Jennifer Aniston has opened up about her 20-year battle to become a mother, revealing she went through many rounds of IVF – and now she’s explained why she didn’t adopt
Jennifer Aniston didn’t adopt a child during her struggle to become a mother because she wanted to have her “own DNA in a little person”. The former Friends star, 56, recently opened up about her 20-year battle to start a family – revealing she went through many rounds of unsuccessful IVF treatments – and now she’s explained why she didn’t turned to adoption.
During an appearance on the Armchair Expert podcast, Jennifer said: “When people say: ‘But you can adopt’. I don’t want to adopt. I want my own DNA in a little person. That’s the only way, selfish or not, whatever that is, I’ve wanted it.”
Co-host Monica Padman asked the actress if she’s found “peace” after her fertility struggles and Jennifer replied: “It’s so peaceful. But I will say there’s a point where it’s like out of my control. There’s literally nothing I can do about it.”
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Jennifer acknowledged she has had relationships with men and thought they “would have made some good kids” but she admits the thought often passed “within three seconds”.
She went on to add: “It [having kids] just wasn’t in the plan, whatever the plan was. It’s very emotional, especially in the moment when they say ‘that’s it,’ because there is a weird moment when that happens.”
The Morning Show star previously opened up about her fertility battles back in 2022 when she revealed to Allure magazine: “My late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard s***, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be. I was trying to get pregnant.
“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. But I have zero regrets.”
Jennifer discussed her ordeal once more in a recent chat with Harper’s Bazaar UK, confessing she despised the “false narrative” that she chose not to have children because she’s a “workaholic”.
She revealed: “They didn’t know my story, or what I’d been going through over the past 20 years to try to pursue a family, because I don’t go out there and tell them my medical woes.
“That’s not anybody’s business. But there comes a point when you can’t not hear it – the narrative about how I won’t have a baby, won’t have a family, because I’m selfish, a workaholic.
“It does affect me – I’m just a human being. We’re all human beings. That’s why I thought: ‘What the hell?'”.
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