Jennifer Aniston has revealed she endured a 20-year secret battle to have a baby
The Friends icon, 56, gave a rare interview to Harper’s Bazaar UK’s November issue, about the false narrative that she didn’t want to become a mother because she’s a ‘selfish workaholic’.
She said: ‘They didn’t know my story, or what I’d been going through over the past 20 years to try to pursue a family, because I don’t go out there and tell them my medical woes.
‘That’s not anybody’s business. But there comes a point when you can’t not hear it – the narrative about how I won’t have a baby, won’t have a family, because I’m selfish, a workaholic.
‘It does affect me – I’m just a human being. We’re all human beings. That’s why I thought, “What the hell?”’
However, the older Jennifer gets, the less she feels the need to ‘correct a false narrative’.
She explained: ‘The news cycle is so fast, it just goes away.
‘Of course, there are times when I feel that sense of justice – when something has been said that isn’t true and I need to right the wrong.
‘And then I think, do I really? My family knows my truth, my friends know my truth.’
Jennifer was married to actor Brad Pitt from 2000-2005. They split after he met actress Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
‘It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,’ Jennifer said at the time.
‘My late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard sh[*]t, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be. I was trying to get pregnant.
‘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. But I have zero regrets.’
Jennifer was aged 35 when she split from Brad and previously said the suggestion he left her because she wouldn’t give him a child was an ‘absolute lie’.
Brad went on to have has six children with Angelina. Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. The eldest three are adopted and the youngest three are their biological children.
They announced their split in 2016 after a now-infamous private plane incident in which Angelina accused Brad of being abusive toward her and the children.
Brad is thought to now have ‘virtually no contact with them’.
Meanwhile, Jennifer went on to marry actor Justin Theroux in 2015 when she was aged 46.
But theirs wasn’t to be a lasting romance. They divorced just three years later.
In March, Justin remarried – in a secret ceremony – to new love Nicole Brydon Bloom.
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