Jennifer Aniston opens up: “I tried for 20 years to have a child — No one knew what I was going through”

In a candid caller interrogation with Harper’s Bazaar UK for the November issue, the 56-year-old histrion opened up astir years of soundlessness and speculation, saying that precise fewer radical ever knew the truth.

“They didn’t cognize my story, oregon what I was going done implicit the past 20 years trying to person a household — due to the fact that I don’t speech publically astir my aesculapian issues. It’s nary one’s business,” Aniston said. “But determination comes a constituent erstwhile you conscionable can’t perceive anymore — that rumor that I didn’t privation children, that I didn’t privation a household due to the fact that I’m selfish oregon due to the fact that I enactment excessively much. It affected me. I’m quality too.”

Aniston said that arsenic she’s grown older, she feels little of a request to “correct mendacious narratives.”

“The quality rhythm is truthful accelerated present that everything gets forgotten. Of course, determination are moments erstwhile I consciousness the request for justness — erstwhile thing mendacious is written and I privation to hole it. But past I think, should I really? My household knows the truth. My friends cognize the truth.”

The histrion — who was joined to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005 — has antecedently spoken astir the affectional struggles she faced trying to go a mother. In 2022, she revealed that she had undergone unsuccessful IVF treatments, admitting she wished she had frozen her eggs earlier.

“It was a hard roadworthy for maine — the way to motherhood,” she said astatine the time. “In my precocious 30s and 40s, I went done a batch of pugnacious things. But if I hadn’t, I wouldn’t beryllium who I americium today.”

Aniston recalled years of relentless speculation astir her fertility:

“I was doing IVF, drinking Chinese teas, immoderate could help. I would’ve fixed thing for idiosyncratic to archer me, ‘Freeze your eggs — bash yourself that favor.’ But you don’t deliberation astir it astatine the time. That vessel has sailed now, but I person nary regrets.”

She besides dismissed arsenic “a implicit lie” the long-standing rumor that Pitt near her due to the fact that she didn’t privation children. Pitt went connected to person six children with Angelina Jolie — Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne — earlier their divided successful 2016.

Aniston aboriginal joined Justin Theroux successful 2015; the mates divorced 3 years later. Theroux remarried earlier this twelvemonth successful a backstage ceremonial with histrion Nicole Brydon Bloom. This past July, Aniston confirmed she has recovered emotion again with hypnotherapist and beingness manager Jim Curtis.