How Jennifer Aniston 'Just Fell in Love' with First Dog Norman During Joey and ChandlerFriendsScene (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Photo:Sandy Kim, Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers

Sandy Kim, Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers

Jennifer Anistonis now a children’s book author.

“When they came to me with the idea, it was like, ‘Obviously I’ll make it about something that I fully love and adore, which is my rescue animals,’” she explains.

Aniston with Clyde.Courtesy of Jennifer Aniston

Courtesy of Jennifer Aniston

The booklaunches concurrently with her newClydeo Fund, which will help raise money and awareness for rescue organizations, as well. “We can get awareness out and help the shelters that are in desperate need,” she says. “They can’t keep up. And all you see is that we’re euthanizing innocent, beautiful, perfectly fine two-year-old dogs, or a puppy, or a litter. I can’t. It’s too much. It’s too many.”

Lord Chesterfield and Clyde.Jennifer Aniston/Instagram

Jennifer Aniston/Instagram

Along with Clyde, Aniston also has another rescue dog,Lord Chesterfield. The two follow Aniston’s first two dogs, Norman, who died in 2011, and Dolly, who died in 2019 and remain deeply meaningful to her still. “You mention them, and I get a lump in my throat,” she says.

Aniston’s new children’s book.Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers

Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers

On the set, the dog trainers told the actress, “‘Well, he’s not getting hired because he doesn’t really hit his mark,'” she says. “So I jokingly said, ‘I’ll take him.’ And they said, ‘Absolutely.’ And then I kind of had that moment of, ‘Oh God, am I really?’ And then that was it. I got the addiction to dogs and what they bring to you. Cut to now wanting to rescue all shelter puppies in the world.”

For more information and to donate, visitwww.theclydeofund.org.

source: people.com