• Jennifer Aniston recently told The New York Times that she has been practicing "Goddess Circles" with her close friends for three decades.
• A Goddess Circle is a spiritual gathering of women that's "dedicated to reclaiming the powerful feminine energy found within and surrounding us all."
• Aniston said her most recent Goddess Circle came after an emergency landing on a plane for her 50th birthday trip.
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Jennifer Aniston has been swearing by a special ritual for the past 30 years — and it involves a lot of female empowerment and friendship.

In a new interview with The New York Times, the "Morning Show" star spoke about a ritual called a "Goddess Circle" that she has shared with her closest girlfriends for decades.

Aniston said she's been doing these special spiritual rituals for 30 years, and they involve a talking stick and women supporting one another

She said that for the past three decades, she has gathered with her friends to sit cross-legged on cushions in her living room, passing around a "beechwood talking stick decorated with feathers and charms" and setting an intention.

Aniston said that these Goddess Circles typically happen around major life events, including both her wedding to Brad Pitt and wedding to Justin Theroux. She said they also happen when her friends give birth and that she had one when she and Theroux put their dog, Dolly, to sleep.

She added, "The intention of a circle is to have a nurturing, non-judge mental place where women can be vulnerable and support each other while also enjoying fun and spiritual rituals together."

The actress said her most recent Goddess Circle happened in February around her 50th birthday as a way to celebrate her next chapter.

The group had been traveling to Mexico for a birthday trip when the plane had to make an emergency landing due to a missing tire, but they were able to make it safely, gathering for a Goddess Circle the next night.

Goddess circles can be different for every group and they oftentimes feature readings, music, and candles

Although Aniston shared some details about her own experience with the ritual, each Goddess Circle is quite unique and features different elements. 

On her website, modern mystic C. Ara Campbell, who says she is the founder of the Goddess Circle, said the spiritual gathering "is dedicated to reclaiming the powerful feminine energy found within and surrounding us all; to embodying and living your truth and your highest purpose."

She said the circles are also meant to move people toward "sacred unity" and they are also supposed to inspire creativity. 

Each Goddess Circle can have different elements, including candles and mood lighting, readings, music, and food, but most follow a set order and are dictated by a facilitator, who guides the circle and connects each person together to harness energy as the women set their intentions for the night.

This isn't the first time Aniston has opened up about the importance and power of her female friendships 

Aniston has often spoken about her female friendships — and she counts celebrities like Courteney Cox, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler, and Lisa Kudrow, to be some of her closest pals.

In 2018, she told Elle magazine that friendship has always been important to her and it was her mother who influenced her love of entertaining.

Of her close-knit crew, she said, "We always joke that we raised each other, we mothered each other, we sistered each other, we've been kids to each other," adding that her friends are a big part of her happiness as an adult.

"What brings me happiness? I have a great job. I have a great family. I have great friends. I have no reason to feel otherwise. If I did, I would need to go get an attitude shift, a perspective shift," she told the publication. 

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• Celebrities dominate social media, with big names like Kim Kardashian, Ariana Grande, and Justin Bieber comprising some of the most-followed accounts on Instagram and Twitter.
• However, some celebrities have shirked social media entirely by choosing to delete their accounts or never launching them in the first place.
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Comedian Amy Poehler, of "Parks and Recreation" fame, says she's "not a real social media person," and largely avoids its altogether. "I try not to read too much online because I always get my feelings hurt, even if someone's flattering you."

"The amount of Instagram selfies seems crazy out-of-control," Poehler said in an interview with Paper Magazine in 2013. "Pictures [used to be] an addition to the experience. Now the picture is the experience."

However, Poehler's nonprofit, Amy Poehler's Smart Girls, does have a presence on Twitter and Instagram.

Her frequent co-star and longtime friend, Tina Fey, stays away from social media just as much. Fey also once to Entertainment Tonight she would only join social media when she was able to her nipples. When asked by a fellow actor why she wasn't on Instagram, Fey reportedly responded: "Why would I give my jokes away for free?”

Source: TIME, Entertainment Tonight

"Friends" star Jennifer Aniston has said she stays off of social media simply to maintain her sanity. "Now you have social media and you’ve added this extra pressure of seeing if someone likes or doesn’t like something you did," Aniston told Vogue in 2017. "We’re creating these man-made challenges and it’s a such a drag."

Source: Vogue

Meanwhile, Benedict Cumberbatch's reasons for avoiding social media have more to do with the fact he thinks he would be a "disaster" online. "It would just consume me and I find that whole thing ultimately very toxic," Cumberbatch told People in 2016. "I’d much rather spend my energy doing what brought me to their attention in the first place, which is my work.”

Source: People

Actress Mila Kunis has also voiced her views about the downsides of social media, which is why she hasn't created any accounts. "[The internet] took an ugly turn and became all about who can be the loudest, who can be the angriest and the most negative," Kunis said in an interview last year. "Then it’s just not a fun game to play.”

Source: Cosmopolitan

Kate Winslet hasn't minced her words about the negativity of social media, and has referred to it as "the single most damaging place for a young woman to spend her time." Social media has created so-called "perfect" images of beauty for young people that are ultimately "unattainable," Winslet said in 2017.

Source: Vogue UK

As an incredibly public figure, like actress Emma Stone, the level of scrutiny and desire for perfection is amplified on social media. "It wouldn’t be a positive thing for me," Stone told ELLE. "If people can handle that sort of output and input in the social media sphere, power to them."

Source: ELLE

In the case of Jennifer Lawrence, a true millennial at age 29, she doesn't have social media because "the internet has scorned me so much." However, Lawrence revealed last year she made an account where she doesn't post, but only watches to see what unfolds.

Sources: Huffington Post, InStyle

Actress Scarlett Johansson has called social media "a very strange phenomenon," where people freely share mundane photos of making dinner or running errands. "I can’t think of anything I’d rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life," Johansson said in 2011. "I’d rather that people had less access to my personal life."

Source: Interview Magazine

In fact, some stars are just like us regarding technology — or at least like our parents. Emily Blunt, 36, said she's "like a dinosaur" when it comes to social media. She said last year that encounters with celebrities have turned into a "social media currency" for fans, instead of a "genuine interaction."

Sources: Vulture, Glamour

Kristen Stewart has acknowledged that social media is incredibly omnipresent in society, but has said it's not something she wants to invest time in. "Much cooler, productive rad things could be happening," Stewart told CBS in 2016. "We could be doing way cooler s--t. It’s so time-consuming."

Source: CBS News

George Clooney has said that in the entertainment industry, being popular on social media is often aligned with talent, although the two don't go hand-in-hand. However, Clooney also said that social media can help "force you to make better products" in response to instant online backlash.

Source: Adweek

Some celebrities, like Keira Knightley, have tried their hand at social media, only to delete their accounts. "I did actually join Twitter for about 12 hours because I tried to be down with the kids and it just creeped me out," Knightley said in a radio interview in 2014.

Source: Daily Mail

Daniel Radcliffe, of "Harry Potter" fame, has said he doesn't need to try out social media to know he'd be "crap" at it. "I would get into fights. I don’t have the mental fortitude for the internet," Radcliffe said on a talk show in February. "I’ve never quite been comfortable with it.”

Source: Just Jared

• Reese Witherspoon spoke about meeting "The Morning Show" costar Jennifer Aniston on the set of "Friends" 20 years ago during an interview with Natalie Portman for Harper's Bazaar's latest issue. 
• "She was so sweet to me," Witherspoon said. "I was really nervous, and she was like, 'Oh, my gosh — don't worry about it!'"
• The "Big Little Lies" star went on to praise Aniston, her on-screen sister on "Friends," for "her ability to perform in front of a live audience like that with no nerves."
• "They would change all the lines and she was just so effortlessly affable, bubbly, and sunny," Witherspoon said. "We've been friends ever since."
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Reese Witherspoon vividly recalls meeting Jennifer Aniston on the set of "Friends" 20 years ago. 

"I was 23 years old and had just had a baby," Witherspoon, who guest-starred as Aniston's younger sister Jill, said while talking to Natalie Portman for the latest issue of Harper's Bazaar. "I was nursing Ava on set, and Jen just kept going, 'You have a baby?' I was like, 'I know, it's weird.'"

The actress continued: "'And I remember her being like, 'Where are you going?' And I was like, 'I'm pumping!'"

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Witherspoon went on to say that Aniston, who starred as Rachel Green on the hit NBC sitcom, was "so sweet to me."

"I was really nervous, and she was like, 'Oh, my gosh — don't worry about it!'" the "Big Little Lies" star said. 

"I marveled at her ability to perform in front of a live audience like that with no nerves," she added. "They would change all the lines and she was just so effortlessly affable, bubbly, and sunny. We've been friends ever since."

Witherspoon appeared on two episodes of "Friends" during season six, "The One With Rachel's Sister" and "The One Where Chandler Can't Cry." On the show, Jill visited Rachel in New York to learn about "the value of money" after her father cut her off financially for her excessive spending habits. Jill then went on to briefly date Ross, just to anger her sister.

Witherspoon and Aniston will reunite on an upcoming series called "The Morning Show," which will be available to stream on Apple TV+ on Friday, November 1.

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• "Friends" star Courteney Cox (known for her role as Monica Geller) shared a photo of herself hanging out with costars Jennifer Aniston (Rachel Green) and Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani).
• "A rare night and I love it," Cox captioned a selfie of the three actors together on Instagram. 
• Even though it's been 15 years since the hit NBC sitcom came to an end, the stars occasionally meet up. During a recent interview with Howard Stern, Aniston said that the main actors "all happened to have a window of time," so they had dinner at Cox's house and "laughed so hard."
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• Actress Jennifer Aniston revealed in a new interview that she didn't think a "Friends" reboot would be a good idea.
• "There's an idea where if there's a reboot of the show, it won't be even close to as good as what it was, so why do it?" Aniston told Howard Stern during an appearance on his show.
• The actress agreed with Stern when he suggested a reboot would "ruin" the NBC show. 
• However, Aniston had nothing but love for her costars and the original version of the show. 
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Actress Jennifer Aniston told Howard Stern that she didn't think a "Friends" reboot would be a good idea — and would even "ruin" the legacy of the iconic sitcom. 

"There's an idea where if there's a reboot of the show, it won't be even close to as good as what it was, so why do it?" the actress told Stern during an interview on his radio show Monday. 

Stern suggested to Aniston that a potential reboot would "ruin" the NBC show, and the actress agreed.

"It would ruin it," Aniston echoed. She also agreed with Stern when the host emphasized that the "legacy" of the show "is everything." 

But Aniston still had nothing but love for her "Friends" costars, and revealed that they'd recently had dinner together. 

"[David] Schwimmer was in town, and we all had a window of time, and so we all got together," the actress said to Stern. 

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According to Aniston, the famous friends had dinner at Courteney Cox's home, and enjoyed themselves during their mini reunion.

"We laughed so hard," Aniston said.

She also said that the stars still miss working together on the hit show. 

"We all miss it every day," she told Stern. "I would be nothing without it." 

This isn't the first time Aniston has spoken about the possibility of a "Friends" reboot. In June, the actress said she'd be interested in a reboot of the show, and that her fellow castmates would probably be down, too. And in August 2018, she even told InStyle that she "fantasize[s]" about the return of the hit sitcom. 

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But the show's creators have mostly shut down speculation that a "Friends" reboot would happen anytime soon. 

"We set out to make a show about people in their 20s," Kevin Bright, an executive producer on "Friends,"told the New York Times about a potential reboot.

"And I hate to break the news to you, they're not 20 anymore. They're 50."

The show's cocreator David Crane shared a similar statement with the Times. 

"Look, I feel so blessed in terms of the success the show has had and continues to have," Crane told the publication. "If it all ended today, I couldn't be happier."

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• Jennifer Aniston revealed she turned down a spot on "Saturday Night Live" during a recent interview on "The Howard Stern Show."
• Before she landed her career-making role on NBC's "Friends" at 25 years old, Aniston said she met with Lorne Michaels to discuss the "SNL" opportunity.
• "I didn't think I would like that environment," she told Stern. "It was such a boys' club."
• Aniston said she told the "SNL" showrunner that "women need to be treated better here."
• She also said she was slightly "insulted" that Michaels thought of her as a comedian instead of a serious actor.
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• "Friends" actress Jennifer Aniston said in a new interview that she thinks big-budget action films are ruining the film industry. 
• "You're seeing what's available out there and it's just diminishing and diminishing in terms of, it's big Marvel movies," Aniston said.
• The actress said she preferred TV to movies since she's not "that interested in living in a green screen." 
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Jennifer Aniston has bemoaned the lack of good film roles, saying that Hollywood is "diminishing" with all the "big Marvel movies."

The "Friends" star, who is making her TV comeback with her new series "The Morning Show," explained that she is returning to television because she is not "that interested in living in a green screen."

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"You're seeing what's available out there and it's just diminishing and diminishing in terms of, it's big Marvel movies," Aniston told Variety. "Or things that I'm not just asked to do or really that interested in living in a green screen."

She added that the movie business has "changed so much."

"I think we would so love to have the era of Meg Ryan come back," she said. 

"I just think it would be nice to go into a movie theatre, sit cozy. I think we should have a resurgence. Let's get the 'Terms of Endearment' back out there. You know, 'Heaven Can Wait,' 'Young Frankenstein,' 'Blazing Saddles,' 'Goodbye Girl.'"

Elsewhere in the interview, Aniston reflected on the TV role she is most famous for: Rachel Green in "Friends."

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"I think the reason ["Friends"] still continues to be popular is that the its thesis was that you don't need a romantic partner if your friends are everything. That was an idea that was ahead of its time.

"It makes you happy. Even when I stumble on it, it makes me happy. I love it and I've also forgotten most of it, so it's really fun for me to rediscover."

In her new series "The Morning Show," Aniston plays a veteran anchor who finds herself in the spotlight after her famous male colleague, portrayed by Steve Carell, is fired over sexual misconduct allegations. 

"The Morning Show" is set to premiere on Apple TV+ in the US on November 1, 2019.

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• Jennifer Aniston joined Instagram and made her debut by posting a photo with "Friends" costars Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and Matthew Perry. 
• "And now we're Instagram FRIENDS too. HI INSTAGRAM," Aniston captioned the selfie. 
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Jennifer Aniston finally joined Instagram, and she marked her debut by sharing a photo with all her "Friends" costars.

The actress, known for her role as Rachel Green on the hit NBC sitcom, posted a selfie with Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay), Courteney Cox (Monica Geller), Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani), David Schwimmer (Ross Geller), and Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing). 

"And now we're Instagram FRIENDS too. HI INSTAGRAM," Aniston captioned the image. 

Her bio reads, "My friends call me Jen," and Aniston followed many of her famous friends on the social media platform, including Ellen DeGeneres, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Adam Sandler, and Dolly Parton. She followed ex-husband Justin Theroux, too.

Aniston also commented on a throwback photo shared by LeBlanc and said that he didn't need to use a hashtag for her name. Instead, he can now tag her in photos using her Instagram account. 

It's unclear when the image was taken, but Aniston recently opened up to Howard Stern about how "the whole gang" recently met up for dinner at Cox's home. Aniston said that they "all happened to have a window of time," so they hung out together and "laughed so hard."

"Lightning in a bottle," she said of the group.  The actress also said that she and her costars miss their show "every day."

The "Morning Show" star has talked about her stance on social media several times. Most recently, she and costar Witherspoon participated in an interview with The Telegraph and spoke about using social media to shut down incorrect tabloid reports.

Witherspoon recalled the time a magazine reported that she and Jennifer Garner were both pregnant, and how the two stars dispelled the report via social media. 

"Fifteen years ago [our image] was prescribed by a journalist," Witherspoon said, "Now we have the chance to be in control of our own narrative."

"That is appealing," Aniston said in response. "I've got to get on social media."

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Aniston also told "Entertainment Tonight" that she was intrigued by the idea of having more agency and being able to "right some wrongs and some silly things that, God knows, are said often."

For the October 2019 issue of InStyle, the actress said that social media results in "comparing and despairing." Prior to that, she told the magazine that she enjoyed occasionally secretly going on apps like Instagram. 

"I will totally admit that I can dip into Instagram and sort of be a secret voyeur," she said in the September 2018 issue of InStyle. "I'm a creeper."

"I've been with people who spend maybe an hour figuring out this one post, and you're like, 'That just took up an hour of your life, and it's gone in 60 seconds,'" she added. "It feels like we are losing connection. I think we're losing conversation."

In December 2018, Aniston told Elle magazine that she preferred to stay off social media for the sake of privacy.

"The one thing I have is maintaining this little circle of sanctity that's my own, she said. "If I'm sitting here posting something about my dogs or I'm Boomeranging my coffee mug in the morning, that's just giving away one more piece of something that is mine."

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• Jennifer Aniston joined Instagram Tuesday and immediately caused issues for the platform.
• Fans were temporarily unable to follow the star after her first post — a selfie with her "Friends" costars — caused an influx of followers, likes, and comments.
• "I think I broke it," Aniston told a fan who commented on her post.
• A rep for the photo-sharing app confirmed to CNET that there had been some technical problems, but that they were quickly resolved.
• Aniston has seven million followers less than 24 hours after sharing her first post, which, in turn, has been liked nearly nine million times.
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In case you missed it, Jennifer Aniston joined Instagram on Tuesday, but the platform was not quite ready to welcome her.

Aniston made her Instagram debut with an epic selfie featuring her "Friends" costars, which she captioned: "And now we're Instagram FRIENDS too. HI INSTAGRAM."

The post featuring Aniston (Rachel Green), Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay), Courteney Cox (Monica Geller), Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani), David Schwimmer (Ross Geller), and Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing) temporarily caused her profile to crash and meant that fans were unable to follow her.

"We are aware that some people were having issues following Jen's profile," an Instagram rep wrote in an email to CNET."We are thrilled to have this 'Friend' as part of the Instagram community! As of now, people should be able to access and follow her profile with no problems."

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Aniston even alluded to the technical issues herself, responding to one indignant fan who asked why they couldn't follow her: "sorry, I think I broke it."

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The situation was indeed rectified, though. At the time of writing, Aniston has seven million followers less than 24 hours after sharing her first post, which, in turn, has been liked nearly nine million times.

As per Insider's Olivia Singh, Aniston recently told radio host Howard Stern that the "Friends" gang recently got together at Cox's home for dinner, which may be where the photo was taken.

 Aniston said that they "all happened to have a window of time," so they hung out together and "laughed so hard."

"Lightning in a bottle," she said of the group.  The actress also said that she and her costars miss their show "every day."

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• Instagram users were sent into a frenzy on Tuesday after the actress Jennifer Aniston joined the platform and posted her first photo: a selfie with her "Friends" costars.
• Aniston accrued 1 million followers in just five hours and 16 minutes, setting a mark recognized by the Guinness World Records for the fastest time for an Instagram account to reach that milestone.
• Aniston broke a record previously held by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, whose @sussexroyal account reached 1 million in five hours and 45 minutes earlier this year.
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"Move fast and break things" may be Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's much-quoted motto, but he may want to pass it on to one of his platform's newest, record-setting users: Jennifer Aniston.

The 50-year-old "Friends" star joined Instagram on Tuesday morning. If that wasn't enough to cause a stir, the first photo she posted from her account was a selfie featuring her fellow costars from the beloved show: Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay), Courteney Cox (Monica Geller), Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani), David Schwimmer (Ross Geller), and Matthew Perry (Chandler Bing). 

Almost immediately, news of Aniston's Instagram debut led to an influx of followers, likes, and comments — which spurred technical problems and made it difficult for some users to follow Aniston's account.

Read more:Jennifer Aniston literally broke Instagram after she made her debut with an epic 'Friends' selfie

But while the issues have since been resolved, there are some things that remain broken. Guinness World Records announced on Wednesday that Aniston had broken the record for the fastest time for an Instagram account to reach 1 million followers, reaching the milestone in just five hours and 16 minutes.

Aniston's record-setting Instagram account beats a record previously held by the account @sussexroyal, the official Instagram for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. They reached 1 million followers in April in a time of five hours and 45 minutes.

Before that, the record belonged to the K-pop star Kang Daniel, who reached 1 million followers in 11 hours and 36 minutes.

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• Jennifer Aniston appeared on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Wednesday and spoke about recently making her Instagram debut. 
• The actress said that she was "the most reluctant person to join Instagram."
• Aniston also had "a stalker account" beforehand to "understand the world and dip my toe into this social media pool."
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Jennifer Aniston finally joined Instagram after resisting the urge, but she had a low key "stalker account" beforehand. 

"The most reluctant person to join Instagram," the 50-year-old actress said of herself during an appearance on ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Wednesday. "It's kind of crazy."

When asked what prompted her to make an account, Aniston said that she didn't know, but "a lot of people" talked her into it. 

"What you resist, persists, so what the hay," she said, adding that she's "just trying to build to build content, as they say" on her page. 

Read more: THEN AND NOW: The stars of 'Friends' 15 years later

The actress went on to say that she previously had "a stalker account" to familiarize herself with the social media platform. 

"When I was thinking about doing this, I sort of figured it was time to kind of understand the world and dip my toe into this social media pool," she said. 

The "Morning Show" star also revealed to InStyle magazine that she enjoyed quietly scrolling through Instagram.

"I will totally admit that I can dip into Instagram and sort of be a secret voyeur," she said in the September 2018 issue of InStyle. "I'm a creeper."

Aniston made her Instagram debut by posting an epic photo with her "Friends" costars on Wednesday.

"And now we're Instagram FRIENDS too. HI INSTAGRAM," Aniston captioned the image, which showed her with Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and Matthew Perry. Immediately, she was flooded with congratulatory messages from fans and celebrity friends, like Ellen DeGeneres and Reese Witherspoon.

The actress, who currently has more than 11 million followers, broke Instagram when she joined. A representative for the app confirmed to CNET that there were some technical problems, which made some users unable to follow her at first, but that they were quickly resolved.

In her second Instagram post, Aniston joked about the app error by posting a video of herself angrily slamming her phone on a table.

"I swear I didn't mean to break it... Thank you guys for the kind, glitchy welcome," she wrote.

Aniston also gained one million followers in just five hours and 16 minutes, setting a record recognized by the Guinness World Records for the fastest time for an Instagram account to reach that milestone. The actress broke a record previously held by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, whose @sussexroyal account reached one million in five hours and 45 minutes earlier this year.

Watch the video below (Aniston talks about her Instagram at the start of the interview). 

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• Jennifer Aniston joined Instagram this week, causing technical issues on the platform before she broke the world record for the fastest time to 1 million followers on the platform.
• Aniston revealed on Wednesday that before joining, she had a secret "stalker account" on Instagram to "dip my toe into the social media pool."
• However, Aniston isn't the only celebrity who has an under-the-radar account to keep an eye on what's going on. Jennifer Lawrence revealed last year she has at least one "voyeur" social-media account.
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Jennifer Aniston publicly joined Instagram this week, but the "Friends" star revealed she's been lurking on the platform for a while now, thanks to a secret account she created.

Aniston appeared on Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show, where she admitted that she has long had a "stalker account" on Instagram.

"When I was thinking about doing [Instagram], I figured it was time to understand the world and dip my toe into the social-media pool," Aniston told Kimmel.

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But Aniston isn't the first celebrity who has admitted to using a secret social-media account not for posting content but solely for keeping an eye on what's happening there.

Jennifer Lawrence revealed in an interview last year that while she doesn't have publicly facing social-media accounts, she is online as a "voyeur": "I watch, I don't speak,"Lawrence told InStyle.

It's not clear how many celebrities beyond Lawrence and Aniston use social media this way. It's sort of like a "finsta": a portmanteau for "fake Instagram," a secondary, sometimes-private account where people post photos they don't want to put on their main accounts. There's a whole sect of celebrities who have finsta accounts— including Sophie Turner, Ariana Grande , and Justin Bieber — but they're known to the public.

But the secret accounts belonging to Lawrence and Aniston are completely unknown and not used for posting photos unworthy of their main accounts. I personally have a second Instagram account I use strictly for following influencers and creators that doesn't post or even have a profile photo.

In the same interview where she talked about having a "voyeur" social-media presence, Lawrence also voiced her distaste for the internet, saying that it breeds "backlash" and has "scorned" her in the past. Despite her objections, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of Lawrence publicly joining social media in the future. Long before joining Instagram, Aniston frequently made comments about staying off of social media. She told Vogue in 2017 that she hadn't made any social-media accounts in order to maintain her "sanity."

"Now you have social media and you've added this extra pressure of seeing if someone likes or doesn't like something you did," Aniston told Vogue. "We're creating these man-made challenges and it's a such a drag."

With all that buildup, it's no surprise Aniston's Instagram debut on Tuesday was monumental. Her first post was a selfie of herself alongside her "Friends" costars. Almost immediately, news of Aniston's Instagram debut led to an influx of followers, likes, and comments — which spurred technical problems and made it difficult for some users to follow Aniston's account.

Additionally, Aniston's popularity even broke a world record: Guinness World Records said on Wednesday that Aniston had broken the record for the fastest time for an Instagram account to reach 1 million followers, reaching the milestone in just five hours and 16 minutes.

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• Jennifer Aniston is sorry she broke Instagram.
• Instagram reported it was experiencing technical difficulties after she made her debut post with her fellow "Friends" cast.
• After her record-breaking rise to one million followers and beyond, Aniston said in a second post: "I swear I didn't mean to break it."
• "Thank you guys for the kind, glitchy welcome," she said.
• The actor follows just 121 people herself, including Michelle Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Jennifer Aniston has responded after "breaking" Instagram with a photograph of her and her "Friends" co-stars.

The 50-year-old actor joined the platform on Tuesday and within hours after her first post, a selfie that featured Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry, Instagram reported it was experiencing technical difficulties.

The post proved so popular that some users could not access Aniston's profile and follow her.

Shortly after the post, Guinness World Records announced that Aniston had set a new record for being the fastest Instagram account to reach one million followers, which she accrued in five hours and 16 minutes.

Read more: Jennifer Aniston literally broke Instagram after she made her debut with an epic 'Friends' selfie

Now, Aniston has done a second post in which she thanked her new followers.

On Wednesday, the actor shared a clip from her new Apple TV+ series, "The Morning Show," in which her character smashes her phone against the table.

In a caption below the clip, Aniston wrote: "I swear I didn't mean to break it... Thank you guys for the kind, glitchy welcome."

Aniston currently has 11.3 million followers.

The actor follows just 121 people herself, including Michelle Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio.

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• "The Morning Show" costars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon recreated a scene from "Friends" during a recent interview with "Access Hollywood." 
• Aniston is known for her role as Rachel Green on the hit NBC sitcom and Witherspoon guest-starred on season six as her younger sister, Jill. 
• Aniston and Witherspoon easily slipped back into character during the interview and recited their lines from season six, episode 14, in which the two characters argued over dating Ross Geller. 
• In the scene, Rachel told Jill that she "can't have Ross."
• In response, Jill said: "Can't have? The only thing I can't have is dairy." 
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• Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are both fans of intermittent fasting.
• This means they don't eat any solid food for 16 hours every day.
• The "Morning Show" costars do drink coffee and juice in the mornings, they told the UK magazine Radio Times.
• While research has found that intermittent fasting has health benefits such as lower blood pressure and increased longevity, nutritionists and dietitians have pointed out that it may not work for everyone.
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Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon are both fans of intermittent fasting, in which you increase the daily overnight window where you don't eat food.

The actors and costars of "The Morning Show," which launches on Apple TV Plus on November 1, told the UK magazine Radio Times that they shunned solid food for 16 hours every day, leaving them a window of eight hours for eating.

"I do intermittent fasting, so there's no food in the morning," Aniston, 50, told the magazine.

"I noticed a big difference in going without solid food for 16 hours."

While some advocates of intermittent fasting say that all you should consume during fasting hours is water and tea or coffee without milk or sweetener, both Aniston and Witherspoon said they preferred to stick to a liquid diet in the mornings, drinking juice and coffee.

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Aniston said she's a night owl and usually wakes up at around 8:30 or 9 a.m.

"Today, I woke up and had a celery juice," Aniston said. "Then I started to brew some coffee, but I don't drink coffee that early."

The actor said she fed her dogs, meditated, and worked out before drinking her coffee.

Witherspoon added: "I just have a green juice and a coffee in the morning."

Her morning routine, however, starts somewhat earlier than Aniston's. She said her 7-year-old son wakes her up at 5:30 or 6 a.m.

Witherspoon, 43, said that she is in fact a morning person but doesn't love exercising early.

"I find it really hard to work out before 7:30 a.m. But that's the time I start one: 7:30 a.m,," she said. "I probably do that six days a week."

Though Aniston said she works out one fewer day a week than her costar, Witherspoon said she often asks Aniston for "well-being" advice because she "knows so much about health and fitness."

"Well, we want to thrive, right?" Aniston said. "We're just beginning."

Intermittent fasting has health benefits

Intermittent fasting has become increasingly popular in recent years, and studies have found a slew of health benefits, from lower blood pressure to increased longevity.

While some people fast to lose weight, many experts agree that the main reason it may lead to weight loss is that having a smaller window of eating means you're likely to eat fewer calories.

"This type of fasting often results in the consumption of fewer calories overall, which contributes to weight loss," Sue Ryskamp, a dietitian at the University of Michigan, said earlier this year.

Rhiannon Lambert, a registered nutritionist, agrees, writing that "the overall picture is that this is most likely due to overall calorie reduction, rather than the results of the fasting diet itself."

Research by Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, published in the British Medical Journal in January found that skipping breakfast could help people lose weight.

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David Higgins, a Hollywood personal trainer and physical therapist who has worked with the likes of Margot Robbie, previously told Insider that he thinks breakfast is overrated.

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But intermittent fasting doesn't have to mean skipping breakfast: If you prefer to eat in the morning, you can have your final meal earlier in the day and begin your fast after that.

It needn't be a 16-hour fast either — some people start by splitting their day into 12 hours for eating and 12 hours for fasting and then gradually increase the fasting window.

Intermittent fasting isn't for everyone

Many nutritionists and dietitians have pointed out that intermittent fasting may not work for everyone, as some people simply function better when they eat throughout the day.

"Fasting can be a slippery slope to unhealthy habits and a screwy relationship with food," Jessica Cording, a registered dietitian, wrote for Shape magazine in August.

She added that for most people, it simply isn't a sustainable way to live and eat.

Lambert said that fasting could lead to fatigue, mood changes, low energy levels, and overeating.

"If you enjoy breakfast, then there is no need to fast until lunchtime because someone else lost weight from it," she said.

"There is no 'magic' behind intermittent fasting, and it is not superior as a weight-loss tool, but it is an interesting area of research that may well expand."

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• Jennifer Aniston shared a behind-the-scenes peek from her recent photo shoot for Variety's Power of Women issue with her Instagram followers on Monday. 
• The photo showed a hairstylist tying her locks into a braid while another stylist adjusted one of her socks as Aniston waited to pose in front of the camera. 
• "I'm just a girl...standing with hair and makeup. A stylist. A photographer. A lighting crew, wind machine, props, and a computer...asking you to think I woke up like this," Aniston wrote in the Instagram caption. 
• The photo was an instant hit, racking up more than five million likes at the time of writing as well as plenty of comments from fellow celebrities, including her ex-husband Justin Theroux.
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Jennifer Aniston has only been on Instagram for a week, but she's already proving to be a master of social media. 

Aniston gave her 15.6 million followers a behind-the-scenes peek into a recent photo shoot on Monday, revealing that reality is hardly as glamorous as it appears on the cover of a magazine. 

The photo shows Aniston with a disgruntled look on her face as she waits to pose for the camera in a cozy white sweater, white socks, and gold sandals. 

Chris McMillan, her longtime hairstylist, appears to be tying Aniston's locks into a braid, while another stylist adjusts one of her socks. 

"I'm just a girl...standing with hair and makeup. A stylist. A photographer. A lighting crew, wind machine, props, and a computer...asking you to think I woke up like this," Aniston wrote in the caption, putting a new spin on Julia Roberts' iconic quote from "Notting Hill" and the famous Beyoncé lyric.

The photo was an instant hit on Aniston's Instagram, racking up more than five million likes and plenty of comments from fellow celebrities, including her ex-husband Justin Theroux. 

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"Modern Family" star Sarah Hyland commented that the "Friends" star had "already mastered Instagram," while producer Aleen Keshishian wrote that only Aniston could "look that hot in socks and sandals." 

"Truth is you kinda do look like that when you wake up," added actress Rita Wilson.

Aniston made sure to give credit to the people involved in the photo shoot, tagging McMillan along with makeup artist Tracey Levey, her stylist team Nina and Clare Hallworth, and photographer Peggy Sirota. 

The photo shoot was for the cover of Variety's Power of Women issue. Aniston was one of the magazine's six honorees, alongside Mariah Carey, Awkwafina, Chaka Khan, Brie Larson, and Dana Walden, the chairman of Disney Television Studios and ABC Entertainment. 

Aniston joined Instagram on October 15 with an epic selfie alongside her "Friends" costars Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and Matthew Perry. 

Her debut Instagram post received so much attention that it briefly led to technical problems on the app and even broke the Guinness World Record for the quickest Instagram account to reach one million followers.

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It took Aniston just five hours and 16 minutes to reach the milestone, unseating the record previously held by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's official Instagram account @sussexroyal. 

In the past, Aniston said she opted to stay off social media to maintain a small slice of privacy in her life

"The one thing I have is maintaining this little circle of sanctity that's my own, she told Elle Magazine in 2018. "If I'm sitting here posting something about my dogs or I'm Boomeranging my coffee mug in the morning, that's just giving away one more piece of something that is mine."

But Aniston, who next appears in the Apple TV+ series "The Morning Show" alongside Reese Witherspoon, has already become a favorite on Instagram, opting for candid posts and grainy photos rather than slick picture-perfect shots. 

Aniston recently spoke about how she discovered her own voice and "what it meant to have a platform to use it." 

During Variety's Power of Women luncheon on October 11, Aniston revealed that a parental figure once ordered her to leave the dinner table because she "didn't have anything interesting to add to the conversation." She was just 11 years old. 

"I carried that sentence with me into adulthood," Aniston added. 

But after "Friends" aired, Aniston said she realized just how powerful her voice could be. 

"I started meeting all of these people who expressed to me how much the show meant to them — how it lifted their spirits during a bad breakup or got them through an illness. I was just so incredibly moved by that," she said. "And I began to change the way I thought about my own voice." 

"These last two years have really made me think a lot about the messages we send young kids — little girls especially," she added. "How the things we say and do can either build them up — or tear them down. And make them feel like maybe their voices don't matter."

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• Jennifer Aniston has a phone in her office reserved for her new Instagram ambitions. 
• The star said she's worried about getting consumed by the "addictive" app.
• "I decided to get two phones ... So one sits in my office and when that [Instagramming] has to happen, I'll commit to that," she told The Los Angeles Times.
• She also isn't phased about receiving negative commentary via the app: "there's always that one person who doesn't have anything nice to say."
• Aniston has racked up more than 16 million followers since breaking Instagram last week.
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In only her second week as an Instagram influencer, Jennifer Aniston has taken preventative measures to ensure she doesn't get addicted to the photo-sharing app.

"I decided to get two phones … So one sits in my office and when that [Instagramming] has to happen, I'll commit to that," the actress told The Los Angeles Times. 

The "Friends" actress was initially hesitant to join the world of Instagram as she didn't want to be consumed or distracted by the app," she told The Times.

"I already get distracted enough by other things in life. But I'm very happy that it seems to have been a fun thing and that it seems to be well-received."

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Chatting about dealing with social media trolls, Aniston said having a public presence online does allow for negative comments but Instagram is simply "part of the world" now.

"There's always going to be that one person that has something not nice to say. So whatever. You send good thoughts to them, like, I'm sorry that's the way you have to live through this life, but there are other people having a really good time."

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Eager followers of Aniston on the platform have yet to see her post any Instagram Stories.

Since breaking the app last week when she set a Guinness World Record for the fastest Instagram account to reach one million followers, the star has gone on to the amass over 16 million followers. 

Since debuting with a "Friends" reunion photo, Aniston has also posted a video of her character on "The Morning Show" smashing a phone referencing her "glitchy welcome," a Throwback Thursday picture and her latest, a candid behind-the-scenes photoshoot snap.

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• The "Ant-Man" actor Paul Rudd said on SiriusXM's "The Howard Stern Show" on Wednesday that he and the "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston had an awkward moment together on the last day of the show's filming.
• "So Jennifer and Marta Kauffman, the writer, they were hugging and crying, and I would just go over and join the embrace and say, 'Guys, what a ride,'" Rudd said.
• The actor said he was excited about being a part of the iconic show but didn't feel quite as emotional as the stars when "Friends" ended.
• "It bombed," Rudd, who appeared on the final season of the show, said of his attempted joke with Aniston and Kauffman, adding that "it's like, 'Dude, read the room.'"
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The "Living with Yourself" actor Paul Rudd said he and the "Friends" star Jennifer Aniston had an awkward moment together on the last day of the show's filming.

Rudd, who joined "Friends" for its final two seasons, told Howard Stern on Wednesday that he was so thrilled to be on the show that he made a poorly timed joke during the final, emotional day of filming.

"So Jennifer and Marta Kauffman, the writer, they were hugging and crying, and I would just go over and join the embrace and say, 'Guys, what a ride,'" the actor said on Wednesday's "The Howard Stern Show" on SiriusXM, adding: "It bombed. Yeah, I bombed.

"That is a common thing, where, you know, the joke gene kicks in, and it's like, 'Dude, read the room,'" Rudd told Stern.

Rudd attributed his attempted joke to his excitement to be a part of the legendary sitcom — but he said the rest of the show's stars were feeling far more emotional than he was.

"With the last episode of 'Friends,' that was a massive story," Rudd said, adding that the final day of filming was "an emotional experience" for most of the cast.

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"They'd been there for 10 years. They'd grown up with each other on this show. And I'm still in that — 'Oh my God, I can't believe, there's that 'Jouets' sign that's hanging over the television,'" the actor said, referring to the set decor.

On Stern's show, Rudd also spoke about running over Aniston's foot with a Segway on his first day of filming — and managing to stay on "Friends" despite injuring the show's star.

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• Jennifer Aniston joined Instagram on Oct. 15 and created such a frenzy that she promptly broke the platform and set a Guinness World Record.
• The Instagram accounts of Aniston's "Friends" costars have seen massive boosts to their follower counts since the actress joined last week: Each costar has gained over 1 million followers, according to CrowdTangle.
• Aniston's effect on Instagram and her costars' follower counts shows just how influential the actress is — something CrowdTangle has dubbed The Aniston Effect, a shoutout to the term once coined to demonstrate Angelina Jolie's effect on everything from Ethiopian adoptions to breast-cancer screenings.
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Jennifer Aniston has attracted over 16.5 million followers since joining Instagram a mere 10 days ago, but she's not the only celebrity to see a massive boost on the platform since her debut.

Aniston's costars on "Friends" have each seen their Instagram followings grow by more than a million followers since the actress joined the platform on Oct. 15, according to analysis from Facebook-owned tool CrowdTangle. That excludes Matthew Perry, the actor who played Chandler Bing, as he doesn't have an Instagram account.

The day Aniston debuted her Instagram account was an eventful day for the platform: The influx of followers to Aniston's account caused technical issues for many users, and Aniston set a Guinness World Record by hitting 1 million followers in just five hours and 16 minutes.

As of Friday, Aniston already has more followers than her four fellow Friends costars on Instagram have combined.

Up until Oct. 15, the Instagram accounts for the four fellow "Friends" Instagrammers —  Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe Buffay), Courteney Cox (Monica Geller), Matt LeBlanc (Joey Tribbiani), and David Schwimmer (Ross Geller) — were each only accruing just a few thousand followers per day. Aniston then joined Instagram and posted her first photo: a selfie with her five "Friends" costars. In that first day, each of the four Instagram costars gained around 500,000 followers, according to CrowdTangle.

Considering "Friends" ended 15 years ago, there's logically no other reason the "Friends" costars saw their Instagram following's boost so significantly other than Aniston's emergence onto the platform. The actress's influence is a trend we can attribute to The Aniston Effect (shoutout to CrowdTangle for the name).

It's a nod to the term Time penned back in 2013 to explain Angelina Jolie's influence on the world: Whe she adopted a child from Ethiopia, US adoptions of Ethiopian babies reportedly doubled. When she revealed she had a double mastectomy because of her genetically-caused higher risk of developing breast cancer, the number of women getting similar genetic testing skyrocketed.

The boost to the Instagram accounts of Aniston's "Friends" costars may also shed light on just how intense the loyalty of the TV sitcom' cult following remains. Fans in droves were heartbroken when Netflix said in July that "Friends" would no longer be available for streaming come 2020 (the TV show is moving to WarnerMedia's HBO Max, who reportedly paid $425 million for the rights).

There hasn't been a new episode of "Friends" since 2004, but the show was just a starting off point for the illustrious acting career of Aniston, whose net worth is an estimated $240 million. Aniston is starring alongside Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carrell in a series called "The Morning Show," which will premier in the fall exclusively on Apple's new subscription streaming service, Apple TV Plus.

Although she just officially joined Instagram this month, Aniston is already taking measures to ensure she's doesn't become "addicted" to the app.

"I decided to get two phones," the actress told The Los Angeles Times."So one sits in my office and when that [Instagramming] has to happen, I'll commit to that."

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• Some people are now requesting lip fillers, cheek fillers, butt injections, and breast injections so they can look more like the celebrities they want to emulate on Halloween.
• Plastic surgeon Dr. Norman Rowe told Insider he's noticed an uptick in requests for temporary fillers at his New York City-based practice in the days and weeks leading up to the holiday.
• Rowe said Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Serena and Venus Williams, and Jennifer Aniston are the celebrities his patients are most interested in looking like for Halloween.
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If your idea of going all-out for Halloween involves wearing a wig and heavy makeup, consider yourself one-upped.

Some people are now requesting lip fillers, cheek fillers, butt injections, and breast injections so they can look more like the celebrities they want to emulate on Halloween.

Board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Norman Rowe told Insider that in recent years, he's noticed an uptick in requests for temporary fillers at his New York City-based practice in the days and weeks leading up to the holiday.

According to Rowe, between 10 and 15 of his patients come into the office in the week or two before Halloween explicitly requesting "Kylie Jenner lips" for the holiday which he achieves using lip filler injections that contain hyaluronic acid. These last anywhere between six and 12 months.

Then, on the day before Halloween, Rowe said people specifically request InstaBreast and InstaButt procedures — two body modification techniques he said he has become known for in the past five years — because they want to enhance their Halloween costumes for upcoming parties. 

These Insta-procedures involve injecting saline, a salt and water solution, into the butt or breasts, causing them to temporarily swell up and give the areas fuller and perkier appearances. The results only stick for 24 hours — just enough time to turn heads at a Halloween party but not at work the day after. 

All types of people are requesting the temporary injections to look like Jennifer Aniston or Kim Kardashian

According to Rowe, half of the people who have requested these injections are existing patients and the other half are people new customers who have never had injectables before.

When they get to Rowe's office for their Halloween-related appointment, they "name names," Rowe said, adding that the celebrity names cited most often as costume inspiration include Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Serena and Venus Williams, and Jennifer Aniston.

"A few years ago, Jennifer Aniston was highly requested because people wanted that girl-next-door look," Rowe said, "so I'd give them cheek fillers."

The injections Rowe offers are safe, but they come at a price

According to Rowe, the Halloween-inspired saline injections he provides are medically safe.

There are still some risks to these injections. According to the Bitar Cosmetic Surgery Institute, when the saline injections wear off it can cause a loose appearance in the breasts if a woman is older or naturally has looser, less elastic skin. With any injection, there's also the risk of infection.

Injections aren't budget-friendly either. In Rowe's office, lip fillers cost around $500, cheek fillers are $1,000, InstaBreast saline injections are $4,500, and InstaButt saline injections are $5,500.

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