Jennifer Aniston Finally Opens Up About Her Struggles To Get Pregnant: "It Was A Challenging Road For Me"
Hollywood veteran Jennifer Aniston is known to many as the "girl next door" after she rose to fame for her popular role in the hit show "Friends." There have been many speculations over the years about why she never had children, and she's finally addressing the rumors and setting the record straight about her struggles to get pregnant.
She's one of the most recognizable faces in the world, but Jennifer Aniston, 53, is opening up about some of the most intimate details of her life that hardly anyone knows about. She was married to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005, and he was very famously with Angelina Jolie from 2005 to 2016. The couple raised six children together and rumors circulated for years that one of the reasons Brad ended things with Jennifer was because she wasn't interested in having kids with him. But in a recent interview with Allure, Jennifer clears the air about her desire to be a mother.
Jennifer Aniston Finally Opens up about Her Struggles to Get Pregnant
Jennifer was in a relationship with Justin Theroux from 2011 to 2018 and they didn't have any children together, but she reveals that she struggled with infertility for a long time. In her late 30s and 40s, Jennifer went through "really hard sh*t" that made her who she is today and helped her transform from being "so fearful, so nervous, so unsure" of who she was. But that doesn't mean it was an easy road.
“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” she says.
"I had no idea," the interviewer replies.
"Yeah, nobody does," Jennifer says. “All the years and years and years of speculation... It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
At 53 years old, she knows she no longer has the chance to give birth, but she has "zero regrets" and there's "a little relief" in not wondering anymore whether there's a possibility. The thing that really hurt Jennifer over the years was the "narrative that I was just selfish." The tabloids made it out to be that she was just too self-involved and obsessed with her career to become a mother.
“I just cared about my career. And God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child. And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn’t give him a kid. It was absolute lies. I don’t have anything to hide at this point," she says.
In 2016, she wrote an op-end for The Huffington Post slamming the press for constantly writing news stories about her being pregnant. She thought to herself, "I’ve just got to write this because it’s so maddening and I’m not superhuman to the point where I can’t let it penetrate and hurt." She wrote about being "fed up" with the "sport-like scrutiny and body shaming that occurs daily under the guise of 'journalism.'" The article was cheered on by many women and celebrities.
Today she's happy at home with her dogs but she's still single and open to a relationship. "There are moments I want to just crawl up in a ball and say, ‘I need support.’ It would be wonderful to come home and fall into somebody’s arms and say, ‘That was a tough day,’” she admits.