Jennifer Aniston has been plagued with a lot of bullshit questions throughout her career. The most popular one has to do with kids: when she’s going to have some, why she doesn’t have any yet, wouldn’t she love kids, what will she name her kids, aren’t kids great, when are you going to be pregnant with a kid, yada yada. Well, she’s sick of it and frankly, thinks it’s a bit unfair.
From Allure:
“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. 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.”
Jen admitted that the criticism really gets to her, too – she gets “tight in the throat” even talking about it. But yo, Jen – I get that it can be hurtful when someone says something untrue about you, but what if it was true? So what if you valued your career and wanted to focus on that instead of changing your entire life to accommodate a baby? Is that not actually one of the most thoughtful things you can do – not having kids as accessories and pawning them off on others to raise just so you can look like you’re “having it all” when really you couldn’t give less of a shit about having babies?
A lot of people don’t want kids, me included. But I think her problem was she told interviewers she did, even if she really didn’t. Now at her age its damn near difficult to make and have bebehs. Not impossible just hard.
She told her ex she wanted them, while filming friends she kept delaying that time to get pregnant and kept renewing her contract for another year.. so she lied and accused Brad of cheating and leaving her when he promised their marriage was for life.. yet, no kids wasn’t part of the bargain; to him marriage for life means kids.. Poor Jen.. um perhaps forgetful in her old age..
Ms. Anniston is a wonder in Hollywood. She rose from the infamy of “Friends” to become a movie star and during that time she continued to get older (shocking I know!). Perhaps ten years she thought she really did want children..but she has since changed her mind. Is it not better for her to change her mind about not wanting children NOW? Before she has a child/ren and then leaves them to nannies. We all change our mind even about the important stuff. However being the naming freak I am :) I would love to know what she would name those kids (giggle).
If she had wanted kids, she would have had them by now. She didn’t, so she doesn’t.