There was a time in the mid-1990s when women besieged salons with photos of Jennifer Aniston to copy her haircut.

The layered cut was given the name The Rachel after Ms Aniston’s character in the Friends television comedy series, Rachel Green. She wore the style in the show’s first and second seasons.

One person who was not a fan of “the Rachel”, however, was Ms Aniston herself.

Ms Aniston, now 41, tells the February issue of the US magazine Allure it was not her best look.

“How do I say this? I think it was the ugliest haircut I’ve ever seen,” she says. “What I really want to know is, how did that thing have legs?”

Ms Aniston’s long-time hairstylist Chris McMillan came up with the cut. He still works with her today.