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- Jennifer Aniston is among the most well-known actresses of all time.
- She has been married twice however by no means had children.
- Jen has opened up about her child-free life a number of instances in response to society’s double commonplace they place on girls.
- Her most up-to-date film, Murder Mystery 2, premiered on Mar. 31, 2023.
Jennifer Aniston, 54, has been on a roll together with her roles in blockbuster tv exhibits and movies as of late. Her Emmy Award-winning present with Reese Witherspoon, The Morning Show, can be returning with a 3rd season, and her extremely anticipated film with Adam Sandler, Murder Mystery 2, premiered on Mar. 31, 2023. “It just feels like that kind of period right now is feeling really great about every single thing,” the Friends alum famous to PEOPLE in Mar. 2023 about her current work. “I’m very grateful.”
While Jen has crammed practically each function underneath the solar, one title she doesn’t have is that of “Mom.” Jen has confronted years of scrutiny and questioning about her choice to not have youngsters, and he or she has naturally dealt with it with grace. HollywoodLife has gathered all of the moments the Golden Globe Award-winning actress has spoken out in opposition to the rampant sexism nonetheless prevalent in our tradition and the way her child-free life shouldn’t be a notable attribute.
Jennifer Aniston Isn’t Putting Pressure On Herself To Find The One
For proper now, the Just Go With It actress is single and comfortable to be — regardless that her pals have supplied to set her up earlier than. “Not right now,” she advised radio host Howard Stern in Oct. 2019 after he supplied to search out an incredible man for her. “But listen, I just don’t like being set up. I don’t like it. Hate it.”
Jen merely doesn’t really feel the necessity to put that form of strain on herself, and the identical goes for relationship apps. “Absolutely no,” she advised PEOPLE in June 2021 after she was requested if she can be interested by on-line relationship. “I’m going to just stick to the normal ways of dating. Having someone ask you out. That’s the way I would prefer it.”
“I’m interested in finding a fantastic partner and just living an enjoyable life and having fun with one another,” she continued. “That’s all we should hope for. It doesn’t have to be etched in stone in legal documents.”
Jen was famously married to Brad Pitt between 2000 and 2005. She went on to tie the knot with Justin Theroux in 2015, however they cut up simply two years later.
Jen Aniston Said She Wanted Kids In 2005
Following her divorce from the Ad Astra star, Jen denied that they separated attributable to her lack of want to begin a household. “A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children. That really pisses me off,” she vented to Vanity Fair in 2005 earlier than revealing that she does actually plan to have children. “I’ve never in my life said I didn’t want to have children. I did and I do and I will!”
She went on to say that ladies who’ve profitable careers and youngsters encourage her. “Why would I want to limit myself? I’ve always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career,” she defined. “I want to have it all.”
On the subject of children, Jennifer advised AP, through Yahoo News in Mar. 2023, that youngsters right this moment discover her former hit present, Friends, offensive. “There’s a whole generation of people, kids, who are now going back to episodes of Friends and find them offensive,” she defined. “There were things that were never intentional and others… well, we should have thought it through — but I don’t think there was a sensitivity like there is now.”
Jen Tries To Ignore The ‘Silliness’
Jen Is Over The Pressure To Have Kids
“[I don’t] like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women — that you’ve failed yourself as a female because you haven’t procreated. I don’t think it’s fair,” Jen mentioned in a Dec. 2014 interview with Allure. “You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t mothering — dogs, friends, friends’ children.” She added, “This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don’t want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.”
The Cake actress additionally confirmed in 2014 that having children wasn’t on the prime of her and Justin Theroux’s precedence checklist once they had been collectively. “I just find it to be energy that is unnecessary and not really fair for those who may or may not [have children],” she advised PEOPLE. “Who knows what the reason is, why people aren’t having kids. There’s a lot of reasons that could be, and maybe it’s something that no one wants to discuss.”
More lately, in Dec. 2022, Jen advised Allure that she truly as soon as tried to conceive through IVF. “All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it,” she defined. “I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.” The starlet clarified that regardless of that, she nonetheless has no regrets. “I have zero regrets. I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.’ I don’t have to think about that anymore,” she concluded.
Jen Is Happy With Her Life Decisions
Jen admitted in a 2021 interview that she used to get offended by hypothesis about why she didn’t have children. “I used to take it all very personally — the pregnancy rumors and the whole ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter in Dec. 2021. “It’s like, ‘You have no clue what’s going with me personally, medically, why I can’t … can I have kids?’ They don’t know anything, and it was really hurtful and just nasty.”
The LolaVie founder additionally touched on the double commonplace she has skilled when it comes to getting requested about having children compared to different entertainers.“It’s the same with Dolly Parton; Dolly Parton never had kids,” she mentioned. “But are people giving her s*** for it? No, no one’s tried to put her in a white picket fence.”
Moreover, the Dumplin actress penned an open letter for The Huffington Post in 2016 that clearly and fantastically made a press release in regards to the sexist double requirements positioned on girls relating to having households and elevating youngsters. “We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child … that decision is ours and ours alone,” she wrote. “We don’t need to be married or mothers to be complete. We get to determine our own ‘happily ever after’ for ourselves.”
Jen Aniston Has A Sweet Relationship With Courteney Cox’s Daughter
While the We’re the Millers star doesn’t have any organic children, she does have a goddaughter: Courteney Cox and David Arquette‘s daughter, Coco Arquette. In Feb. 2023, Jen was seen getting emotional whereas sitting subsequent to Coco as they watched Courteney settle for her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At one level, she even leaned into her for some consolation.
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