Jennifer Aniston is getting honest about her journey with fertility and why people think she didn’t have children.
The “Friends” star said there is a “false narrative” about her being a “workaholic” uninterested in having a family.
“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,” she told .
She continued, “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?’”
Jennifer was married to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005, and rumors swirled following their divorce that she had focused on her career over having a baby with the actor.
She first opened up about her unsuccessful IVF treatments in 2016 in an op-ed for the .
She said she spoke out because, “I knew a lot of women at the time who were trying to have kids, who were dealing with IVF. So, it did feel like it was not only for myself, but for any women who were struggling with the same issue.”
In 2022, Jennifer revealed more about her IVF journey and admitted she wished she’d frozen her eggs earlier.
“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,” she told at the time. “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.”
“The Morning Show” star has now decided to let the rumors about her and her interest in motherhood come as they may.
“The older I get, the less I care about correcting a narrative, because it will happen eventually. The news cycle is so fast, it just goes away,” the 56-year-old said. “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.”