In an open and honest interview with Allure, Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her struggles to fall pregnant and how she now has “zero regrets”.
“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” she said, adding, “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. 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.”
The Friends star is today living happily, regret free and looking “f****g great at 53.”
“I would say my late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard s**t, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be,” said Aniston. “That’s why I have such gratitude for all those sh**ty things. Otherwise, I would’ve been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were.”
She goes onto say that she “was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” “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. 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.”
Since those struggles and years in the headlines, Aniston has now found peace within herself saying that “I have zero regrets,” she says. “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 also hit back at rumours that her previous marriages ended because she wouldn’t have a child, labelling the speculation “absolute lies.” She was married to Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2017, following her first marriage to Brad Pitt, the couple were married to from 2000 to 2005.
“‘[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,” she said, adding, “I don’t have anything to hide at this point.”
As for her current romantic life, she said that she’s open to love but just isn’t that interested at the moment.
“Never say never, but I don’t have any interest. I’d love a relationship. Who knows?” she said. “There are moments I want to just crawl up in a ball and say, ‘I need support.’ It would be wonderful to come home and fall into somebody’s arms and say, ‘That was a tough day.’”
