As Jennifer Aniston cosies up with hunky Wall Street trader turned New Age healer Jim Curtis, all of Hollywood is asking: Has he finally fixed her broken heart?

After two failed marriages, Jennifer Aniston says she is happy being single at 56. She had accepted that motherhood was no longer on the agenda, focused on her career, and was happy to have a wide circle of friends and be with her dogs.

He admitted that he wouldn’t rule out another romance, but he wasn’t actively looking. But if he found someone special, he would want it to be someone from outside the industry.

Last week, Aniston’s wish appeared to come true when she and her new boyfriend, Jim Curtis, officially shared a black-and-white photo on Instagram of the couple cuddling in celebration of her 50th birthday.

‘Happy birthday my love. “I’m under consideration,” Aniston wrote in her caption, alongside a heart emoji.

“If this is a dream, I don’t want to wake up,” Curtis enthusiastically responded on his own Instagram account.

So who is this handsome, silver-haired stranger who suddenly won the heart of the actress, known for her role in Friends and currently starring in the popular Apple TV series The Morning Show?

The virtually unknown, divorced father of a teenage son couldn’t be more different from Aniston’s two ex-husbands, actors Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux.

Just as he wanted, he is not a star in Hollywood, but a well-known and influential figure in the ‘wellness’ industry working as a hypnotherapist and life coach.

Jennifer Aniston, 56, made her relationship with her ‘love guru’ boyfriend Jim Curtis official on Instagram last week, wishing him a happy birthday.

He started out as a trader on Wall Street, but made it his mission to help others after experiencing his own physical and mental health problems at the age of 22 when doctors found lesions on his spinal cord that caused him to walk with a noticeable limp.

A source close to Aniston said she and Curtis have known each other much longer than people realize. ‘They had been friends for a long time but romance only blossomed in the summer. He’s a down to earth guy and everyone loves him. This makes it seem boring, but it’s not. He can hold his own, he’s funny, and he’s genuinely charming. Moreover, it has nothing to do with his world (acting), which is great.

‘Jim has embarked on a profound health journey and has spent his life helping others suffering from chronic diseases. He’s incredibly down-to-earth and unimpressed by things like fame.

‘He adores Jen and supports her 100 percent, but he’s not someone who wants to go out all the time. They are both homebodies. They watch a lot of movies and meet up with friends instead of going out on the town.

‘It helped her open up in ways she never had before. He is a good man and she trusts him. They laugh a lot and he teaches her to accept her stupidity and not take life too seriously.

‘None of us have ever seen him this happy and relaxed. She’s glowing and so in love.’

His world may be far from red carpets, private jets and public respect, but Curtis has a back story worthy of a Hollywood script. In a 2018 interview with business magazine Fast Company, he described how his health first emerged when he was in the prime of his life.

‘It was unknown how it started, but I became ill very quickly and soon had difficulty walking,’ he said.

‘My illness was telling me something about my perception of who I was’ [which to me] Was this the macho man? ‘I was an athlete and had plans to work on Wall Street.’

Looking back, he said it was the wrong decision to enter the pressurized atmosphere of the American Stock Exchange in New York. ‘It was very high stress, which was provocative and devastating for a situation like mine. It increased symptoms of pain and fatigue and introduced new symptoms such as IBS. [irritable bowel syndrome] and other things I can’t control.’

After two years on Wall Street, he began working in sales in digital health media and helped launch the WebMD health network, which now has millions of monthly users.

In 2003, Curtis married Rachel Napolitano. Their meetings themselves have the feel of a romantic comedy: While watching a television program one evening in 1998, he told one of the guests that he had stumbled upon a beautiful consultant in the ancient Chinese practice of feng shui.

He told his friends: ‘I want to date a girl who looks like this.’

Entering the pressurized atmosphere of the American Stock Exchange in New York was the wrong decision for Curtis

A source said of Curtis’ influence on Aniston: ‘He helped her open up in ways she never had before. He’s a good man and she trusts him.’

The following year, he chatted up an attractive cocktail waitress at a bar in New York. He also worked as a consultant on feng shui, which focuses on the arrangement of objects in the home to create harmony. ‘He was really smart. We talked about spirituality,’ Curtis recalled.

It wasn’t until months later that he realized that Rachel was the same girl he had seen on TV that night.

The marriage resulted in the birth of their son, but for unknown reasons it did not last long. Napolitano seems to be keeping a low profile and has yet to comment on her ex-husband’s new romance.

As a single man, Curtis continued to seek alternative practitioners to help with his health problems, with varying success.

He once visited a so-called shaman in New York who claimed he could cure Curtis’ injury.

‘He told me to take off all my clothes and lie down on a dirty, old rug in front of him… He burned some sage branches, hit my back and legs with burning sage sticks, and blew cigarette smoke into my face. The scene was so surreal I started laughing,” Curtis recalled.

Curtis, who was reliant on a cane, was initially ashamed of his condition, telling people he had injured himself falling off a motorcycle because he thought it was macho.

He recalled ‘consuming a lot of bad food and alcohol’ and being 50 kilos overweight while working as a traveling salesman for healthcare companies.

A turning point came when Curtis decided to speak about his condition in front of 700 people at a healthcare industry event, saying he realized it was better to be open about the challenges he was facing.

The wellness pioneer also embarked on an Indiana Jones-style journey to find and be treated by non-traditional healers around the world before becoming a healer and life coach.

He described these adventures in his 2017 book The Stimulati Experience. These included sessions with Ecuadorian shamans and the great masters of kung fu and Qigong, ancient Chinese practices that combine movement, deep breathing and meditation to strengthen the body.

Along the way, she became a New Age fanatic who studied “neuro-linguistic programming” (how our thoughts influence behavior) to “better understand the unconscious mind” and became a certified Institute of Integrative Nutrition health coach. He also describes himself as a ‘student of human interaction’ and a ‘subconscious strategist’.

Curtis’ day job is coaching clients on how to be successful with their health, careers and relationships. Picture: Jennifer Aniston and Jim Curtis

Today, her day job is coaching clients on how to be successful with their health, careers and relationships. ‘I guide people on how to get the job done, despite the obstacles they may have in their mind,’ he says.

Some of the advice he gives is certainly interesting. Her list of lifestyle changes to improve her health includes: ‘Put a stone in your shoe. If you want to change your behavior and create gratitude. Live in discomfort.’

As advice for recovering from heartbreak, he suggests: ‘Sleep on the other side of the bed. ‘When you change your routine, new neural pathways form in the brain.’

He gives the following advice to those looking for love: ‘Love yourself first. When you love yourself, you will attract more love to yourself.’

She shares this motivational and self-improvement content with her 806,000 followers on Instagram, but she also gets the stamp of approval from Aniston, who has likely suffered her share of heartbreaks and disappointments.

At the height of her fame, she married heartthrob actor Brad Pitt in a lavish wedding ceremony in 2000, making them Hollywood’s golden couple.

It all came to an end just five years later, when Pitt fell in love with his co-star Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Ten years later, she found love again, this time with actor Justin Theroux, whom she married in 2015; However, three years later, that marriage also came to a halt.

It’s unclear whether Curtis’ reputation as a healer is why he’s on his famous new girlfriend’s radar. They were reportedly introduced by a mutual acquaintance and were first photographed together during a trip to Majorca in July, where they were joined by Aniston’s close acting friend Jason Bateman and his wife Amanda Anka.

They were also spotted at a couples’ night out in Malibu with Friends star Courteney Cox and her musician boyfriend Johnny McDaid.

Aniston opened up about her struggle with infertility since meeting Curtis, describing how she ‘did everything she could’ to have a child, including difficult and ultimately unsuccessful in vitro fertilization treatments in her 30s and 40s.

Speaking on a podcast last month, she said: ‘When people say ‘but you can adopt’, I don’t want to adopt. I want my DNA in a little human. It’s the only way, selfish or not, whatever it is, I wanted it.

‘Whatever the plan was, it wasn’t in the plan. It’s very emotional, especially the moment when they say ‘this is it’ because it’s a weird moment when it happens.’

Curtis was with her at the premiere of The Morning Show’s fourth season last month, but stayed out of the spotlight.

Her next big project is to star in the TV adaptation of I’m Glad My Mom Died, actress Jennette McCurdy’s bestselling memoir about her persistent stage mother.

So far Curtis has passed the all-important friendship test and everyone seems to love him and believe they make a great couple.

Television personality Bethenny Frankel, who said she dated Curtis nearly a decade ago, said: ‘I truly believe they have found each other’s ‘forever’.’

Best-selling self-help author Gabrielle Bernstein, who wrote the foreword for Curtis’ book, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Jim is a lovely guy. ‘I’m so excited that she found love.’

Amid the wave of goodwill, celebrities in Hollywood have also voiced their approval of Curtis and are hoping Aniston falls in love with her hunky hypnotist for the third time.