{"id":29524,"date":"2022-11-17T11:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T07:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=223894"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T07:08:14","slug":"jennifer-aniston-ivf","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/jennifer-aniston-ivf\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Aniston Has Spoken About Her Heartbreaking Journey With IVF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/jennifer-aniston-discusses-opinion-piece\/\">Jennifer Aniston<\/a> has to be the one celebrity of the modern age whose reproductive status has garnered the most speculation. Seriously, we would not leave this woman alone. Tabloid headlines through the 2000s and 2010s almost exclusively focused on whether she was pregnant, wasn&#8217;t pregnant, or was trying to get pregnant. Now, the\u00a0<em>Friends<\/em> star has opened up about the real story \u2013 a heartbreaking experience with IVF.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.allure.com\/story\/jennifer-aniston-december-2022-cover-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Allure<\/em><\/a> for their December cover story, Aniston explained that her 30s and 40s were extremely difficult periods for her. &#8220;I\u2019d gone through really hard shit, and if it wasn\u2019t for going through that, I would\u2019ve never become who I was meant to be,\u201d she told <em>Allure<\/em>. \u201cThat\u2019s why I have such gratitude for all those shitty things. Otherwise, I would\u2019ve been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were. 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It wasn&#8217;t successful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the years and years and years of speculation&#8230; It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would\u2019ve given anything if someone had said to me, \u2018Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.\u2019 You just don\u2019t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">She stressed that she has &#8220;zero regrets&#8221;, and actually feels some relief because there isn&#8217;t any more anxious hope, now that she&#8217;s older. But she did slam the constant speculation \u2013 particularly the energy behind it all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Aniston noted that tabloid headlines had a \u201cnarrative that I was just selfish,&#8221; and shut down the age-old rumour that Brad Pitt left her because she didn&#8217;t want kids.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cI just cared about my career. And God forbid a woman is successful and doesn\u2019t have a child. And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn\u2019t give him a kid. It was absolute lies. I don\u2019t have anything to hide at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31333,"featured_media":29830,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[36,35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jennifer Aniston Shares Heartbreaking Story About Journey With IVF<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jennifer Aniston has shared her story about IVF struggles in her late 30s and 40s, saying she has &quot;zero regrets&quot;.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/jennifer-aniston-ivf\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jennifer Aniston Has Spoken About Her Heartbreaking 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