Jennifer Aniston has not had a child.
She’s baby-free.
Not at all knocked-up.
She’s also currently nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award, though that doesn’t matter compared to the fact she has never grown a human inside of her – obviously.
Speaking to Allure magazine, Jen has addressed the public interest in her reproductive life– and basically told the world where they can shove their opinions about whether or not she is (or even wants to be) a ‘mother’.
Jennifer Aniston with fiance Justin Theroux.“I don’t like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women – that you’ve failed yourself as a female because you haven’t procreated. I don’t think it’s fair,” Aniston, said. “You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn’t mean you aren’t mothering – dogs, friends, friends’ children.
“This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself, that I don’t want to be a mother, and how selfish that is.”
Aniston also said the implication women without children are ‘less’ is grossly offensive.
“I have a lot of friends who decided not to have children, who can’t have children, or are trying but are having a difficult time.
“There’s all sorts of reasons why children aren’t in people’s lives, and no one has the right to assume. Its quite rude, insulting, and ignorant,” she said.
But she admitted this is a difficult insult to hear hurled again and again: “Even saying it gets me a little tight in my throat,” Jen told Allure.
Yes, it’s Jennifer Aniston.She also spoke warmly of her fiance Justin Theroux. “We’re equals,” she said. “He’s a nurturer. He is so fiercely loyal. Beyond protective. I mean, the way he takes care of our dogs, he takes care of me, he takes care of friends.”
But the constant ‘baby’ talk has also affected their relationship. Theoroux is always finding out he’s about to be a father via gossip tabloids (obviously because that ‘selfish’ Jen won’t let him in on the news).
Theroux, 42, revealed,“Occasionally you’ll get a stewardess congratulating you, on, I don’t know, whatever, some three-headed baby we just had.”
Baby mother or not, Jen, so long as you’re happy so are we.
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Top Comments
Um, I believe Oprah did give birth when she was quite young and the baby passed away.
Also, the difference between Jen and the other women is that they didn't spend years moaning to the tabloids about how much they want a baby only to do a 180 when they realised it was probably too late, that's why "all the questions'.
I really like what she said, I think this is a nice article. So often it seems like people fighting each other as to which side is "better" the mummies or the child-free. I think she expresses her point if view whilst embracing all the other lifestyles. I also like that she hasn't told us why she doesn't have kids, because it could be any of the list of reasons that she has presented, eg she decided not to have children or she couldn't have children etc. because like she is more or less saying it's really no ones business, and also people can be quite rude making assumptions, but unfortunately some people just like to jump to assumptions based on no information. It's like one time I went to a party and some guy I had never met before , asked me if I had a boyfriend and I said no, then he said to me, what you don't like men? I thought wow what a conclusion to jump to, for all he knows maybe I was in a long term relationship and was just dumped yesterday, maybe I'm off men because I was gang raped, maybe I'm gay, or maybe just maybe I just happen to be single not through any personality defect but just because it happens singleton happens sometimes to people. I should have said to him, "actually I'm single because all the good ones like you are taken!"
Ironically this man himself was single because he had been widowed, I wonder how he would have felt if I had asked him the same question!