Jennifer Aniston’s Friends Instagram post earned her 4.6 million followers in less than 12 hours

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16th Oct 2019

Jennifer Aniston has been, up until a few hours ago, that rare Hollywood star who has kept her private life relatively private, only sharing what she wants the public to know in the occasional interview. Indeed, Aniston has been the Tinseltown exception in the age of social media where fans know in real time every smoothie, gym workout and movie set their favourite celebrity has drunk, completed and is currently working on.

Aniston’s approach to not oversharing harkens back to the golden age of Hollywood when information and access to Hollywood’s biggest stars was tightly controlled by the movie studios and their publicists and it appears—just as it did in the past—to have worked. Every time Aniston has offered any tiny insight into her life via an interview, fans and the internet have dissected and discussed it at length for months and even years on end.

But, overnight that all changed when the Friends star finally set up an Instagram account and posted her very first post, which, naturally—she is one of the most popular and beloved stars on the planet after all—broke the internet. 

For Aniston’s social media debut, the Morning Wars star posted a grainy selfie with her Friends co-stars—Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc and David Schwimmer. The 50-year-old cheekily referenced the crew’s hit TV show in the caption, writing: “And now we’re Instagram FRIENDS too. HI INSTAGRAM”. The Murder Mystery star also included a nod to Friends in her bio, which reads “My friends call me Jen.”

At the time of writing, less than 12 hours after Aniston’s account went live and she posted her first post, Aniston’s follower count has already hit 4.6 million, surely making this one of the biggest social media debuts ever on the platform? 

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Aniston’s phenomenal Instagram debut follower count proves not only once again the enduring popularity of the star, but also that her strategy for not oversharing has worked. Her legion of fans and the internet in general are completely intrigued by this actress and her life.

However, given the star’s previous under-the-radar attitude, we aren’t expecting that Aniston will start sharing every single minute of her life and her day, it just doesn’t seem in character. But, at least she’s taken one small step towards letting her fans in on what’s happening in Rachel, sorry, Aniston’s world.

Welcome to the world of social media, Friend Jen!