--- title: Jennifer Aniston Opens Up About Struggling With Dyslexia description: "I thought I wasn't smart" canonical: https://time.com/3676937/jennifer-aniston-dyslexia/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-21T19:01:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:37.898Z og:title: Jennifer Aniston Opens Up About Struggling With Dyslexia og:description: "I thought I wasn't smart" og:url: https://time.com/3676937/jennifer-aniston-dyslexia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt270457fd4bfc8eee/69877b195f570f6cb3b14d64/jennifer-aniston-hollywood-reporter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1969 og:image:height: 1108 og:image:alt: jennifer-aniston-hollywood-reporter og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jennifer Aniston Opens Up About Struggling With Dyslexia twitter:description: "I thought I wasn't smart" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt270457fd4bfc8eee/69877b195f570f6cb3b14d64/jennifer-aniston-hollywood-reporter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jennifer Aniston Opens Up About Struggling With Dyslexia > Sponsored content. 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Growing up, Aniston thought she just wasn’t a good student. “I thought I wasn’t smart,” she said. “I just couldn’t retain anything.” But things changed in her early 20’s when she went into an innocuous eye exam for glasses and came out with a diagnosis for dyslexia. “Now, I had this great discovery,” she said. “I felt like all of my childhood trauma-dies, tragedies, dramas were explained.” [Read more at _THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jennifer-aniston-reveals-struggles-dyslexia-764854) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3676937/jennifer-aniston-dyslexia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3676937/jennifer-aniston-dyslexia/"},"headline":"Jennifer Aniston Opens Up About Struggling With Dyslexia","datePublished":"2015-01-21T19:01:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:37.898Z","description":"\"I thought I wasn't smart\"","url":"https://time.com/3676937/jennifer-aniston-dyslexia/","keywords":["Living","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt270457fd4bfc8eee/69877b195f570f6cb3b14d64/jennifer-aniston-hollywood-reporter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt270457fd4bfc8eee/69877b195f570f6cb3b14d64/jennifer-aniston-hollywood-reporter.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jennifer-aniston-hollywood-reporter","caption":"","creditText":"The Hollywood Reporter","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3676937/jennifer-aniston-dyslexia/","name":"Jennifer Aniston Opens Up About Struggling With Dyslexia"}}]}] ```