Jennifer Makes Good

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True or false? The Aniston-Pitt marriage is on the rocks; he's a homebody, and she prefers parties and premieres. "False," says Aniston. "What's fun about a premiere?" Aniston's most endearing trait may be that she's wholly lacking in movie-star pretension. She and Pitt are frequently spotted hanging out in L.A., easygoing and accessible, without an entourage or phalanx of bodyguards. They are often trailed by a photographer, but she doesn't gripe about the press. Not usually, anyway. Aniston recently settled--"amicably"--a lawsuit against two magazine publishers for running topless photos of her in 1999. "You pick your battles," she says. "I drew the line when someone crawled into my backyard and took a naked photo of me."

Except for the dozens of pricey sunglasses on a table by the front door, you wouldn't know a star lived in this modest house high above Sunset Boulevard. Books and papers are stacked everywhere. Part of the living room is a makeshift office. She has outgrown the place, yet her eyes well up when she talks about selling it. "I'm having moving-on anxiety," she says. "But it will be on the market when we get closer to moving into our damn home." That home is a stately mansion she and Pitt purchased in Beverly Hills for a reported $14 million. True or false? "That's something else," she says. "How expensive this mansion is. I'm not going to tell you how much it cost, but it's not ..." She stops herself, feeling silly for complaining. "It's funny to me," she says. "Whatever." With that, she shrugs and moves on to the next question.