Jennifer Aniston Opens Up About Fertility Struggle And IVF Journey, Slams "Lies" She Wouldn't Have A Baby With Brad Pitt
Jennifer Aniston has "zero regrets" about her IVF journey.
The Morning Show star, 53, was fiercely determined to have a baby at one point in time, but she thinks the experience has actually made her stronger.
"I was trying to get pregnant, " Aniston told Allure. "It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road."
"All the years and years and years of speculation ... It was really hard," she said. "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 favour.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed."
On her IVF journey, she said, "I have zero regrets. I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.’ I don’t have to think about that anymore."
Aniston — who was married to Brad Pitt (2000-05 and Justin Theroux (2015-17) — also rubbished the suggestion that the reason she didn't have a baby was that she was "selfish".
She added: "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."
Aniston also insisted that she actually feels better than ever at the age of 53.
The Friends alum explained: "I feel the best in who I am today, better than I ever did in my 20s or 30s even, or my mid-40s.
"We needed to stop saying bad s*** to ourselves. You’re going to be 65 one day and think, I looked f****** great at 53."
In the Allure interview, Aniston also expressed her contempt for social media.
Aniston — who joined Instagram in October 2019 and has more than 40 million followers since — said, "I hate social media. I'm not good at it."
"It’s torture for me," she continued. "The reason I went on Instagram was to launch this line.
"Then the pandemic hit and we didn’t launch. So I was just stuck with being on Instagram. It doesn’t come naturally."
She actually feels fortunate that she grew up in an environment without social media.
"I’m really happy that we got to experience growing up, being a teenager, being in our 20s without this social media aspect," she explained.
"Look, the Internet, great intentions, right? Connect people socially, social networking. It goes back to how young girls feel about themselves, compare and despair."
Despite this, Aniston feels that she's grown and matured because of the struggles she's been through.
"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," she said.
"That’s why I have such gratitude for all those s***** things. Otherwise, I would’ve been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were. And now, I don’t f****** care."— BANG SHOWBIZ
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