--- description: The 'Friends' star covered Rolling Stone before Kardashian covered Paper magazine title: Jennifer Aniston on Kim Kardashian Butt Photo: I Was the Original image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Jennifer Aniston on Kim Kardashian's Butt Photo: I Was the Original  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 23, 2014 3:01 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 23, 2014 3:01 PM CUT If the Internet in 1996 wasn’t already slow and limping thanks to dial-up, [Jennifer Aniston probably would have #BrokenIt](http://www.people.com/article/jennifer-aniston-original-kim-kardashian-butt-pic-graham-norton "undefined"). Nearly 18 years before Kim [“Break the Internet”](http://time.com/3580809/kim-kardashian-butt-paper-magazine/ "undefined") Kardashian posed nude for the cover of _Paper_ magazine and threatened to destroy the web as we know, it the _Friends_ star posed for _Rolling Stone_ in a cover shot that showed off her butt. “I was an original, all right?” Aniston joked to _Extra_ on Thursday at the Los Angeles premiere of _Horrible Bosses 2_. “Sorry, Kim K.” Aniston did say, however, that Kardashian — whom _Vogue_ editor Anna Wintour recently [suggested was not “deeply tasteful”](https://time.com/3595368/anna-wintour-kim-kardashian-kanye-west-vogue-cover/ "undefined") — was a little more in-your-face on _Paper_ than the actress was on _Rolling Stone_. “That was just innocent,” she said. “There’s nothing aggressive about that.” \[[_People_](http://www.people.com/article/jennifer-aniston-original-kim-kardashian-butt-pic-graham-norton "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3601325/jennifer-aniston-kim-kardashian-butt-photo-paper-cover/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3601325/jennifer-aniston-kim-kardashian-butt-photo-paper-cover/"},"headline":"Jennifer Aniston on Kim Kardashian's Butt Photo: I Was the Original","datePublished":"2014-11-23T15:01:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:21.270Z","description":"The Friends star's bottom covered Rolling Stone before Kardashian's derrière covered Paper","url":"https://time.com/3601325/jennifer-aniston-kim-kardashian-butt-photo-paper-cover/","keywords":["celebrities","Living","Friends","Kim Kardashian","jennifer aniston"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/celebrities/","name":"celebrities"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3601325/jennifer-aniston-kim-kardashian-butt-photo-paper-cover/","name":"Jennifer Aniston on Kim Kardashian's Butt Photo: I Was the Original"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Big Money in Backsides","description":"Make all the jokes you want. There are a lot of businesses playing a very specific and very lucrative endgame, if you will.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/w8gIu6Ex/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-11-12T15:31:05.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/w8gIu6Ex.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3601325/jennifer-aniston-kim-kardashian-butt-photo-paper-cover/","duration":"PT1M42S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3601325/jennifer-aniston-kim-kardashian-butt-photo-paper-cover/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```