Jennifer Aniston On Her Failed Marriage To Brad Pitt & ‘Selfish’ Choice To Not Have Kids

Feb 21, 2022 by apost team

As one of the most popular television shows of all time, “Friends” won countless awards, accolades and fans over the show’s 10-year run from 1994 to 2004. On paper, the show might seem rather ordinary. 

As its name suggests, the show revolves around a group of six friends — Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Monica Geller (Courtney Cox), Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry), and Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) — as they live life as young adults in New York City. The show follows the ensemble cast as they date each other, move in together, and further their careers in Manhattan.

Not only is “Friends” the highest-rated television show of all time, but it also aired one of the most-watched television episodes in history: the series finale attracted 52.5 million viewers. To say the least, that means that the NBC show has plenty of fans that were thrilled for the cast reunion in 2020.

The series also saw its fair share of guest appearances from stars like Tom Selleck, Reese Witherspoon, Maggie Wheeler and Thomas Lennon, who will also appear on the HBO reunion special.

Shortly before the reunion special aired, Lisa Kudrow, Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox gave an online interview on Access Online where they recalled their favorite celebrities who appeared on the show, and one very special name came up. 

Aniston got the chance to open up about her ex, Brad Pitt, and shared what it was like working with him when he guest-starred on the show. The actress has also addressed rumors claiming she can’t have children and denied that being the reason her past relationships haven’t worked out. Read on to learn more about Aniston’s views on motherhood. 

In an interview with Access Online, Aniston, Cox and Kudrow recalled some of their favorite celebrity guest stars on "Friends." Some of their favorites included Tom Selleck, who played Monica's love interest, Richard, Ben Stiller, who had a cameo as Rachel's date "Tommy" in season 3, Resse Witherspoon, who played Rachel's sister, and Paul Rudd, who played Phoebe's boyfriend-turned-husband, Mike.

During the discussion, one more name came up, which may have left Aniston fans surprised. "Mr. Pitt was wonderful," Aniston said, referring to Brad Pitt's cameo as a former classmate of Rachel and Monica, Will Colbert, on the show in 2001. Us Weekly reported that even though he only showed up in one episode in season 8, he went on to receive an Emmy nomination for his role.

Back in 2000, Pitt and Aniston were married, and their relationship was one of the most followed ones in the media. Most significantly, Pitt's romantic relationships have been at the forefront of gossip columns and tabloids for over a decade. His first marriage to Aniston was, as all major celebrity relationships, followed by the media for a while. 

However, the public dissolution of this marriage and the rumors of infidelity with his co-star Angelina Jolie led to a very public interest in all the concerned parties. For a while, arguments would erupt over people who identified either as #TeamAniston or #TeamJolie, reported CNN. 

Pitt ended up leaving Aniston for Jolie, and the supercouple pair, nicknamed "Brangelina" by the media, became something of a media sensation themselves for their marriage as well as their growing family. Jolie and Pitt remained together from 2005 and married in 2014, but went their separate ways in 2017 and divorced in 2019.

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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 in 2019 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. 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.”

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