Jennifer Aniston, who broke the internetTuesday when she finally debuted her own Instagram account, broke something else that day: a Guinness World Record.
The “Friends” alum’s social media endeavors will be immortalized in the Guinness Book of World Records, the organization announced in press release Wednesday. In just five hours and 16 minutes, Aniston collected one million followers, nabbing the title for fastest time to do so.
The previous record holders: Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, whose joint @sussexroyal account racked up a million followers in five hours and 45 minutes in April.
The actress, who has over 8 and a half million followers as of Wednesday afternoon, currently has one photo on her account: a selfie featuring her “Friends” co-stars, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry.
Though her caption doesn’t reveal much about when or where the photo was taken, Aniston opened up to Howard Stern last week about a recent reunion at Cox’s home over dinner.
“Schwimmer was in town, and we all happened to have a window of time, so we all got together,” she said on Stern’s radio program. “Oh my God, we laughed so hard.”
Aniston’s follow-to-follow ratio isn’t too bad: She’s following 110 users, including stars like Orlando Bloom, Jennifer Garner, Adam Sandler, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson, Oprah Winfrey, Jimmy Kimmel and her ex-husband Justin Theroux.
Theroux even left a sweet comment under her first post. ”Woot-Woot,” he wrote, adding a raised hand emoji, heart emoji, and the hashtag #first.
Though the two announced their split in February 2018, they have remained friendly. Theroux gave his former love an Instagram shout-out about a year later on her 50th birthday.
The actress, who may have first hit it big pre-Twitter or Instagram, recently told Entertainment Tonight she can appreciate the way it now allows big stars to speak directly to fans, with no middleman.
“You can actually have a little bit more control over the narrative that’s out there,” Aniston said. “(You can) right some wrongs and some silly things that, God knows, are said often.”
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