- Jennifer Aniston, 52, is offering fans a rare glimpse into her personal life.
- The Morning Show star is addressing “nasty” rumours and speculation surrounding her divorce from Brad Pitt, and her decision on having kids.
- “I used to take it all very personally—the pregnancy rumours and the whole, ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption,” Aniston said. “‘You have no clue what’s going with me.’”
Jennifer Aniston is offering a rare glimpse into her personal life—and she’s setting the record straight on some particularly mean-spirited rumours started by tabloids during her decades-long career.
“Well, people certainly project onto you and all that,” Aniston said this week in an expansive profile in The Hollywood Reporter. And she’s not wrong. The Friends star was accused of causing her 2005 divorce from Brad Pitt because, as was reported at the time, she refused to have children with her husband. That, she says, isn’t the truth.
“I used to take it all very personally—the pregnancy rumours and the whole, ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption,” Aniston, 52, recalled. “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.”
Her comments now mirror an interview she gave Vanity Fair USA calling out sexist double standards in 2006. “A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children. That really pisses me off,” Aniston said at the time. “I’ve never in my life said I didn’t want to have children.”
“Dolly Parton never had kids. But are people giving her s**t for it?”
Nowadays, though, The Morning Show actress is still child-free and happy. “I haven’t seen a tabloid in so long. Am I still having twins? Am I going to be the miracle mother at 52?” she told The Hollywood Reporter with a laugh. “It’s the same with Dolly Parton; Dolly Parton never had kids. But are people giving her s**t for it? No, no one’s tried to put her in a white picket fence.”
Although tabloid influence has waned, the rumour mill is still alive and well. “What the tabloids and the media did to people’s personal lives back then, regular people are doing now,” Aniston mused. “It’s almost like the media handed over the sword to any Joe Schmo sitting behind a computer screen to be a troll, or whatever they call them, and bully people in comment sections.”
“I don’t know why there’s such a cruel streak in society,” Aniston explained. “I often wonder what they get off on.”
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But the star has learned to take it all in stride. “And listen, is it a sliver of an annoyance to have to publicly go through dark s**t in front of the world? Yes, it’s an inconvenience, but it’s all relative,” the actress continued, referencing her divorce from Pitt. “So, you disappear as much as you can, you have fun, you take on these weird roles, you don’t give a s**t, you enjoy yourself, you remember that you have a gorgeous group of friends and your life is blessed, and you do the best that you can.”
Did Jennifer Aniston just figure out the secret to a happier life? We think so.
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