Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her private 20-year struggle to conceive and criticized the speculation she faces for not having children.
The 56-year-old man Friends star, who currently appears in television dramas The morning programShe said she felt pressured to address “the narrative” that suggested she hadn't had children because she is “a selfish workaholic.”
“They didn't know my story, or what I had gone through over the last 20 years trying to start a family, because I don't come out and tell them about my medical problems,” Aniston said. Harper's Bazaar United Kingdom.
The actress said her personal life is nobody's business, but “there comes a point where you can't stop hearing the narrative that I'm not going to have a baby, I'm not going to have a family.”
He horrible bosses The star said that as he's gotten older, he cares less about correcting falsehoods “because eventually it will happen.”
“The news cycle is so fast that it just disappears,” he continued, but admitted that he had felt the speculation was unfair.
“Of course, there are times when I feel that sense of justice, when something has been said that is not true and I need to correct the mistake. And then I think, really? My family knows my truth, my friends know my truth.”
Aniston, who was married to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005 and Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2018, previously said that “the journey of having babies” had been challenging for her.
she said Seduce in 2022: “I would have given anything if someone had told me, 'Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.' You just don't think about it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed. But I don't regret a thing.
“When I was in my thirties or forties, I had been through some very tough things, and if it wasn't for going through that, I would never have become who I was meant to be. I was trying to get pregnant.”
He said “the years and years of speculation were really difficult,” adding: I was having IVF, drinking Chinese teas, whatever. “I was throwing everything.”
Aniston previously said the claim that her marriage to Pitt had ended because she didn't want children was an “absolute lie.”
