Both her parents were actors, but they didn’t encourage her to join the industry.

Jennifer Aniston and John Aniston at the premiere of “The Object of My Affection” (1998). Fred Prouser/Reuters

Aniston’s father, John Aniston, starred on “Days of Our Lives,” and her mother, Nancy Dow, starred on 1960s shows like “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “The Wild Wild West.”

But they weren’t exactly receptive to their daughter following in their footsteps.

In 2015, Aniston told Collider that although she had a love for the theater growing up in New York City, her parents were pretty strict on her time in front of the television.

“I was hell-bent because my dad was just begging me not to be in the industry.  He said, ‘I do not want your heart broken.  The rejection is brutal.  Please, please, please don’t do that.  Become a lawyer.’” she said. “That was my one rebellion.  I was hoping that I was going to make it so that I could prove him wrong.

She had plenty of jobs before landing her first acting gigs.

Jennifer Aniston worked briefly as a bike messenger in New York City. Barry King / Contributor

After pursuing musical-theater roles in high school, Aniston began auditioning in both New York City and Los Angeles while holding down several less-than-glamorous jobs.

At a 2011 press conference for her movie “Horrible Bosses,” she said, “The toughest job I’ve ever had was being a bike messenger in New York City. I was 19.”

She added that her worst day on the job was when she drove into an open car door. “I’m just very uncoordinated and extraordinarily klutzy. And I just never should have been allowed on a bicycle with cylinders,” she said.

She apparently lasted only two days, telling Collider, “It was really wrong to put me on a bike in New York City with taxi cabs.”

During this time, she also worked as an ice-cream scooper and a waitress.

In 1996, Aniston told Rolling Stone that she eventually moved to Hollywood, and “sold her soul” to take a job as a telemarketer, before snagging her first acting role.

Aniston said she rocked a goth look in high school.

Jennifer Aniston said she “wasn’t going for most beautiful” in high school. Ron Galella / Contributor

These days, she’s an A-list celebrity, but her high school years were a different story.

She told People magazine in 2016, “High school was tragic. Just not well-informed. You know, you’re experimenting. It was the ’80s and I looked like a goth nightmare.”

“I wasn’t going for most beautiful,” she added. “It was, ‘how can I be the most rebelliously unattractive?’”

She was on four different TV shows before “Friends.”