Jennifer Aniston was born on February 11, 1969 in Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles. Both her parents were well-known actors. Her father, John Aniston was best known for his role as Victor Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives, a popular soap opera on NBC TV network. Her Mother, Nancy Dow also made name for herself by her performances in a number of films and TV shows.

Jennifer spent the first part of her childhood in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, where the family shared a three bedroom house with her grandmother. There she started her education in an elementary school. Later the family shifted to New York City.

She was admitted to Waldorf School when she was six years old. Three years later her parents were separated. The divorce came through in 1980. She has a half brother named Alexander Aniston from her father’s second marriage.

Jennifer first started acting at the age of eleven while she was studying in Waldorf School. Later, she enrolled at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and graduated from there.

Below is a collection of some of interesting Jennifer Aniston’s childhood photos during the 1980s.

Jennifer Aniston and her seventh grade classmates took a wintry field trip to upstate New York in 1983.

An eighth grader at Rudolf Steiner School, she grinned with her pals, 1983.

The sporty eighth grader grinned with the basketball team at Rudolf Steiner School in NYC, 1983.

Jennifer posed with her volleyball teammates at Rudolf Steiner School, 1984. The athletic teen would later wow fans worldwide with her lean, sexy bod.

In this 1986 yearbook snapshot, Jennifer and her pals posed in NYC’s Central Park. As a wannabe actress at the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, she was dressed down by a drama teacher, who called her a “disgrace to theater.”

Portrait of Jennifer Aniston in 1986.

Jennifer posed for an intense, pretty yearbook photo her senior year in 1987.

Jennifer and Chastity Bono (Cher and Sonny Bono’s child, now Chaz) hung out in the girl’s locker room at the School of Performing Arts at LaGuardia High School in NYC, 1987.

Jennifer Aniston rocked a short, curly ‘do at her senior prom.