;s my real name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still perplexed, Jennifer asked her longtime friend, &#8220;What made you go with Reese for your acting name?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Legally Blonde<\/em> star then explained that she &#8220;didn&#8217;t change&#8221; her name, but that her name was &#8220;always Reese&#8221; since it&#8217;s her mom <strong>Mary Elizabeth &#8220;Betty&#8221; Witherspoon<\/strong>&#8216;s maiden name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s my middle name,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I&#8217;m Laura Jean Reese.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Reese didn&#8217;t know Jennifer&#8217;s middle name is Joanna.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was today years old,&#8221; she quipped, before asking her castmate if anyone calls her &#8220;J.J.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reese jokingly added, &#8220;Well, I do now!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Aniston Has Hilarious Reaction to Learning Reese Witherspoon&#8217;s Real Name Jennifer Aniston\u00a0has uncovered a big little lie about Reese Witherspoon. After more than two decades of friendship, the 56-year-old finally learned that her The Morning Show costar&#8217;s real name is not Reese, but rather Laura. And her reaction? A hilariously baffled response of: &#8220;Who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2030690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jennifer-Aniston-Learns-Reese-Witherspoons-Real-Name.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}