Jennifer Aniston, who is showing up on talk shows a lot recently, promoting her new movie “The Switch” made a harmful remark on the Live with Regis & Kelly Show on Thursday.

Aniston is known quite well as a great actor, and “sweet heart” of Hollywood. However, even the best of us make comments that we wish we could take back.

Regis and Kelly were talking to her about her Barbra Streisand-inspired shoot, when Regis innocently asked her, “So you got to play dress up?”

Jennifer Aniston replied, “Yeah, I got to play dress up. I do it for a living, like a retard.”

Of course Aniston didn’t mean to use the word retard, knowing quite well it would offend thousands of viewers, but it slipped out. At the time, the audience laughed at her comment, but others were highly offended.

Kirsten Seckler, a spokeswoman for the Special Olympics had this to say:

“Sadly, people use the word pervasively even if they don’t realize it. People with intellectual disabilities have fought their whole lives for understanding and recognition. When people continue to use the R word, it’s hurtful. Think before you speak especially when you’re making fun of yourself or others. We have a very passionate group of people advocating for change in their communities and schools to change the use of this word.”

Of course this will be forgotten in a few weeks, and everyone will go back to loving Jennifer Aniston once again. Just goes to show you how tough it is to be a celebrity in Hollywood.