Fans have speculated for years that Jennifer Aniston simply didn’t want to have children. You’ll remember back in 2005, after her split from husband Brad Pitt, sources claimed she chose her career over starting a family with the actor.
But she says those sources were spreading lies. During a very candid interview with Allure, the 53-year-old actress called out the lies and speculation.
It was absolute lies. The narrative that I was just selfish… 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.
The truth is, Aniston also wanted children, but like many women across the world, she had difficulties getting pregnant.
I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road. 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 have given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it.
She didn’t reveal exactly when she had her IVF journey, but she did say it was “several years ago.”
These days, she says she has zero regrets about how things worked out. In some ways, she feels relief because the ship has sailed for her. She doesn’t have to think about it anymore.
And now that she’s entered her 50s, she’s feeling the best she’s ever felt in life.
I would say my late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard s—, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be. I feel the best in who I am today, better than I ever did in my 20s or 30s even, or my mid-40s.
This is why people shouldn’t speculate. You never know what someone might be dealing with behind closed doors.
