Does Jennifer Aniston want to be a cougar?
If she does, she’ll be in good company. Cougars are exceedingly popular in Hollywood, it seems. A cougar is defined as an older woman who dates or marries a younger man. Historically, Tinsel Town has been an environment particularly amenable to cougars, and indeed even today they are stalking and ambushing their prey. (Hey, who isn’t?)
Courtney Cox Arquette, 46 is a cougar of note, both on TV and in real life. However, she married her prey, David Arquette, 39.
Her post-Friends project is Cougar Town, which she not only stars in, but executive produces. The show tells the story about a 40-ish divorcee [Cox], navigating the dating scene. It’s no Friends, but definitely holds its’ own.
She says, “I don’t take offense to the word. David’s much younger than me and he loves older women. I mean, why not date someone younger if you can?” The show definitely adds appeal to the cougars; men want to date them, and women want to be them.
Lisa Kudrow guest-starred on the show, now Cox-Arquette wants her former Friends co-star, Jennifer Aniston to join her ranks.
“She’s younger than me so she can’t play my contemporary even though she did on Friends,” Cox tells ncdailynews, “but I think we can find something great for her to play.”
Aniston has been flirting with cougar-hood at least since Friends, where she once played a cougar. Her most recent beau, John Mayer is several years her junior. While John Mayer’s maturity resembles someone far younger than he, I’m not sure he qualifies. Cougars are generally further apart in age.
She is slated to star in another cougar role, the upcoming Speilberg movie, Pumas.
“It’s sort of a female Wedding Crashers. It’s about these girls who aspire to become cougars. They just paaarty! Young party girls who just find hot young guys to play with and then dump them. Why can’t women do it?”
Indeed.
Sounds like she is well on her way to cougarhood.
c. 2010
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