Jennifer Aniston has described her 20-year struggle with unsuccessful IVF treatments and the emotional impact. Photo \/ GC Images<\/p>\n
Aniston acknowledged she has had relationships with men and thought they \u201cwould have made some good kids\u201d but she admits the thought often passed \u201cwithin three seconds\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt [having kids] just wasn\u2019t in the plan, whatever the plan was. It\u2019s very emotional, especially in the moment when they say \u2018that\u2019s it\u2019, because there is a weird moment when that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Morning Show star spoke out about her IVF struggles in 2022 when she told Allure magazine: \u201cMy late 30s, 40s, I\u2019d gone through really hard s***, and if it wasn\u2019t for going through that, I would\u2019ve never become who I was meant to be. I was trying to get pregnant.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would\u2019ve given anything if someone had said to me: \u2018Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favour.\u2019 You just don\u2019t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed. But I have zero regrets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aniston spoke about her struggle again in a recent interview with Harper\u2019s Bazaar UK, admitting she hated the \u201cfalse narrative\u201d that she decided against having children because she is a \u201cworkaholic\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThey didn\u2019t know my story, or what I\u2019d been going through over the past 20 years to try to pursue a family, because I don\u2019t go out there and tell them my medical woes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not anybody\u2019s business. But there comes a point when you can\u2019t not hear it \u2013 the narrative about how I won\u2019t have a baby, won\u2019t have a family, because I\u2019m selfish, a workaholic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does affect me \u2013 I\u2019m just a human being. We\u2019re all human beings. That\u2019s why I thought: \u2018What the hell?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston has described her 20-year struggle with unsuccessful IVF treatments and the emotional impact. Photo \/ GC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25441,1301,17517,6726,2511,17898,55,2837,156,305,1364,1300,6093,6178,111,139,69,5429,4056,312,20863,7235,5828],"class_list":["post-77458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adopt","tag-aniston","tag-because","tag-become","tag-child","tag-didnt","tag-dna","tag-during","tag-entertainment","tag-have","tag-her","tag-jennifer","tag-little","tag-mother","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-own","tag-person","tag-says","tag-she","tag-struggle","tag-wanted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}