{"id":2033227,"date":"2025-09-19T01:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2033227"},"modified":"2025-09-19T01:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T01:11:04","slug":"jennifer-aniston-shocked-by-reese-witherspoons-real-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennifer-aniston-shocked-by-reese-witherspoons-real-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston Shocked By Reese Witherspoon’s Real Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The two, who have known each other for decades, played sisters on \u201cFriends\u201d and now play co-stars on \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d together. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During a joint interview with LADBible, Aniston was asked to name Witherspoon\u2019s real middle name, but ended up learning her full real name instead. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m Laura Jean,\u201d Witherspoon told Aniston in the clip, published on Tuesday. \u201cThat\u2019s my real name, yeah.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cLaura?!\u201d Aniston said in shock, as Witherspoon started giggling. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWho\u2019s Laura?\u201d Aniston said, as she too started giggling. \u201cWhat! Who the hell\u2019s Laura?\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat? Laura Jean. Like, I\u2019m not calling you that from now on,\u201d the \u201cFriends\u201d star added. \u201cC\u2019mon Laura Jean! Where\u2019d Reese come from?\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s my middle name,\u201d Witherspoon added, explaining that her full name is \u201cLaura Jean Reese\u201d as Aniston still looked like she was taking it all in. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhat made you go with Reese for your \u2018acting name?\u2019\u201d Aniston asked. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Witherspoon laughed and said that she \u201cdidn\u2019t change it, my name was just always Reese.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She then asked Aniston\u2019s middle name, which is Joanna. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Witherspoon isn\u2019t the only actor who\u2019s shocked co-workers \u2015 and audiences \u2015 by revealing their real name. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The two, who have known each other for decades, played sisters on \u201cFriends\u201d and now play co-stars on \u201cThe Morning Show\u201d together. During a joint interview with LADBible, Aniston was asked to name Witherspoon\u2019s real middle name, but ended up learning her full real name instead. \u201cI\u2019m Laura Jean,\u201d Witherspoon told Aniston in the clip, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2033228,"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":[25174],"tags":[26741,345544,306353],"class_list":["post-2033227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-jennifer-aniston","tag-reese-witherspoon","tag-will-ferrell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jennifer-Aniston-Shocked-By-Reese-Witherspoons-Real-Name.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033227","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=2033227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2033228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}