Jennifer Aniston is proving life begins at 50 after 'breaking' Instragram with Friends selfie

Jennifer Aniston is proving life begins after 50.

Last week, she broke Instagram and hurtled into the Guinness World Records for reaching a million followers fastest after she shared a selfie with her former Friends castmates on Tuesday.

Her debut snap helped saw it take just five hours and 16 minutes to amass the milestone and she now has more than 12million followers.

And the actress, who reached her age milestone in February, reckoned it’s another example of how society’s claim that it’s over, especially for woman at 50, is old hat.

She said: “It’s just old society messaging that, once you hit this age, that’s when it’s over. I am my age now and I feel like I am just beginning a whole new chapter of my creativity and my career.”

But she adds she has never felt the ageism many older female actresses have in Hollywood.

Jennifer said: “Honestly, I feel like I have worked more since I turned 40 than I ever did and I don’t see it slowing down any time soon.”

Back in the 90s, Jennifer was that big, her character Rachel Green’s hair became so copied it was known in hairdressers’ as the “Rachel” cut.

And while Friends may have finished in 2004, Tuesday’s reunion Insta post shows they are just as popular.

Jennifer’s blurry selfie with Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc – and message “Now we’re Instagram Friends too”, caused her profile to crash and some fans couldn’t follow her for a time.

Since the show finished, Jennifer and Courteney, 55, have stayed close, often holidaying together.

But for fans seeing the cast together was exciting. They know it, too, and are desperate to work together again – but not rebooting Friends.

Reuniting was, Jennifer said, like: “Going home. We have the best time together and we’re always trying to think of something to do. We just have to figure out what the right thing is but we will.”

Sadly, it seems the producers Marta Kauffman and David Crane don’t want to find out what happened to the Friends for fear of ruining the show’s legacy.

Marta told Rolling Stone ­magazine: “The show is about a time in your life when your friends are your family. It’s not that time any more.

“All we’d be doing is putting those six actors back together but the heart of the show would be gone. The show is doing just fine, people love it. A reunion could only disappoint.”

By “doing just fine”, she means millennials have discovered Friends after Netflix bought the rights to stream it, 25 years after it first aired.

And speaking about the new generation of fans, she said: “To have a new generation of ­children adoring the show as much as they did when it was airing for the first time is incredible.”

Jennifer has become the most successful of the Friends stars, with films like Marley & Me, We’re the Millers and Horrible Bosses. She stars and produces films.

Her latest this year was Murder Mystery, which was Netflix’s biggest opening weekend for a film with more than 30million households watching it in the first 72 hours.

On November 1, her ­latest TV series will launch.

The Morning Show has been ­chosen to launch Apple’s streaming service AppleTV+.

The comedy drama pitches two of Hollywood’s leading ladies against each other.

Jen plays veteran breakfast TV news anchor Alex Levy who, after her co-presenter retires, faces a battle to keep her job from Reese ­Witherspoon’s ambitious ­journalist, Bradley Jackson.

The premise of the show sees Steve Carell’s character Mitch Kessler fired for sexual misconduct.

Jennifer, who also produces the series, revealed they had to include the #MeToo movement.

But she argued: “When #MeToo happened, we had to ­incorporate that into the story and the world but we address all kinds of topics.

“It all adds to the richness of the material.”

MeToo blew up in 2017 as The Morning Show was filming, following the sexual abuse allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

Jennifer said: “I think we have to honour what was happening out in the world.”

Reese and Jennifer first worked together when the latter was a Friends guest star, playing Rachel’s sister Jill in series six.

Jennifer added: “I just remember us having a really good time. She says she was nervous but she didn’t seem it to any of us.”

Reese, 43, is already at the vanguard of new female lead TV, starring and co-producing Big Little Lies.

And Jennifer sees this strong female presence on TV in shows like Killing Eve or Orange is the New Black as a form of power.

She added: “I feel that power is the ability to have a voice and use it properly.

“I just feel so proud to be part of launching a new network and being the first show for Apple.

But we are just two of a lot of women involved with this.”