Jennifer Aniston rebels against those who called her a "workaholic and selfish" for not having children.
The actress, who is currently successful with 'The Morning Show', has also explained that she did not want to adopt because she wanted a biological bond with her children.
BarcelonaBehind the white, consensus-based image that Jennifer Aniston always projects lies a star who doesn't mind stepping in puddles and getting up to her waist in mud if she believes the cause is worth it. She made this clear once again this week in an interview with the British edition of the magazine. Harper's Bazaar, where she hasn't held back when it comes to addressing such delicate topics as infertility, mental health issues, or the gaps hidden behind the word success.
The 56-year-old Californian artist has been questioned for decades on a global scale because she hasn't been a mother. In fact, the published rumors—which should never be published because they are elevated to the category of information when they aren't...—always pointed to the fact that she hadn't had children as the possible cause of her divorce from Brad Pitt, whom she married in a private ceremony in Malibu in 2000 and from whom she was separating. 2. served to place the burden of that breakup on her shoulders—the woman's—despite the fact that the reality was completely far from that. As we have come to know for sure over the years, the breakup of the golden couple of the early 2000s was blame not of the woman but of the man, who felt hopelessly in love with Angelina Jolie while they were filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
In that context, where sharing blame from a sexist perspective was considered normal, Aniston was classified as a workaholic who had preferred to have a career in capital letters rather than give children to her husband, something that that world – and partly also today's... – understood as the logical destiny of any woman. Now, many years after all that fuss, the legendary Rachel de Friends She took a break from speaking about the issue in the aforementioned interview. "They didn't know my story, or what I've had to overcome over the last 20 years trying to start a family, because I don't come out and talk about my medical issues," Aniston explained about the public narrative surrounding her, believing that while she doesn't want her private life to be public, sometimes it's good to come out and debunk rumors.
"There comes a point where you can't ignore the narrative about the fact that I won't have a child or that I won't have a family. Obviously, sometimes I have a certain sense of justice, and when something is said that isn't true, I have to correct the lie. But then I wonder if I really have to do that..." she reflects on this. Although she says that at first these speculations about her not being a mother affected her, she now assures that she has managed to survive the media pressure. "The news is so fast, it just disappears," explains the actress, who laments that she was called a "selfish workaholic" when the years went by and she didn't have children.
She did not want to adopt
In fact, he also recently opened up about this issue on the podcast Expert Armchair, where she confessed that if she couldn't have biological children, she'd rather not have adopted children. "People say: «But you can adopt»"I don't want to adopt him. I want my own DNA in a little person. This is the only way: selfish or not, whatever, that's what I've wanted," the artist explained, not sparing this garden, which, while honoring him for its sincerity, also opens the doors to a debate that could easily turn into controversy for her. "It's very emotional the moment when they tell you «That's all»"Because there comes a time when this happens..." the actress adds, concluding, "There comes a point where this is out of your control. There's nothing you can do."
Aniston has done all this striptease emotionally at a very sweet moment in her professional career. After having been successful at various stages of her life as an actress, she is now at a point of maturity where she has been able to take other steps within the world of entertainment. The series The morning show AppleTV's "The Last of Us" is in its fourth season, starring her and Reese Witherspoon. Because this successful and critically acclaimed series isn't just another job, it also marks a turning point in her career as an executive producer alongside her friend Reese, who played her sister in the role of Friends.
While she continues to reap the achievements that this show has given her, which has tested her in front of and behind the cameras simultaneously, Aniston seems at peace with the private and public ordeal she has had to endure. It wasn't enough to want to have children that she couldn't have, but on top of that she has had to endure the uninformed opinions of any unscrupulous person who speaks lightly about such a sensitive subject. However, it is evident that the impact of the words that reach her from outside is decreasing and that this renowned actress of sitcom She's determined to stop fighting what people say about her and simply be the one to write her own destiny. She's determined to stop being explained by her past and begin to be explained by her present and, of course, her future.
