Jennifer Aniston reveals she receives flowers from good friend Adam Sandler every Mother’s Day – following secret IVF struggle
She opened up about her infertility battle last year and disappointment over not freezing her eggs when she was younger.
But Jennifer Aniston is still appreciated on Mother’s Day.
During her interview with WSJ. Magazine, the actress, 54, revealed she receives flowers every Mother’s Day from her good friend Adam Sandler, 56, and his wife Jackie.
Aniston, who does not have any children, described last year her regret at not freezing her eggs earlier in life and revealing that she ‘threw everything’ at her infertility battle, including going through IVF and ‘drinking Chinese teas’ in a desperate attempt to conceive.
During a 2022 interview with Allure, Jennifer said: ‘I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,’ she said of her IVF journey, which the magazine noted was ‘several years ago’.
Touching gesture: Jennifer Aniston revealed she receives flowers every Mother’s Day from Adam Sandler and his wife Jackie, following her own infertility battle; pictured 2019
‘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 also slammed speculation that any of her former husbands – she has been married to both Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux – divorced her because she ‘wouldn’t give him a kid’, noting that the constant rumors about her relationship made her infertility battle all the more difficult.
The actress added that she wishes someone had told her to freeze her eggs when she was younger, adding that she has now come to terms with the fact that she will never conceive children.
‘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,’ she said.
Jennifer – who spent ten years starring on the hit sitcom Friends, from 1994 until 2004 – admitted that she was too focused on her career to think about the fact that her future self may one day want to settle down and have children, although she hit out at the constant scrutiny she faced for not getting pregnant during her five-year marriage to Pitt.
‘I just cared about my career. And God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child,’ she said. ‘And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn’t give him a kid. It was absolute lies. I don’t have anything to hide at this point.’
She then faced further scrutiny during her marriage to Justin, now 52, with reports at the time of their 2017 split suggesting that part of the reason for their break-up was her inability to have children.
In February 2018, months after their divorce was made public, People magazine reported that the pair had tried for children, but that ‘it didn’t work out’, with one source saying that Jennifer was ‘sad that it never happened but that it never consumed her’.
‘It was a challenging road for me’: Aniston, who does not have any children, described last year her regret at not freezing her eggs earlier in life and the various methods she underwent in a desperate attempt to conceive; pictured 2020
Speaking to Allure last year, the actress insisted that she has come to terms with the fact that she won’t have children, noting that she actually feels some ‘relief’ in the fact that the possibility of kids is no longer lingering over her as never-ending ‘maybe’.
Indeed, with age has come a new-found sense of confidence in herself – and the actress said she no longer cares what people think or say about her, thanks in large part to the struggles she faced during her late 30s and 40s.
‘I would say 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,’ she explained.
‘That’s why I have such gratitude for all those s****y things. Otherwise, I would’ve been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were. And now, I don’t f***ing care.’
Jennifer added that she ‘feels the best in who she is today’, explaining that she has learned to stop saying ‘bad s*** to herself’.
‘It was absolute lies’: She also slammed speculation that any of her former husbands – she has been married to both Brad Pitt and Justin Theroux – divorced her because she ‘wouldn’t give him a kid’, noting that the constant rumors about her relationship made her infertility battle all the more difficult
The way they were: Aniston pictured with her then-partner Justin Theroux in 2014
She explained that she’s been through what she describes as a ‘period that was challenging’ and is only now ‘coming back into the light’ – having done some ‘personal work that was long overdue’ and faced up to issues that had been a part of her life since childhood.
Jennifer also hinted that she may one day pen a book about her lengthy infertility struggles – something that she chose to kept hidden from the world for years out a need to ‘protect’ herself and her story.
‘I’m going to [write a book] one day,’ she said. ‘I’m going to stop saying, “I can’t write.”
‘I’ve spent so many years protecting my story about IVF. I’m so protective of these parts because I feel like there’s so little that I get to keep to myself. The world creates narratives that aren’t true, so I might as well tell the truth. I feel like I’m coming out of hibernation. I don’t have anything to hide.’
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