Jennifer Aniston Condemns 'Pressure On Women To Be Mothers' & Creates Her Own ‘Happily Ever After’ Without Partner Or Kids

Jul 01, 2022 by apost team

Jennifer Aniston is an American actress that rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green in the hit series "Friends." Born to two actors, John Aniston and Nancy Dow, she came to acting early in life. While attending her Waldorf school, Aniston fell in love with acting at age 11.

She later enrolled at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan. After high school, Aniston worked part-time jobs like waitressing and telemarketing to support herself while she performed in off-Broadway productions. She would eventually move to Los Angeles, California, where she would soon hit fame. 

She is best known for playing the role of Rachel Green on the hit television series "Friends," which aired from 1994 to 2004. She won a primetime Emmy Award for playing Rachel, as well as a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award. Her character was extremely popular and is considered one of the best female roles in television history. 

Aniston has also starred in a number of films and is considered one of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses. Films that star Aniston in a leading role have grossed over 1.6 billion worldwide, 12 of those films earned over 100 million dollars. Her most popular film roles were in "Bruce Almighty," "The Break-Up," "Horrible Bosses," and "We're the Millers."

With Aniston's major A-list reputation, it is no surprise her name has been in and out of tabloids and press since she stepped on the scene many years ago. When it comes to her past and personal life, she is taking matters into her own hands. 

Aniston and actor Brad Pitt first met and began dating in 1998. Their relationship instantly gained widespread media attention. After two years together, they tied the knot on July 29, 2000, in Malibu, California. The two were head-over-heels in love with each other, and Pitt even guest-starred on an episode of "Friends" in 2001, although he played Rachel's enemy rather than her love interest. 

Although the couple appeared more than happy together in the eyes of the media, they soon announced that they were going to end their marriage. After five years of married life, the couple announced their separation, and their divorce was finalized in October 2005. 

During an interview with Howard Stern on his Sirius XM show, "The Howard Stern Show," Aniston revealed that she and Pitt are still friends. PEOPLE reported that the star, 53, and Pitt, 58, were reunited in September 2020 for a live table reading of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." The two even played love interests during the table reading.

After Aniston and Pitt split and went their separate ways, Aniston eventually moved on. In 2007 on the set of "Tropic Thunder," Aniston first met actor Justin Theroux although they wouldn't start dating until 2011. The couple got engaged in 2012 but didn't tie the knot until August of 2015. The two were married from 2015 until 2018, when they divorced amicably. 

Just like Aniston and Pitt continued to be friends, she and Theroux have also continued to remain on friendly terms with each other. It's not usual that a divorced couple can stay friends after their divorce, so this says a lot about the character of Aniston and her ex-husbands.

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Both Pitt and Aniston had been very vocal that the end of their relationship was not as the media portrayed it, but the stories of drama took on a life of their own over the years. Marie Claire reported that the couple was back on speaking terms since Pitt's divorce from Angelina Jolie and had since rekindled their friendship. It seems like the friendship is going well enough, and neither person has any bad feelings left over from their divorce. 

One rumor was that Aniston and Pitt got divorced because the actress didn’t want children. She cleared that up in 2006 when she told Vanity Fair: “I’ve never in my life said I didn’t want to have children. I did and I do and I will!”

Aniston addressed similar rumors again in 2018 in an interview with InStyle, as per TODAY. The star said:

“The misconceptions are ‘Jen can’t keep a man,’ and ‘Jen refuses to have a baby because she’s selfish and committed to her career.’ Or that I’m sad and heartbroken. First, with all due respect, I’m not heartbroken. And second, those are reckless assumptions. No one knows what’s going on behind closed doors. No one considers how sensitive that might be for my partner and me. They don’t know what I’ve been through medically or emotionally.”

The actress also added: “There is a pressure on women to be mothers, and if they are not, then they’re deemed damaged goods. Maybe my purpose on this planet isn’t to procreate. Maybe I have other things I’m supposed to do.”

Although Aniston may not walk down the aisle again, as she revealed to People in June 2021, she is pretty content with her life. "I'm in a really peaceful place," she said. "I have a job that I love, I have people in my life who are everything to me, and I have beautiful dogs. I'm just a very fortunate and blessed human being." 

Aniston opened up to Elle in 2018 and said,

"I don't feel a void. I really don't. My marriages, they've been very successful, in (my) personal opinion. And when they came to an end, it was a choice that was made because we chose to be happy, and sometimes happiness didn't exist within that arrangement anymore.”

"Sure, there were bumps, and not every moment felt fantastic, obviously, but at the end of it, this is our one life and I would not stay in a situation out of fear. Fear of being alone. Fear of not being able to survive. To stay in a marriage based on fear feels like you're doing your one life a disservice. When the work has been put in and it doesn't seem that there's an option of it working, that's okay. That's not a failure," Aniston added. 

Aniston's outlook on marriage is inspiring. She told the Huffington Post in 2016:

"We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies… We don't need to be married or mothers to be complete. We get to determine our own' happily ever after' for ourselves."

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