Jennifer Aniston was going “through really hard sh**” in her late 30s and early 40s.
“I was trying to get pregnant,” the critically acclaimed actress revealed in a new, explosive interview for the December issue of Allure. She recalled sipping on Chinese tea and undergoing rounds of IVF all while a “bump watch” media circus was ensuing outside her front door.
However, the tabloids weren’t camping out to snap a photo with good intentions. Aniston said news stories were fueled by “the narrative that I was just selfish.”
In 2018, Aniston ended her high-profile relationship with Justin Theroux, whom she was with since 2011. She was previously married to Brad Pitt; they divorced in 2005.
“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,” Aniston continued.
“It was absolute lies. I don’t have anything to hide at this point,” she added.
Aniston’s IVF journey, obviously, didn’t prove to be successful.
“It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” Aniston told the magazine. “I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it.”
Despite her fertility struggles, Aniston said she has “zero regrets.”
The Morning Show star said, “…if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be.”
Looking back, Aniston wishes fertility issues were talked about more and that someone would have advised then-twenty-something-Jen to freeze her eggs.
“I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor,’” Aniston admitted. “You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
Despite the sadness in that statement, Aniston is looking at the brighter side of things.
“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,” she explained.
In fact, now, at 53, Aniston told Allure that she’s at peace with her life.
“I feel the best in who I am today, better than I ever did in my 20s or 30s even, or my mid-40s.”
You go, girl. Speaking your truth.
