Jennifer Aniston has become almost as famous for not having children as she has for her acting career. She has spoken at length about her struggles to conceive and not being able to, but in a new interview with Wall Street Journal Magazine, she shared a sweet story about how her friend, actor Adam Sandler, honors her attempts at motherhood.
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"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," Aniston, who is now in her 50s, said.
When her and Brad Pitt's marriage ended in 2005, many media outlets speculated that a major factor in their divorce was Aniston being unable to have children.
"I just cared about my career. And God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child," she said in the Allure interview. "And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn’t give him a kid. It was absolute lies. I don’t have anything to hide at this point."
She told The Wall Street Journal, "It was always a little bit difficult for me in relationships, I think, because I really was kind of alone. I don’t know. My parents, watching my family’s relationship, didn’t make me kind of go, ‘Oh, I can’t wait to do that.'"
"I didn’t like the idea of sacrificing who you were or what you needed, so I didn’t really know how to do that. So it was almost easier to just be kind of solo. So I didn’t have any real training in that give-and-take," she added.
