{"id":484966,"date":"2025-10-09T06:29:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484966\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:29:20","slug":"friends-star-jennifer-aniston-endured-secret-20-year-battle-to-have-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484966\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends star Jennifer Aniston endured secret 20-year battle to have a baby"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel Green in Friends for 10 years, has also addressed claims she chose not to have children because she’s a “selfish workaholic”\"JenniferJennifer Aniston has given a rare interview into her personal life(Image: GC Images)<\/p>\n

Hollywood icon Jennifer Aniston<\/a> has blasted claims she didn’t want to become a mother<\/a> because she’s a “selfish workaholic”.<\/p>\n

The Friends actress, who was married to Brad Pitt for five years, also told how she endured a two-decade secret battle to have a baby. In a rare interview published today, Jennifer, 56, said she felt she needed to correct the “false narrative” about why she hasn’t started a family.<\/p>\n

Jennifer said: “They 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

“That\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. It does affect me \u2013 I\u2019m just a human being. We\u2019re all human beings. That\u2019s why I thought, ‘What the hell?'”<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Jennifer Aniston reveals her favourite ‘comfort food’ as she gives rare look into home life<\/a>READ MORE: Friends fans discover lie that could ‘never be true’ 21 years after show ended<\/a>\"TheThe November issue of Harper\u2019s Bazaar UK is on sale from October 9(Image: Harper\u2019s Bazaar UK\/Emma Summerton)\"TheThe Hollywood legend has posed for pictures for the magazine(Image: Harper\u2019s Bazaar UK\/Emma Summerton)<\/p>\n

Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar U<\/a>K<\/a>, the actress talked about her unsuccessful attempt at IVF – and admitted she wished she had frozen her eggs years earlier. Jennifer, who played Rachel Green in Friends for 10 years, continued: “The news cycle is so fast, it just goes away. Of course, there are times when I feel that sense of justice \u2013 when something has been said that isn\u2019t true and I need to right the wrong. And then I think, do I really? My family knows my truth, my friends know my truth.”<\/p>\n

The star split with Brad in 2005 after the actor met Angelina Jolie<\/a> on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. In a previous interview, Jennifer said “nobody did anything wrong” in relation to the breakup. She since dated Justin Theroux for six years, a relationship which ended in 2017.<\/p>\n

Jennifer described the subsequent IVF struggle as “a challenging road”. In a previous interview, the celeb, born in Los Angeles, California, had said: “My late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard sh*t, 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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

Jennifer was 35 when she split with Brad, who went on to have six children with Angelina. However, Jennifer previously said the suggestion he left her because she wouldn’t give him a child was an “absolute lie.”<\/p>\n

The November issue of Harper\u2019s Bazaar UK is on sale from October 9.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston, who played Rachel Green in Friends for 10 years, has also addressed claims she chose not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,592,2456,103868,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-484966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fertility","10":"tag-jennifer-aniston","11":"tag-starting-a-family","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115342801304743657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}