IT’S a topic that has dogged her for years and refuses to go way.
For as long as Jennifer Aniston can remember she’s had to fend off the why-haven’t-you-had-kids scrutiny and she’s sick and tired of having to explain herself year after year after year.
“I used to take it all very personally – the pregnancy rumours and the whole ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption,” Jen (52) says in a candid new interview. “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.”
She calls the comments “hurtful”, “just plain nasty” and often “downright ridiculous”.
“Am I still having twins? Am I going to be the miracle mother at 52? I don’t know why there’s such a cruel streak in society.”
The fact that she’s been married twice – first to Brad Pitt who went on to have six kids (three biological) with Angelina Jolie, then to Justin Theroux – and remained childless, didn’t help matters either.
Society is plain unfair sometimes, Jen tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Dolly Parton never had kids. But are people giving her sh*t for it? No, no one’s tried to put her in a white picket fence.”
It’s not the first time the star has expressed her views. Back in 2016 she wrote a powerful essay for the Huffington Post in which she stuck up for the plight of the childless woman.
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