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Melissa McCarthy, Jason Bateman and Olivia Wilde were among
the A-Listers who showed their support.
"Everybody needs to stop tearing down women," McCarthy, 45, said
on "Entertainment Tonight," after declaring she was "one hundred
thousand billion percent" behind Aniston.
Former "Friends" star Aniston, 47, published the blog, "For the
Record," on the Huffington Post on Tuesday, writing that she was
sick of being harassed by photographers and tabloid reporters.
"For the record, I am not pregnant," she wrote. "What I am is
fed up. I'm fed up with the sport-like scrutiny and body shaming
that occurs daily under the guise of 'journalism,' the 'First
Amendment' and 'celebrity news.'"
"The objectification and scrutiny we put women through is absurd
and disturbing," Aniston also wrote, saying that "we define a
woman's value based on her marital and maternal status."
Aniston's husband, actor Justin Theroux, posted an image of her
to his Instagram page with the hashtag #wcw for "Woman Crush
Wednesday." He linked to her letter and wrote, "Here's just one
reason why."
Aniston, who People magazine named as the most beautiful woman
of 2016 in April, said she wrote the blog because she "wanted to
participate in a larger conversation" even though she does not
use social media.
The blog post was "liked" on Facebook more than 27,000 times by
Wednesday afternoon.
“The way I am portrayed by the media is simply a reflection of
how we see and portray women in general, measured against some
warped standard of beauty,” Aniston wrote.
(Reporting by Melissa Fares; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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