Jennifer Aniston recently appeared on Kimmy Kimmel Live!, opening up about her childhood with a Greek family.
The Friends star, who was on the show to promote her new children’s book ‘Clydeo Takes a Bite Out of Life’, revealed that her parents had her dance when they had guests over.
“You know. The Greeks love any kind of a family dinner, they would say, ‘Let’s get up and watch’ – it’s like when you say to your child, ‘Play piano for everyone, let’s sing for everyone’,” the 55-year-old said.
She added that seeing her friends do that to their kids now, brings back her memories from childhood.
“I get such anxiety when my friends do that to their children. I have inner trauma from having to perform and belly dance in front of my Greek aunts and uncles and grandmothers.”
This is not the first time Jennifer publicly shared about her belly dances as a child.
“When I was a kid, they used to make me belly dance. On Christmas Eve,” she told EW in 2016.
“My dad’s side of the family is Greek, so I would dress up as a little Greek girl, and then on Christmas, after taking belly-dancing classes, I would do that.
“It had nothing to do with Christmas, even. It was just ‘Let’s humiliate Jen on Christmas’.”