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A source close to Jennifer Aniston has painted rumors of her having an affair with former President Barack Obama as being “beyond absurd.” Additionally, rumors of an impending divorce between the Obamas has also been shut down.
The unfounded rumors about an affair between Jennifer Aniston and Barack Obama began back in August 2024 when the gossip tabloid InTouch Weekly — one of the magazines you find out the check-out isles in grocery stores — ran an article titled “The Truth About Jen and Barack!”, claiming that “Michelle feels betrayed as Aniston steals her husband’s attention.”
Speaking to Vanity Fair, however, a person with alleged knowledge of the situation said that these rumors are “categorically untrue,” while an additional source whose reportedly close to Aniston called the rumors “beyond absurd.’”
Back in October, Aniston herself was asked about the rumors of an affair with the former President of the United States by Jimmy Kimmel, who pulled up the InTouch Weekly cover story as a prop.
“That is absolutely untrue. There is no truth… I’ve met him once. I know Michelle more than him,” Aniston said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! back in October.
“Of all the calls you get from your publicist where you’re like, ‘Oh no, what’s it gonna be?’ Or emails saying some cheesy tabloid is going to make up a story, and then it’s that. I was not mad at it,” she joked.
Aniston, who was famously in a high profile relationship and marriage with Brad Pitt in the early 2000s before being married to Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2018, has been single (at least publicly) since splitting with Theroux in 2018.
In recent years, Aniston has been starring on the popular AppleTV+ series The Morning Show (she’s appeared in just two movies since 2019, both Murder Mystery films with Adam Sandler), while Obama has gotten into the content production business with his company Higher Ground Productions, which has produced both feature films, such as Leave the World Behind and Rustin, TV series (Bodkin and Starting 5), and documentaries such as the Oscar-winning American Factory.