Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston, after 20 years of trying to conceive, candidly said she "didn't want to adopt."
In a recently released preview of the podcast Armchair Expert, Aniston confessed, "Many people say, 'You could always adopt,' but I wanted a child with my DNA. Whether selfish or not, that was the only way I wanted."
The 56-year-old Aniston said she tried for a long time to overcome infertility and underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF), but eventually stopped all treatments a few years ago. She said, "At a certain point it was out of my control. Hearing a doctor say 'it's over now' feels like a very strange emotion," and added, "It was emotionally very difficult then, but now I've found peace."
She also reflected calmly, "Sometimes I thought about how wonderful it would have been to have had a child with past lovers, but that thought would disappear in a few seconds."
Earlier, in a 2016 Huffington Post essay titled 'Fed Up,' Aniston expressed discomfort with social judgment, saying "we are whole whether or not we marry or have children." She emphasized, "No one knew about 20 years of trying and pain. People call me selfish or say I'm only focused on work, but I'm just human."
Aniston married actor Brad Pitt in the early 2000s, but they divorced in 2005. Pitt later met Angelina Jolie and built a family by adopting and having six children. Aniston remarried actor Justin Theroux afterward, but they split in 2017.
She is currently dating hypnotherapist Jim Curtis. Meanwhile, she appears as Alex Levy in season 4 of the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show and is reported to receive about $2 million per episode (about 280 million won) in appearance fees.
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