Jennifer Aniston is 53 and states: "The ship has sailed", but the actress has been trying to get pregnant for a long time. Even with artificial insemination - without success. Now she speaks openly about her unfulfilled desire to have children and the hard time of hoping in vain. Colleague Kaley Cuoco thanks her for being so open.
Actress Jennifer Aniston has spoken candidly about a very personal chapter in her life. The Hollywood star has been trying to get pregnant for a long time - but without success. "It was a difficult path for me, the path of having children," the former Friends actress revealed in the cover interview of the December issue of Allure.
"All the years and years and years of speculation... It's been really tough," admitted the 53-year-old. She underwent treatment using in vitro fertilization (IVF), a method of artificial insemination. "Drank Chinese teas and stuff like that," Aniston continued. "I did everything for it." She would have given anything "if someone had said to me: 'Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.' You just don't think about it."
Now the ship has sailed. However, she made it clear that she "has no regrets". "I feel a little relieved now that I don't have to be like, 'Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe,'" Aniston explained. "I don't have to think about it anymore."
For years, headlines have circulated in the press that Aniston will not have children, that she is not interested. Added to her personal pain about the situation was the "narrative that I'm just being selfish," the actress said.
"I was just caring 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 separated and ended our marriage, was because I gave him didn't want to give a child. Those were absolute lies." Aniston split from Brad Pitt in 2005 after five years of marriage and was then married to Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2017.
She spent so many years hiding the story about her artificial insemination. "I'm so protective of these things because I feel like there's so little I can keep to myself." She feels like waking up from a hibernation. "I have nothing to hide," she clarified.
Looking back on her life so far, Aniston admitted that she went through "really tough times" in her "late 30s and 40s". But "if I hadn't gone through that, I would never have become who I was supposed to be," said the actress. "That's why I'm so thankful for all these bad things. Otherwise I'd still be the person who's so anxious, nervous and insecure." Today she feels most comfortable in her own skin. "Better than I ever did in my 20s or 30s or even in my mid 40s."
Thanks and support now comes from "The Big Bang Theory" star Kaley Cuoco. The 36-year-old actress - who is currently expecting her first child with partner Tom Pelphrey - tweeted: "You never know what's going on behind the scenes with the people... stop, everyone to go out and judge trifles!" Finally, she thanks Aniston for "sharing this story".
