Jennifer Aniston is revealing her secret 20-year struggle to have a baby.
During a rare interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK in October 2025, the Friends alum, 56, opened up about rumors that she didn’t want to become a mother because she’s a “selfish workaholic.”
‘They didn’t know my story, or what I’d been going through over the past 20 years to try to pursue a family, because I don’t go out there and tell them my medical woes,” she revealed.
“That’s not anybody’s business. But there comes a point when you can’t not hear it – the narrative about how I won’t have a baby, won’t have a family, because I’m selfish, a workaholic,” she added. “It does affect me – I’m just a human being. We’re all human beings. That’s why I thought, ‘What the hell?’”
However, the older she gets, she says the less she feels the need to “correct a false narrative.”
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“The news cycle is so fast, it just goes away,” she explained. Of course, there are times when I feel that sense of justice – when something has been said that isn’t 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.”
As most know, Aniston was married to actor Brad Pitt from 2000-2005. They split after he met actress Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Following their infamous divorce, she moved on and married actor Justin Theroux in 2015 until their split in 2018.
In 2022, The Morning Show actress revealed she had unsuccessfully tried IVF — while also admitting she wished she had frozen her eggs years earlier.
“It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” Aniston said in an interview with Allure at the time. “My late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard s***, 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.”
“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,” she admitted. “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. But I have zero regrets.’”
