1. She's still best-known as the prettiest, most-chic-haircut-iest of the three women on Friends.

• For starring in endearing yet slight sitcom, thus making a case for herself as the late 20th century Sally Field: +4

2. She made a big splash –- and elevated herself from sitcom cutie to bona fide sex symbol -- by posing nude for Rolling Stone.

• For cashing in on the everything-but-the-nipples nudity tease, before (a) the internet made such stunts obsolete and (b) America lost interest in naked women over the age of nineteen: +2

3. She formed one-half of Hollywood's most photogenic couple by marrying Brad Pitt in 2000.

• For crossing the TV-movie membrane, and ensuring herself a yearly invite to the Oscars: +2
• For marrying someone prettier than she is.: -1

4. Onscreen, she worked to shrug off her sitcom pedigree by taking "stretch" roles in films such as Rock Star and The Good Girl.

• If by "stretch," you mean "Rachel as a rock widow" and "Rachel works at Wal-Mart": -1

5. She proved herself a box-ofice draw in hits like Bruce Almighty and Along Came Polly.

• Then again, we can't recall anyone in line for either film saying, "Man, I love Jennifer Aniston movies": -1

Mate Rating » 5 out of 10

When Stars Split: The Methodology

When you're a fully-fledged celebrity, doing nothing in your spare time but appearing on talk shows and soaking up free champagne at movie premieres, it stands to reason that the only people you ever meet are other celebrities. Hence: The All-Celebrity Hook-up, which very often makes a successful transition to The All-Celebrity Relationship.

But the overwhelming majority of All-Celebrity Relationships carry the seeds of their own destruction: each mate is forever being exposed to other likely prospects, the public gets bored seeing the same two faces together all the time, and let's face it: breakups get much more press than happy marriages do.

When Stars Split is a service of Fametracker for celebrities ending their relationships with other celebrities. Fametracker will use this space to determine who in recently busted-up celeb/celeb pairings leaves the partnership with the advantage, and who leaves used-up and broken-down.

1. He stimulated saliva glands across the country with a small but eye-catching role in 1991's Thelma and Louise.

• Ouch! My eyes are caught on these abs!: +3
• Hmmmm. Yummy abs: +2

2. He singlehandedly convinced millions of women to watch a movie about fly-fishing. Fly fishing!

• Hmmmm. Yummy hip-waders: +2

3. He broke off his engagement to Gwyneth Paltrow after a well-publicized, fairy-tale courtship.

• For even making Gwyneth Paltrow look good, insofar as she was too skinny to block the view of Brad: +1

4. He's an avid amateur architect, who'd hoped to serve a year-long apprenticeship with renowned master Frank Gehry.

• Gehry wisely rebuffed him, perhaps because Gehry knew he couldn't create architectural masterpieces with a huge boner in his pants!: -1
• Hmmmm. "Rebuffed": +1

5. He's risen to become one of Hollywood's true male A-list stars, headlining dozens of movies.

• And with nary a hit among them!: +2
• When you're that pretty, twitchy isn't annoying, it's an Oscar nomination!: +2
• For filling out those suits in Ocean's Eleven and Twelve. And introducing us to those previously unknown muscle groups around the groinal area (his, not ours) in Fight Club. And providing oxygenated blood to those abs, which, after Troy, may now decide to launch a career of their own: +5

Mate Rating » 17 out of 10

Yes, it's true. Hollywood's shiniest super-couple has split, despite those recent, stage-managed vacation photos of them on the beach on the island of Werestillinlovia. (A popular celebrity couple destination.) Apparently, partying all summer on George Clooney's yacht isn't, as it turns out, good for your marriage. So who'll fare better after this seismic split? Need you even ask? We love Jennifer Aniston as much as anyone, but fame-wise, she's now gone from former-sitcom-star- and-one-half-of- Hollywood's-hottest-couple to...well, everything except that last part. Whereas he is Brad Pitt, the man women want to do and men want to be –- and, well, okay, maybe do as well, but don't tell anyone. He's Bradicus Pitticus, who's sustained a flourishing career while only making one movie (Seven) that people actually liked, and half of those people only liked it because, at the end, Gwyneth Paltrow's head ended up in a box. (Now he's free to marry me!) If he can survive Meet Joe Black, we're pretty sure he can survive this. After all, he's still got those golden abs, right? Right? Maybe we should check, one more time.