Before announcing her infertility struggles, Jennifer Aniston has been candid about her potential plans to become a mother — and why she wasn’t putting pressure on the process.
Throughout her career, Aniston has made headlines for several high-profile relationships. Aniston exchanged vows with Brad Pitt in 2000 but ultimately called it quits after five years of marriage.
After moving on with Justin Theroux, the Friends alum slammed expectations about how she should be living her life. “We’re seeing women through a very narrow lens,” she told Lorraine Kelly during a December 2016 interview on ITV. “If we don’t have a baby or a white picket fence or a husband, then we’re useless. We aren’t living up to our purpose.”
Following her split from Theroux in 2017, Aniston later opened up for the first time about her past attempts to have kids.
“All the years and years and years of speculation … It was really hard,” she detailed in an interview with Allure, which was published in November 2022. “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 favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
Scroll down for Aniston’s most candid quotes about starting a family and pregnancy rumors:
