The The friends The actress, 53, admitted she even tried IVF to get pregnant a few years ago in a new cover story with Allure. “In my late 30s, 40s, I had gone through some really tough stuff, and if I hadn’t gone through that, I would never have become who I was supposed to be,” she said, before clarifying that it was “trying to get pregnant.”
“It’s been a tough road for me, the road of making babies,” Jennifer continued. “All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I was undergoing IVF, drinking Chinese teas. I was throwing everything at him. I would give anything if someone said to me “Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.” You just don’t think about it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
Although she didn’t end up having children, Jennifer said she has no regrets.
“I’m actually a little bit relieved now because there’s no more, ‘Can I? It can. It can. It can.’ I don’t have to think about it anymore,” he said.
She then mentioned the stress that came from being “told that I was just being selfish” for not having children. “I just cared about my career. And may God make a woman successful and childless. And the reason my husband left me, because we divorced and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn’t give him a child. They were complete lies. I have nothing to hide right now.”
Jennifer previously was “so frustrated” with the media’s obsession with getting pregnant that she wrote an op-ed about it for the Huff Post, where she called out the “sports scrutiny and body shaming that happens every day under her guise.” journalism’, the ‘First Amendment’ and ‘celebrity news’.
You can read it here and her Allure interview here.
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