Is Jennifer Aniston pregnant? These were the most common questions regarding the former Friends star, and she’s now opening up about her struggles and “challenging” IVF journey.
It’s 2022, but people still can’t stop asking other people incredibly personal questions. Asking when a couple (or a woman, mainly) plans to have a kid is extremely personal and something that shouldn’t be discussed during a small talk after mentioning the weather. But still, it happens. A lot.
And besides questions from family and acquaintances, celebrities are also under scrutiny from the media and the worldwide public. Whether Jennifer Aniston wanted a baby or not was the main topic for several media outlets for decades. With her receiving a lot of scrutiny for the alleged “denial” to give in the wonderful, fulfilling role of motherhood.
In her cover shoot for Allure magazine, Jennifer Aniston opens up for the first time about wanting to get pregnant and her struggles in doing so.
Aniston, actress, businesswoman, and dog mom, admitted that “I would say my late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard shit, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be,” she says. “That’s why I have such gratitude for all those shitty things. Otherwise, I would’ve been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were.” She finishes her smoothie and reaches out to Chesterfield. “And now, I don’t fucking care.”
She admitted, for the first time, “I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road.”
The Morning Show star continued, “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.” And she admitted that, “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.”
She didn’t fail to mention the scrutiny, judgment, and 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. It was absolute lies. I don’t have anything to hide at this point.”
Aniston has been very vocal in her denial to talk about whether she wants a baby or not. Most recently, in a Huffington Post essay, she wrote, “For the record, I am not pregnant. What I am is fed up.“
“Here’s where I come out on this topic: We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone,” she wrote. “Let’s make that decision for ourselves and for the young women in this world who look to us as examples. Let’s make that decision consciously, outside of the tabloid noise. We don’t need to be married or mothers to be complete. We get to determine our own ‘happily ever after’ for ourselves.”
At the time she wrote, “I have grown tired of being part of this narrative. Yes, I may become a mother some day, and since I’m laying it all out there, if I ever do, I will be the first to let you know. But I’m not in pursuit of motherhood because I feel incomplete in some way.“
