The Jennifer Aniston-led film “Dumplin’” will be streaming on Netflix this week. And the actress recently revealed that some aspects in her real life helped her relate to the story even more.
“Dumplin’” — based on the same title novel by Julie Murphy — is the first in a couple of movie projects Aniston has with Netflix. Her character is named Rosie Dickson, a former beauty queen and is still actively hosting and organizing beauty pageants in their community.
The upcoming movie revolves around the differences she has with her daughter Willowdean. The plus-size teenager, nicknamed Dumplin’ by Aniston’s Rosie, grew up being compared to her mom and being laughed at for not meeting people’s limited standards of beauty. So, one day, she decides to shut down her detractors by signing up for the Miss Teen Bluebonnet organized by no less than her mom.
“One of the reasons I really loved the mother-daughter aspect of it was because it was very similar in a way to what my mother, and our relationship, was,” Jennifer Aniston told the Sunday Telegraph (via PEOPLE) while promoting the movie. Like Dumplin’, Aniston recalled how it was growing up with a mother like Nancy Dow, who passed away in 2016. She was a model and appeared in several movies, most of them were released in the ‘60s.
Aniston added that, since Dow was known for being a model, her late mother was “all about presentation.” Unfortunately, as the actress candidly reminisced, she felt like she did not become “the model child [her mother] hoped for.”
Back in the August 2018 cover story for InStyle magazine, Jennifer Aniston also said she was not very confident as a kid. She even described herself as the sort of kid that got bullied.
“I was one of the kids who the others would decide to make fun of. It was an odd period of time during fifth, sixth, seventh grades. I was a little on the chubby side, so I was just that kid. Childhood is such a vulnerable time, and I’m sure a part of me believed all that they teased me about,” Aniston told her friend and interviewer Molly McNearney.
In the end, Jennifer Aniston is confident that “Dumplin’” is a very timely movie “stripping away those preconceived notions of beauty.” It will start streaming on Netflix on Friday, Dec. 7.
