Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her difficult relationship with her late mother saying she always felt like she was not the ''model child'' her late parent, Nancy Dow, ''had hoped for''.
The 49-year-old actress, who plays the retired beauty queen mother (Rosie) of a plus-sized daughter (Willowdean) in the forthcoming Netflix musical comedy Dumplin, revealed how she channeled her difficult relationship with her own mother into her latest role.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph newspaper, Aniston said: ''She was a model and she was all about presentation and what she looked like and what I looked like.
''I did not come out the model child she's hoped for and it was something that really resonated with me.''
The daughter of Nancy and Days of Our Lives actor John Aniston, Jennifer has famously had a complicated relationship with her mother.
Aniston stopped speaking to Nancy altogether after she published a book, From Mother and Daughter to Friends: A Memoir, in 1999.
The Horrible Bosses star had reportedly not seen her mother in several years prior to her death, not since Nancy's stroke in 2011.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in 2015, Jennifer revealed how "critical" her mother was of her.
"She was critical. She was very critical of me,' Jennifer said. 'Because she was a model, she was gorgeous, stunning. I wasn't. I never was," she said.
She continued: "I honestly still don't think of myself in that sort of light, which is fine. She was also very unforgiving. She would hold grudges that I just found so petty."
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