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Jennifer Aniston shows it all – physically and emotionally – in a new interview with Allure, posing for a stunning shoot in which she shows off her incredible figure in a tiny Chanel bra, while candidly talks about her bitter struggle to have children.
The 53-year-old acquaintance publication that she bitterly regrets not making the decision to freeze her eggs when she was younger, revealing that she “threw everything” into her infertility battle, including undergoing IVF and “drinking Chinese tea” in a desperate attempt to conceive become.
She also dismissed speculation that her former husband Brad Pitt divorced her because she “wouldn’t give him a child,” noting that the constant rumors about her relationship made her infertility battle all the more difficult.
“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the road of making babies,” she said.
“All those years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I went through IVF, drank Chinese tea, you name it. I threw everything on it.’
The actress added that she wished someone had told her to freeze her eggs when she was younger, adding that she has now come to terms with the fact that she will never father children.
Jennifer Aniston shows it all – physically and emotionally – in a new interview with Allure, posing for a stunning shoot in which she shows off her incredible figure in a tiny Chanel bra, while candidly talks about her bitter struggle to conceive children.
The 53-year-old admitted to the publication that she bitterly regrets not making the decision to freeze her eggs when she was younger, revealing that she “threw everything” into her infertility battle, including undergoing IVF
“I would have given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think so. So here I am today. The ship has sailed,’ she said.
Jennifer — who starred on the hit sitcom Friends for ten years from 1994 to 2004 — admitted that she was too focused on her career to think about the fact that her future self might one day settle down and have kids, even though she from the constant scrutiny she was given for not getting pregnant during her five-year marriage to Pitt.
“I only cared about my career. And God forbid a woman is successful and has no child,” she said. “And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wasn’t going to give him a child. They were absolute lies. I have nothing to hide right now.’
The actress has insisted that she has come to terms with the fact that she will not have children, noting that she actually feels some “relief” in the fact that the possibility of children no longer lingers on her like a never-ending ‘perhaps’ .
Indeed, with age, a new sense of confidence has come into herself — and the actress said she no longer cares what people think or say about her, thanks in large part to the struggles she faced during her late 30s. and ’40s.
“I’d say I was in my late 30s, 40s, I’d been through some really hard stuff, and if I hadn’t been through that, I would never have become who I was meant to be,” she explained.
“That’s why I’m so grateful for all those stupid things. Otherwise I would have been stuck as that person who was so scared, so nervous, so unsure of who they were. And now I don’t care.’
Jennifer added that she “feels the best in who she is now,” explaining that she’s learned to stop saying “bad shit to herself.”
“I would have given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think so. So here I am today. The ship has sailed,’ she said
Jennifer was also candid about the criticism she received during her marriage to Brad Pitt, explaining that the “years of speculation” about why she didn’t have children made her infertility issues that much harder to deal with.
Jennifer also hinted that she plans to write a book about her protracted infertility battle — something she kept hidden from the world for years out of need to “protect” herself and her story.
‘I’m going to [write a book] one day,” she said. “I’m going to stop saying, ‘I can’t write.’
“I’ve spent so many years protecting my story about IVF. I protect these parts so much because I feel like there is so little I can keep to myself. The world creates stories that aren’t true, so I might as well tell the truth. I feel like I’m coming out of hibernation. I have nothing to hide.’
Jennifer’s candid comments about her infertility journey come 17 years after she split from Brad, now 58, after five years of marriage — during which time she faced a barrage of rumors about why the couple hadn’t had children.
The Morning Show star has previously addressed the speculation, calling it “annoying” and “hurtful.” The Hollywood Reporter in 2021 that she had taken the rumors and gossip “personally” for years.
At the time, Jennifer alluded to the fact that she was struggling with infertility – although she did stop opening up about her IVF journey, telling the publication: ‘You have no idea what’s going on with me personally, medically, why I can’t … can I have children?” They don’t know anything.’
In her conversation with Allure, Jennifer also spoke about Hollywood’s changing landscape, saying she feels like real “movie stars” don’t exist anymore — and suggesting that the industry isn’t having the same kind of “fun” it used to be, and notes, “I feel like it’s dying. There are no more movie stars. There is no more glamour. Even the Oscar parties used to be so much fun…’