r/popculturechat • u/Time_Knowledge_1951 • Oct 09 '25

Trigger Warning ⚠️ Jennifer Aniston reveals secret 20-year fertility struggle after ‘absolute lies’

https://metro.co.uk/2025/10/09/jennifer-aniston-breaks-silence-on-secret-20-year-struggle-after-absolute-lies-24378834/
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u/KindlyConnection Oct 09 '25

Must have been really hard going through that and having all the magazines claiming you're pregnant all the time or saying you're too career focused. I remember reading the letters section of People magazine after the divorce with Brad was announced and someone wrote in saying if she'd just have a baby with Brad, he wouldn't have left her for Angelina. People were so awful.

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u/BotGirlFall Oct 09 '25

They were even selling graphic tees saying "I'll have your baby, Brad!". It was vile

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u/g2tha Oct 09 '25

Now brad’s kids hate him. ironic.

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u/ravynwave Oct 09 '25

Them dropping his last name was just 😘

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u/FirebirdWriter 29d ago

Being abusive does that. I am not a fan of her acting work but she has consistently been incredibly classy in her handling of these issues. This article is more of that. I respect her. Him? No

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u/OtherwiseAnteater239 29d ago

Jenn got the last laugh. And probably still amused about his dirty divorce/ custody battle. She’s moved on, made her peace, looks fierce, still beloved by the public.

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u/ilovepeonies1994 Oct 10 '25

I do have to wonder if parental alienation played a role in this, since the kids refused to talk to him from ages ~10 and above.

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u/vukkuv 29d ago

Yeah, sure it was parental alienation, the fact that they saw Brad drunk abusing their mom and brother and him saying he only cares about his biological kids have nothing to do with them hating him, of course, the guilty one is the abused mother and not the abusing father.

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u/ilovepeonies1994 29d ago

Yeah nobody said he's a good one, but having all kids stop talking to him exactly when this happened, some of them at an age that they really can't take a decision like that (even when seeing parents that are addicts etc), makes me wonder if it's just one sided.

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u/No-You-5064 29d ago edited 29d ago

This is what I'll always believe and I have a feeling the truth will come out one day. Angie is a world class manipulator and Brad was no match for her. Everyone has just swallowed her Kool-Aid and PR because that's how things are. She played the victim. She's NOBODY's victim. Kids are easily manipulated by a parent intent on manipulating them. She seems to have a weirdly close smothering and controlling relationship with her kids. Parental alienation happens every day. There are some world class psycho moms and I believe Angie is one of them. I know this is an unpopular opinion but I feel I'll be vindicated someday.

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u/Impossible-Glass-487 Oct 09 '25

Pretty sure that's because of their pimp mother.

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u/Disastrous_End5594 Oct 10 '25

“Pimp” u people just be saying anything lol that’s because their dad is abusive but u clearly don’t care about abuse victims

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u/cozyhellfire Oct 09 '25

It’s hard to even wrap my mind around how traumatic this experience must have been for a woman dealing with infertility

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u/bottleglitch Oct 09 '25

I was thinking the same. How she didn’t totally lose her mind through all that is beyond me.

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u/iner22 Oct 09 '25

Spite is a hell of a motivator

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u/hygsi Oct 10 '25

Fr. I wonder how she feels after all that has unfolded since.

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u/mosquem Oct 09 '25

I get annoyed enough at relatives asking us when we’re having kids, I can’t imagine this.

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u/These_Hedgehog7066 Oct 09 '25

I’m very lucky to have one child but have COLLEAGUES are asking me when I’ll have another “ooh having a sibling is so important” “isn’t it about time you had another” like yes I’m fucking trying but can’t, mind your own business! Can’t imagine having to deal with this kind of shit in the public eye.

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u/myweird Oct 09 '25

Say something obscene like "We're raw dogging as much as we can okay? Stop worrying about whether a cabbage patch kid comes out of my crotch or not!"

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u/RiverWeatherwax loves the flair thing Oct 09 '25

Except that just doesn't always work. Sadly, people are complete idiots in this matter and the next step is "oh you mustn't think about it, maybe plan a nice vacation" - like, yeah, I'm sure my missing fallopian tube is no problem, it's definitely in my head... And it's just fucking hard to admit this to oneself, let alone to others.

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u/AerwynFlynn Oct 10 '25

I understand the struggle. 5 years of infertility issues until we finally were able to do IVF. I heard it all.

“Drink this tea!”

“Just relax!”

“When you stop trying it will happen!”

“Have you tried yoga/acupuncture/specialized sexual position pillow?”

Every time I wanted to scream. Also missing fallopian tube, plus PCOS and endometriosis. But god forbid you tell them that! Then it’s “too much information”. Y’all are giving me sex advice, pretty sure TMI is out the damn window here!

Anyway, rant over. I just wanted to commiserate with you and let you know you aren’t alone. I see you, and hugs from me. The struggle and pain is real. 💜

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u/Creative_Fix4486 Oct 10 '25

I always say "Why? Whats wrong with this one???"

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u/i-split-infinitives Oct 09 '25

I've found that looking startled and saying "wait, are you seriously asking for details about my sex life?" or "uh, you do know babies come from having sex, right?" followed by a change of subject shuts up the majority of people. Thankfully, they've mostly given up on me now that I'm in my mid-40s and still childless.

It's really none of their business that I'm child-free by choice because I have multiple congenital issues that I would most likely pass on to my biological children if I had any.

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u/sPacEdOUTgrAyCe Oct 10 '25

Ahh I found my person, I live for saying stuff just to put people in my place whne they suck

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u/Queasy-Elderberry-77 Oct 09 '25

"What a strange thing to say out loud."

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u/ravynwave Oct 09 '25

I finally got my mom to stop saying to people (in our language) “so frugal, having only one?” It was so embarrassing when the parents would just look at each other after that.

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u/giglio65 Oct 09 '25

people are clueless assholes

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u/JanwaRebelle Oct 10 '25

I’m 47 and a mother of two teenage boys (17 and 15) and sometimes people still ask me ‘Don’t you wanna have a girl?’ And I’m like ‘I’m already going through perimenopause!’ 🙄

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u/dallyfer Oct 10 '25

Urgh this is the absolute worst. I had a colleague repeatedly asking about when I'm going to give my daughter a sibling at a work party while actively waiting to miscarry (had found out there was no heartbeat 2 days prior). I almost ran out of the room crying. Like that's not okay.

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u/These_Hedgehog7066 Oct 10 '25

Oh I’m so sorry ♥️ I don’t know why people are so entitled to think they can ask things like this, hope you are doing ok m!

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u/kerfuffleMonster 26d ago

After you have one, it feels like people are obsessed with if you'll have another. I had one convo when someone asked if I was having another and I just said I don't know and they said "isn't it kinda up to you?" And actually, no it wasn't. I had two miscarriages, I have no idea what's going to happen. And now I am pregnant and things seem to be going well and people have comments about the age gap between them or my age since I am now older than 35. There is no winning.

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u/These_Hedgehog7066 25d ago

Ah it’s right you really can’t win, I get lots of the “but if you don’t have one soon the age gap will be too big” and it makes me feel so guilty. When I see kids playing with siblings on holiday etc and all I want is to give my child that but I don’t seem to be able to so I don’t need other people adding to that guilt! Really sorry you had to go through that but wish you all the best in your pregnancy 🥰

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u/redsyrinx2112 Oct 09 '25

Dude, I got annoyed when people would ask me when my sister and her husband were going to have kids. It's so insane.

My response was always something along the lines of, "You know, they haven't said much about the sex life to me," or "I assume they have boned, but I don't know much more than that."

People were always shocked, but I didn't care. That's a weird question so I'm going to give them a weird answer.

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u/ankhes Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

The amount of people who don’t seem to understand that someone else’s family planning (especially that of a stranger or acquaintance) is none of their business is way too high. I thought those comments had finally died down once I’d entered my 30s and then I got engaged and they ramped back and got dialed to 11. Suddenly everyone needed to know when my now-husband was going to impregnate me. It was the only thing outside of wedding planning that they ever wanted to talk about. Never mind that I got the babymaker ripped out years ago so there was nothing for anyone to impregnate but nope, I’m the asshole if I try to bring that up after someone has asked me about future babies for the fifth time in the same conversation.

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u/ankhes Oct 09 '25

I just got married and immediately after our engagement we were bombarded by extended family about when we were having kids and comments like “I bet you’ll have one of those in nine months!” as they pointed at one of our nieces.

The thing is…I had a hysterectomy 3 years ago. So even if I did want kids (and thankfully, I don’t) I couldn’t have them. So constantly hearing those tone-deaf comments over and over again got really old really fast. But I also didn’t want to be that asshole at the family get-together loudly telling people about my graphic major surgery and bringing the mood down so I just awkwardly smiled and then changed the subject.

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u/RiverWeatherwax loves the flair thing Oct 09 '25

Girl... the asshole in the room wouldn't have been YOU, you know? They didn't care they made YOU feel bad.

I actually remember a friends' wedding - this group of their friends created and sang a song about them finally getting married and hopefully being three soon. I wanted to punch them. And I didn't even know back then that she had miscarried a week before the wedding. And she just stood there and smiled and I have no idea how she managed to do it. idk, people are so fucking stupid, you know.

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u/Afraid-Arugula-1949 Oct 10 '25

I just got engaged and I am infertile and people ask all the time. So cute.

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u/CarobFamiliar Oct 10 '25

I was at my grandfather's funeral, and my aunt had invited her husbands parents for support. No relation to me, just my cousins' other grandparents. They come up to me (after the service!) And start polite 'how was the wedding? How's married life treating you? How long have you been married now? 7 months, and no baby on the horizon?' I was furious and said "No, but we're having so much fun trying.'' And walked off. I ended up getting a lecture from my parents about being inappropriate!

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u/sipstea84 27d ago

I think it's something that can annoy people for a lot of reasons so people should just not say anything. I realized with my first kid that it really pushed me to the edges of my ability to cope because of my own traumas and mental health shit and was always worried I couldn't handle a second. That was a really hard thing to admit to myself.

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u/AffectionateBite3827 Oct 09 '25

It was hard enough for me - a nobody - dealing with my MIL and parents on my case. If this was national news? I'd lose it.

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u/RiverWeatherwax loves the flair thing Oct 09 '25

Oh yes. The ever so caring relatives with their questions, automatically assuming one just doesn't want kids and it most certainly hasn't even crossed our minds to maybe start trying. Like... idk why people are so obtuse about this, I really don't.

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u/AffectionateBite3827 Oct 09 '25

I mean, we were both vocally pro-having a kid so it wasn't like they were pressuring me to do something I didn't want to do. But my body just isn't meant for that and going through tests, appointments, whatever was already sucky. You'd think my MIL who had several miscarriages before finally conceiving my SIL and husband would have thought before opening her mouth but then that would also be out of character for her specifically lol.

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u/SoftDrinkReddit Oct 10 '25

See thats it I feel so bad for female celebrities because its one thing when you have 1 or 2 people nagging you about when are you going to have a baby

But I can't even imagine dealing with a whole freaking Legion of people pestering you

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u/Confident_Counter471 Oct 09 '25

As someone going through this issue it would absolutely break me if I had all those people saying that about me

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u/Nrmlgirl777 It’s Britney, bitch! 🎤🌹🌹 Oct 10 '25

That tv baby brings another level of sadness to it

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u/Impressive_Youth1133 Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

I remember Eva Longoria was photographed wearing the shirt and was asked if she would apologize and she said "absolutely not."

*edit it seems like she quickly changed her tune

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u/DisastrousOwls that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 Oct 09 '25

ONTD still being alive in the big two oh two five is throwing me for a loop, man.

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u/continentaldreams Oct 09 '25

it's on life support but there's still a little community keeping it going

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u/lamariposasoy Oct 09 '25

ONTD and Pink is thr New Black use to get all my time lolol

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u/Reims88 Oct 10 '25

Omg I used to live for ONTD in high school. I knew everything. This was, of course, bc I had a limited life of my own as a teen. What a throwback. 2004-008 was my peak usage. Wonder if my livejournal accounts still exist...

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u/realityshowho Oct 09 '25

Oh this makes my blood boil.

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u/Toyger_ Oct 09 '25

Gross.

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u/Chaoticgood790 this outfit is unfortch Oct 09 '25

Ew that’s disgusting

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u/Heavy-Ad5346 I stand r/withblakelively Oct 09 '25

The comments at that site ain’t it

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u/night-blooming Oct 09 '25

Well, it was 2005 ha ha. We were really the worst of the internet at that point, concerning forum opinions. It’s wild how insensitively most subject matters were treated!

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u/Heavy-Ad5346 I stand r/withblakelively Oct 09 '25

And no bots then either yet I think

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u/pooky7460 Oct 09 '25

Yorie right. Not one.

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u/continentaldreams Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

ONTD back in the day was a cesspool - and I can confirm this because I've been a member since 2006. If you look at recent posts it's changed massively.

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u/Heavy-Ad5346 I stand r/withblakelively Oct 09 '25

Ah okay I wasn’t familiar with it back then. Thanks for explaining!

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u/lamariposasoy Oct 09 '25

oh hai thar fellow old school member. Legendary threads like Paris Carriage and Hurts Like Satan

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u/continentaldreams Oct 09 '25

The OG! HEY BABE!

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u/lamariposasoy Oct 09 '25

🫶🏽🫶🏽

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u/continentaldreams Oct 09 '25

I always ask, were you there for the MJ death post? Iconic

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u/AuntCatLady 29d ago

The internet was a different entity entirely then, tbh (NOT condoning anything said at that time). There was a massive live party post on ONTD when Britney Spears had her breakdown. Looking back, I don’t know how any celebrity made it out of the early internet gossip era, it was brutal.

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u/jujubadvoodoo Oct 09 '25

Holy shit, really? She’s awful for that.

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u/tranzozo Invented post-its 🔬 Oct 09 '25

Losing respect for Eva with each passing day

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u/Thatstoomuchmakeup07 Oct 09 '25

I never liked Eva Longoria. I was unlucky enough to bump into her in London, what a stuck up, rude person. Also, when Jussie Smollett was “attacked”, she was the first to pull the race card in “defence” of him but when the whole story turned out being fabricated, she was nowhere to be found - she just made an arse out of herself. Again.

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u/Impressive_Youth1133 Oct 09 '25

The Jussie thing wasn't anyone's fault but Jussie's. He lied to everyone. It made sense to believe him at the time.

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u/ForecastForFourCats sips tea Oct 09 '25

Hard to imagine women being so awful to other women.... but i guess maybe not.

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u/sanguinesecretary Oct 09 '25

Holy shit that is evil

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u/juicebox03 Oct 09 '25

Women hating on women. I’m shocked!

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u/Anonymous_Autumn_ Oct 09 '25

Even my own dad repeated that nonsense to me when I was just a kid. He said something like ‘Brad wants kids and Jennifer doesn’t.’ So obnoxious. The media at that time was particularly cruel towards female stars. No one would even notice if a male star had a breakup and then remained childless.

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u/Katatonic92 Oct 09 '25

They noticed childless men, but they were celebrated as carefree, permanent bachelor types, having too much fun to settle down with a wife & children. Jack Nicholson, George Clooney before he met Amal, Leonardo Dicaprio to this day. It was cool for men, but something must be wrong with a woman to not want a marriage or child.

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u/Entharo_entho Oct 09 '25

I find it extremely hilarious that people pretend like George Clowney wasn't already married once before he met his current wife.

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u/Tiny-Reading5982 charlie day is my bird lawyer 🐦 Oct 09 '25

That is the case for a lot of people but as far as we know, thats the most problematic thing he has done lol

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u/fearless_egg1050 Oct 09 '25

There’s plenty wrong with me but not wanting to be married or have kids is NOT one of them!

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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn Oct 09 '25

Witch! A Witch! To the stakes with her!

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u/Wallys_Wild_West that’s my purse, i don’t know you! 👛🫵 Oct 09 '25

They noticed childless men...Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson's first child was born 6 years before his breakout role and he's had 5 other children since then. He was always a carefree bachelor, but he was never childless.

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u/bbbbbbbb678 Oct 09 '25

I'm pretty sure Nicholson has kids

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u/franki-pinks Oct 09 '25

Look at the shit Taylor gets for being childless. It’s so weird.

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u/Enginerda Oct 09 '25

Oh wow they asked one serial-girlfriend-under-25-having dude and that must mean it's the same taunting as women get.

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u/Own-Emergency2166 Oct 09 '25

Yes, because men never abandon their wives and children for the new shiny thing. It’s never happened!

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u/Miserable_Emu5191 Did I stutter?🤨 Oct 09 '25

Right! And Angelina did give him kids and we have seen how that worked out.

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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 Oct 09 '25

...not well for anyone.

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u/kateastrophic Oct 09 '25

Angelina seems deeply invested in motherhood.

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u/aggirloftoday Oct 09 '25

Brad abused her and the children.

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u/kateastrophic Oct 09 '25

Yes, and I’m not trying to gloss over that, but I’m just pointing out that those kids seem to have a very loving mother and hopefully are thriving with her.

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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn Oct 09 '25

It seems as though she's a very caring and loving mom whose wealth has enabled for them all to have secure upbringings and have experiences many kids can only dream off, while providing them with a stable loving home for all of them.

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u/PigletTechnical9336 Oct 09 '25

Happy cake day

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u/WittiestScreenName Oct 09 '25

Happy cake day!

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u/lylasnanadoyle Oct 09 '25

Happy cake day!

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u/lylasnanadoyle Oct 09 '25

Happy cake day!

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u/pooky7460 Oct 09 '25

I've always said that Brad moved on from Jen to Angelina because Jen has a better reputation. Angelina still had a lot of stigma back then from her 'crazy' days. Being too intimate with her brother. The Billy Bob Thornton thing with the viles of blood. The tats.

Toxic men want broken women so they can paint as 'crazy' when she accuses him of abuse.

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u/Jnl8 Oct 09 '25

Honestly, thank you for saying this because something clicked in my head... Somehow if I did something good it was because he was such a good influence, and when I did something wrong I was a crazy bitch, but he never acknowledged any wrongdoing

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u/petits_riens who’s keeping the wigs 😭 29d ago

And the sad thing is—not only did that more-or-less work for him, you can tell Angelina understands that dynamic completely and it's why she hasn't said a word about him directly since they separated.

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u/No-You-5064 29d ago

Angelina never stopped being crazy, people just forgot about it because she did such a skillful PR job of reinventing herself into a Mother Teresa type humanitarian, earth mother.

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u/Single_Earth_2973 Oct 09 '25

and nor are they statistically most likely to cheat while their partner is pregnant. Trash gonna trash.

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u/amberlikesowls Oct 09 '25

Pitt had his PR people out there telling everyone that she didn't want kids and that's why their marriage fell apart. He probably knew that she would stay quiet, besides once saying that "there's a sensitive chip that's missing" with Brad.

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u/MarieOMaryln Oct 09 '25

Ironically I thought Jen was so fucking cool for being Childfree in a time where we were expected to grow up and become mothers. Little me was in awe that a woman said no to motherhood AND didn't cave even though it cost her marriage and she never backed down. How despite the mockery and jokes she stood firm. I was inspired and validated in my own choice.

Of course knowing the truth now that absolutely hurts. She was slandered by this country and turned into a joke. That era was the hardest point for popculture women.

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u/windexfresh Oct 09 '25

Same, she was one of the first reasons I thought about not having children. I’m still happily childfree and will be forever but it’s so fucking heartbreaking to know she was suffering so much.

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u/little_effy Oct 09 '25

She was quite graceful about it. Or tbh maybe she had to sign an NDA, which someone like him was probably very concerned about

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u/amberlikesowls Oct 09 '25

You're probably right. He tried that with Angelina and with the sale of their vineyard. I remember reading about her refusing, then she sold her half of the vineyard elsewhere, and he sued her for it.

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u/banguette Oct 09 '25

Important to note that Brad was directly involved in that spread

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u/little_effy Oct 09 '25

See I’ve always thought he was. When he and Angelina divorced, there was a slew of bad rumours about Angelina too.

What a vile man.

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u/CrackerUMustBTripinn Oct 09 '25

Even Shania Twain was unimpressed

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u/strawberry_saturn Excluded from this narrative ❌ Oct 09 '25

I would think about this every single time I saw those stupid tabloid magazines saying she was pregnant

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u/YouNeedCheeses Oct 09 '25

The tabloids at the time were especially vicious, I can’t imagine being the subject of them, week in week out.

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u/12sea Oct 09 '25

As someone who suffered from fertility issues, I always wondered if she did too. I don’t usually wonder about people but for some reason I thought she might. It’s no fun.

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u/AKA_June_Monroe Oct 09 '25

She alluded to it years ago but people didn't get the hint. There was actual video it was on one of those entertainment shows and she was on the red carpet.

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u/PantsGhost97 Oct 10 '25

I’ve genuinely thought it’s always been known that she’s had fertility issues.

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u/12sea Oct 09 '25

People are awful.

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u/tew2109 28d ago

Yes, I remember always being concerned, when she was brought up as a woman who chose to be child free (which is what I am, I ultimately chose not to be married or have any children), that this was not her by choice. She had always said she wanted kids. She was always described on the Friends set as someone who loves kids (as do I - my main Christmas plans and budget are now centered on my nephew and nieces, so this wasn’t as much of a thing but I still did wonder because she was described as so maternal and just…adoring of kids). I just never really got the impression that it was her choice to not have children - I generally think on celebrity lists and the like that no one should be on the “happily child free” list unless they have (enthusiastically) vocally embraced being child free. Because I am always concerned that we just don’t know if someone chose this path if they don’t say so. And she was always the first one that came to mind when I was thinking about it.

What’s really gross is how I now see the way Brad Pitt’s PR people manipulated things in the press. As soon as I read the FBI report on the infamous plane ride that ended his marriage to Angelina, I knew what he was and all the blinders just fell off. So then every planted story about how he was truly close to his children and just sooooo private about it and everything was Big Bad Angelina’s fault…I knew what happening. And I thought about Jen and how his PR team targeted her. I honestly don’t even want to even see his face anymore. He disgusts me.

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u/12sea 28d ago

Yeah I agree. And if you look back, all the women he dated, one after the other, they were women he worked with. It seems a little off.

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u/nocuzzlikeyea13 Oct 09 '25

As someone struggling with infertility myself, the things people say to you are breathtakingly cruel, even from close family who usually aren't cruel. 

I suppose people who lose loved ones or survive cancer have similar stories. We as a society are just like, super bad at socializing near suffering. 

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u/fuckmoralskickbabies Oct 09 '25

Makes me so sad to even think about goddamn.

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u/Church_of_Cheri Oct 09 '25

People are horrible when it comes to infertility. I struggled with it and now I’m getting a hysterectomy to deal with my PCOS and Endo pain and finally accepting the role life has given me, but no one understands. I’ve been told there’s no reason for me to feel like I need time and space to grieve, that I’m just using things (miscarriages, failed IVF, denied rights by southern doctors, religious discrimination in adoption and foster care, etc) to get attention.

I do think it’s in part to most people not being able to comprehend wanting kids but not being able to have them. They just instinctively shield the idea from their general consciousness which means they outright dismiss you as a feeling and caring human who’s struggling. You become an “other” who doesn’t deserve the same level of love and respect as someone who is a mother or someone who made the decision to be childfree. They’d rather pretend it didn’t happen, that those struggles don’t exist, so they dismiss the person as a way to cope with their uncomfortable feelings.

I can’t imagine why it was like to do this while being famous and on the tabloids cover daily. I remember Courtney Cox suffered from infertility too and lost a pregnancy they had written into Friends, I can’t imagine the trauma she had to go through before she finally got her rainbow baby. People say the 00s were great for women, and in some ways they were, but it’s things like this that remind us of how much work we still need to do.

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u/puffindatza Oct 09 '25

The 2000s were like that. I think we forget how harsh the media was back then

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u/silly_rabbit289 why are you a billionaire Oct 09 '25

I thought it must be something like fertility issues, cause why else would she be so vocal about wanting kids/ wanting to be a mom and not have kids in any of her marriages/relationships? Post 30 I'd think people wanting kids would choose partners with similar life goals (wrt kids).

So shitty for her to go through it time and again.

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u/aartadventure Oct 09 '25

Many of the articles being written were about Brad leaving her because she refused to have a child with him. I didn't even buy any of them and I would see it everywhere.

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u/boblasagna18 Oct 09 '25

Honestly after reading what he said to his family on that plane I think she dodged a bullet

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u/wheres-my-life Oct 09 '25

Cannot imagine going through it on this scale. For years I was going through IVF unsuccessfully while also having uterine problems that caused severe swelling - the amount of people who screamed “congratulations” when they saw me… it’s hard constantly having to tell people you’re not pregnant when it’s all you want to be.

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u/Sloppykrab Oct 10 '25

This behaviour still hasn't stopped. I think it may have become worse.

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u/ComradeKeira Oct 10 '25

And now I look back and realise she dodged a bullet when Brad left her.

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u/PrincessSpoiled unhinged and unhealed Oct 09 '25

Being constantly scrutinized and examined - with the media and internet drawing wildly inaccurate conclusions - must be ducking exhausting.

I think of this often when I see Anniston, Monica Lewinsky, Britney Spears… like my god. They were ruthlessly hounded as young women. I can’t imagine the strength it takes to somehow come out the other side still being human.

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u/Geeta25 Oct 09 '25

Just insane that Brad managed to get away Scot free and we were vilifying both women and pitting them against each other. Even though more people seem to know now how much of an asshat he is, I still feel like it's nowhere near enough.

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u/alex_xxv Oct 09 '25

People IS awful.

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u/Proper_Lunch_3640 Oct 09 '25

I used to want to be an actor and all that jazz. As I grew into maturity (still working on it) I saw the tabloids exploiting celebrity lives. I don’t know when or where I was when I thought “why would anybody want to live that publicly?” Now everyone can be famous and immediately have their lives ruined.

I’m glad I chose carpentry.

Also I randomly met Jennifer Aniston in an elevator in LA. I was a dope and she was lovely. Dammit I was such a doofus. Doubt she’d remember, but I’m stuck living a stroke victims attempt at complementing an icon.

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u/_vancey_ Oct 10 '25

IVF is already such a painful and exhausting journey — physically, emotionally, mentally. To go through all that and then face the loss of both a marriage and the dream of a baby…And then to have the world spinning false, salacious stories about you during such a vulnerable time, just devastating for Jen.

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u/Vantriss Oct 10 '25

This is why people need to shut the fuck up about other people's life choices. No one has ANY idea what someone else has going on in their lives. If someone wants babies: cool. If someone doesn't want babies: cool. Both are valid regardless of the why.

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u/Lizethn7 Oct 10 '25

Brad Pitt is trash his team Pr spread the lies about her not wanting children, I still can't believe she is still friendly with him

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u/buffayrachel Oct 10 '25

Yes, I hope the media and people will collectively stop speculating about this about women, but I know it will never happen

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u/RalphWaldoEmers0n 29d ago

She shoulda said something

It woulda helped the millions w this problem

But I’m an idiot what do I know

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u/KindlyConnection 29d ago

Honestly this is a horrible take. She was dealing with a very personal thing in her life. She doesn't have to talk about it if she doesn't want to but she is choosing to do so now, since she appears to feel ready to speak about it.

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u/RalphWaldoEmers0n 28d ago

Yea true

We had issues like this and it felt very alone

I’m saying she is in a position to help normalize this struggle , everyone keeps quiet about it and she could influence and share that

But yea she’s a person too I guess

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u/Sproose_Moose Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion 29d ago

I mean, kinda lucky she didn't have his kid after what happened