Jennifer Aniston's boyfriend, Jim Curtis spoke about his past health issues and revealed that the experience was scary for him.
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Add BollywoodShaadis on GoogleJennifer Aniston and her beloved boyfriend, Jim Curtis, have been candid about their earlier health issues. The couple made a rare joint public appearance at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on September 2, 2026, to celebrate Curtis' new book, The Book of Possibility. Jim opened up about the partial paralysis he had faced, which affected him in his early 20s.
Jim Curtis, a 50-year-old hypnotist, spoke about his health journey that shaped his entire perspective and outlook. He also revealed that he discovered lesions on his spinal cord that had caused him a lot of chronic nerve damage and partial paralysis back in his 20s. This had a major impact on his 20s. Speaking about the scary diagnosis, he shared:
"I found myself in the hospital one night because I was having such severe pain in my body, and in a New York City emergency room, I was there for 13 hours, and it was maybe 2:00 a.m., and the nurse came, and I said, ‘Is the doctor going to see me? What are you working me up for?’ And she said, ‘A diagnosis right after that. And it was a really scary diagnosis.”
Curtis then Googled the diagnosis when he was in the hospital and felt as if his body had frozen, and he seized up out of fear of what Google had to say about this. Curtis then stated that he had fought through this fear and thought to himself that tomorrow would change everything.
The hypnotist acknowledged many shifts in perspective and that he had taken some time to understand the situation. Jim shared that one can make their struggles their power as soon as one accepts and loves them. In her words:
"I’m not saying here that the doctor tells you to do something you should get up and leave. What I’m saying is that you don’t have to live as the victim. You don’t have to live in your suffering.”
Before Jim could even accept the impact of his injuries, he had earlier told PEOPLE how he had been in a motorcycle accident. Curtis shared that he felt so ashamed after having a medical condition that he thought that he was broken in some way. In his words:
"I thought the motorcycle accident was at least a little macho.”
He shared that he was able to “overcome” those feelings through “self-acceptance and self-love,” although it was certainly “a long journey in which he realized he could have done it quicker."
During the conversation, Curtis, who is also a life coach, was asked what to do if someone were at a crossroads. The question asked was, "If someone said to you, ‘I’m at this crossroads, and I am stuck, and I’m in this rat race of a life, and I’m fully invested, but I know that’s not my calling. My soul, my heart is screaming to do something else. How would you help coach someone through that?” Curtis shared:
“I’m not a proponent of ‘drop everything and leave. That [acceptance] was 25 years in the making for me. There’s a reality of life too. You have rent to pay and medical bills to pay and kids to feed, all of your stuff. But I will say this: you don’t have to let fear stop you from living your dream. You can manifest at any time by placing your focus on the outcomes that you want.”
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