After two decades of silence and baseless assumptions, Jennifer Aniston has for the first time confessed her long and difficult battle to have a child, finally overthrowing the myth that has followed her for years that she did not want to become a mother, as she was "selfish and obsessed with work."
In an interview for the November issue of Harper's Bazaar UK , the 56-year-old actress spoke openly about her hidden pain, difficult years and the injustices she has faced from the public and the media.
"Nobody knew my story. Nobody knew what I've been through for the last 20 years, trying to start a family, because I don't share my medical problems with the world. It's nobody's business," she said.
"But there comes a point when you can't take it anymore. Hearing over and over again that 'I don't want children', 'I don't want a family', because I'm selfish or I work too much, hurts me. I'm human too, like all of you."
She added that over the years, she feels less and less need to correct the false image that has been created for her in public.
"Today, the news cycle is so fast that everything is forgotten. Yes, there are times when I get a strong sense of justice and want to expose a lie, but then I ask myself: Is it worth it? After all, my family knows the truth. So do my friends."
Jennifer, who was married to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005, has previously spoken out about her failed attempts to conceive. In 2022, she revealed that she had unsuccessfully tried in vitro fertilization (IVF) and that she regretted not freezing her eggs at a younger age.
"In my late 30s and throughout my 40s I went through great trials, but if I hadn't gone through them, I wouldn't be who I am today," she said.
In the interview, Aniston also shared the impact of her parents' divorce when she was just 9 years old. Born in Los Angeles but raised in New York, she experienced the emotional aftermath of the divorce at a young age. It was only later, through psychotherapy, that she began to understand and process the repressed emotions of that period.
