"We ran over," Aniston recalled. "Sophie came right up to us… and then we were there for three hours! I was almost walking out with three puppies. That's why we named her Sophie cause it was 'Sophie's Choice.' I was crying, it was so hard." To New York magazine, she described Sophie as "the most adorable little cookie you've ever seen. She looks like she just smoked an exploding cigar."
They later added terrier Clyde to their menagerie as well. (Incidentally, Clyde was also the name of the Labrador retriever Aniston and Owen Wilson co-starred with in Marley & Me.)
Eventually Aniston got to tell Dolly Parton in person, at a concert about nine years ago, that she had named one of her dogs after her.
"I guess I slightly offended her," Aniston mused on Jimmy Kimmel Live last year about the country music legend. "I just think it's cute. She's so sweet."
But by then they were collaborating on the Netflix movie Dumplin', so Parton was more charmed than anything else.
"I'm very touched when people have known me so long or to say that I've been an inspiration, but you really know when you've got a true fan when someone like Jennifer Aniston says, 'I named my dog Dolly Parton,'" Parton quipped to E! News in 2017. "She's got a dog, and I said, 'Is that a compliment?'"
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