Aniston Removes Wedding Ring ?

Q: Actress Jennifer Aniston has fueled speculation her marriage to Brad Pitt is in turmoil - by taking off her wedding ring. Rumors the relationship is deteriorating were first sparked during filming of Mr. And Mrs. Smith this summer when Pitt was romantically linked to his co-star Angelina Jolie. The ex-Friends star added to the gossip by canceling the Troy hunk's 41st birthday party she'd agreed to host, weeks after reports she refused to have his first child. And Aniston increased beliefs about their crumbling romance by wearing her wedding ring when she left London's Dorchester Hotel - where the couple had been staying during Pitt's promotional tour for movie Ocean's Twelve - but removing it when she landed at Los Angeles' airport on Sunday. A source tells British newspaper The Sun, "Jennifer never takes her ring off, it's her absolute pride and joy. It is very unusual that she wasn't wearing it."

A:They had, it was thought, the perfect Hollywood marriage - an ideal union of beautiful sitcom star and movie heartthrob. But four years after marrying Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston appears to have dispensed with her wedding ring. The 35-year-old Friends actress was spotted in Los Angeles on Sunday without her diamond-studded white gold band as she prepared to do some last-minute Christmas shopping. Reports that the couple's marriage was under strain have been rife in recent months. Rumours that all was not well first surfaced in May when Pitt was seen holding hands with actress Angelina Jolie on the set of forthcoming movie Mr and Mrs Smith. Despite vehement denials by everyone involved that the couple had grown close, speculation grew that a split would be announced at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where Pitt was promoting Troy and Miss Jolie was promoting Shark Tale. But Miss Aniston decided at the last minute to accompany her husband to the Riviera and pictures of the couple cuddling on the red carpet put a temporary end to the rumours. So what, is Brad Pitt's sperm sacred now? Is Jennifer committing some sort of sacrilege if she doesn't want to bear his child? What, he's God now, and the child is the second coming of Jesus? Oh no, the world might have one less spoiled, heroin-shooting, club-hopping celebrity kid. Horrors! I wouldn't have his kid or anyone else's. Some of us DON'T WANT KIDS. Maybe Jen doesn't want kids. That's her choice. No, it isn't. She married him and promised him children--and then she refuses (allegedly) to have them. That's grounds for divorce, and it's complete contrary to the "normal" concept of marriage--and their specific idea of it, too. It's completely different from the situation with two random people trying to decide whether to procreate.

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