Jennifer Aniston is opening concerning the scrutiny she confronted through the years from the general public for not changing into a mom.
In a brand new interview with Harper’s Bazaar revealed Wednesday, the actor, 56, acquired candid about her struggles with fertility and in vitro fertilization (IVF) therapies, which she says she saved out of the highlight for many years.
“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,” Aniston stated of the media. “That’s not anybody’s business.”
She continued, “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.”
The “Friends” alum admitted “it does affect” her, telling the outlet, “I’m just a human being. We’re all human beings. That’s why I thought, ‘What the hell?’”
Aniston went on to elucidate that the rumour pushed her to jot down her 2016 op-ed for the Huffington Submit (now referred to as HuffPost), by which she referred to as out the media’s “dehumanizing view of females.”
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“So it did feel like it was not only for myself, but for any women who were struggling with the same issue,” Aniston stated of different girls who have been battling (IVF) points and attempting to start out a household.
Talking with Attract in 2022, Aniston shut down the rumors that her earlier marriages didn’t pan out as a result of she didn’t need to have a baby. She referred to as the gossip “absolute lies” and slammed the narrative that she was “just selfish.”
“I just cared about my career. And God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child,” she stated. “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.”
Aniston was beforehand married to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005 and to Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2018.
She additionally informed Attract she has “zero regrets” about by no means conceiving at this stage in her life.
“I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe,’ she said. “I don’t have to think about that anymore.”
