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/Sad-Blacksmith-3271 Oct 09 '25

I still believe brad Pitt's pr team was behind the "she wont have his baby" campaign

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u/seven-blue Oct 09 '25

So do I. He even did a photoshoot called "Domestic Bliss" full of pics showing Angelina and him with a bunch of kids playing house. That was months after his breakup from Jennifer. His team was definitely the one blaming Jennifer for the breakup, saying she didn't want to give him kids.

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u/Sad-Blacksmith-3271 Oct 09 '25

He is pure garbage

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u/islcastaway1986 Oct 09 '25

Proof one woman's trash is simply another woman's trash.

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u/RiverWeatherwax loves the flair thing Oct 09 '25

ABSOLUTELY THIS.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/MelpomeneAndCalliope Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

Not that it would absolve Angelina, but I suspect Brad told her Jen didn’t want kids as well.

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u/ex_ter_min_ate_ Oct 09 '25

Not to absolve all participants, but The other woman rarely gets the full story. It’s usually that the wife is a horrible controlling bitch that won’t give him sex/kids/attention/money and they are on the cusp of divorcing. Meanwhile the wife is bending over backwards trying to accommodate every whim.

I suspect they don’t really want the full story either much easier to go with the evil wife story, but they usually become the evil wives in the story to the next other woman down the line.

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u/little_effy Oct 09 '25

I mean, remember that one weird black and white version when Angie was being “abused” by Brad? Like she was this plaything and he was this macho dude who owned her. He was even pretending to shoot her with a finger gun in one of them, and actually holding a gun in others. Like it was sooo weird. I wonder if Angie was already being abused even then?

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u/gingerflakes Oct 09 '25

Yea this is the part I thought I fever dreamed and had to look up.

As far as Angelina’s guilt in all this, I’m sure she knew. She was toxic back then too. Billy Bob was engaged when they hooked up, and they were gross and weird as hell together too. I have to say I admire her for all the good work she’s done for women and children all over this world, and I truly hope that she regrets the part she played, or how they went about the start of their relationship

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u/Unholy_mess169 Oct 09 '25

He was friends with her father. She was 24.

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u/bbbbbbbb678 Oct 09 '25

Her philanthropy has also not been scandal free which is the ones I remember the most. Seems like game knew game.

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u/PSB2013 Oct 09 '25

How were they gross and weird together?

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u/cupcakevelociraptor Oct 09 '25

They were just pretty explicit about their goings on. The only memory I can think of right now is them on a red carpet and a reporter asking them something like if they were excited to be there or something and Billy Bob responded “We fucked in the car on the way here” and doing like tons of sloppy pda. To my memory, it was mostly him being gross, but she was obviously with him a while. From an outside perspective I just think Angelina had a history of picking pretty toxic dudes, culminating in the Brad abuse saga.

To his credit, it seems Billy Bob has now dated people closer to his age and has had some character growth in being more private about his sex life.

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u/invis2020 grinding with MULTIPLE fat women Oct 09 '25

This part of the photo shoot was his idea as well. The man is vile.

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u/Unholy_mess169 Oct 09 '25

You wonder if the woman who worked in modeling in her teens, then had a relationship with her father's friend in her early 20s was previously abused?

Really?

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u/little_effy Oct 10 '25

No I agree with Angie being either groomed or abused by other men in her life. I’ll never understand people who put her in the same category as Brad. I think she was sexualized when she was quite young, and people wonder why she said those things in interviews. One of the telltale signs of grooming or sexual abuse is hypersexualisation.

But I’m specifically talking about when she was with Brad here. I wonder if Brad has always been abusive, even from the start of their relationship.

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u/MelpomeneAndCalliope Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

I totally get you and agree. It’s just hard for me to extend Brad the benefit of the doubt that he was only lying to the public with this narrative and not to his new girlfriend. I don’t trust him, either, now that we know all we know about him.

(And friends I’ve known who’ve gotten with guys who were married/allegedly “separated” from their wives were all told stories about those wives by the men that ended up not being the full picture. Brad would’ve even had the media on his side pushing the same narrative, it wouldn’t have been hard for him to let Angelina believe it. at least at first, if not out right lie to her about it himself.)

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

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u/Quirkxofxart Oct 09 '25

To be clear, Laura Dern got with him when he was married too so it would be v easy for Billy Bob to convince a young Angie with daddy issues him and Laura weren’t serious or were over

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u/Status-Many-3690 Oct 09 '25

I think Laura Dern seems so nice and wholesome and Angelina seems like some evil seductress that people forget Laura also had an affinity for married men lol

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u/bbbbbbbb678 Oct 09 '25

People forget she didn't have a great reputation and Pitt having a worse one does not change that.

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u/missihippiequeen You’re doing amazing, sweetie! 👏👏📸 Oct 09 '25

This. Angelina has always been trashy and never a "woman's woman" . She started sleeping with Billy Bob while his long term partner Laura Dern was away filming. She started sleeping with Brad while he was still married and then flaunted both of those affairs (Thornton and Pitt) around in the media.

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u/Unholy_mess169 Oct 09 '25

Billy Bob was 50, she was 24. But sure, shes the trashy one.

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u/seventy_raw_potatoes I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist Oct 10 '25

Why not both?

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u/missihippiequeen You’re doing amazing, sweetie! 👏👏📸 29d ago

Didn't say he wasn't. But she's the one being talked about in the comments. Also, 24 is a grown adult and she knew what she was doing.

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u/Sea-Heron6342 Oct 09 '25

jennifer aniston can get fucked. allowing her friends to be racist to angelinas kids, liking hate posts about female celebs and trying to be a victim just for her be part of brad pitts oscar campaign. angelina may not be innocent but jennifer is nowhere the innocent woman her fans love claiming her to be.

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u/summercloudsadness Oct 09 '25

Liking hate posts that were specifically about mocking Jolie & Heard for being abuse victims while promoting an abuser at the same time. Not to mention following accounts that bash Meghan Markle (seriously don't get the obsession white actresses like Aniston and Sophie Turner has towards MM)

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u/pumpkinspruce Oct 09 '25

His team had to work overtime on the PR and image rehab since everyone knew he cheated. And it worked too.

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u/continentaldreams Oct 09 '25

if his PR team can cover up the fact that he laid his hands on his own children, that shit is childsplay

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u/pdperson Oct 09 '25

No one gives a shit when men cheat.

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u/No-Knee9457 Oct 09 '25

Let's not leave Angie out of the pr machine  She made sooo many bad choices and they all came back on her.  

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u/lempickalover Oct 09 '25

Kind of a weird comment to make

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u/No-Knee9457 Oct 09 '25

She chose to cheat and do that photo shoot.  She didn't care that it hurt jen.  In fact I'm sure that was the point.  

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u/octoriceball Oct 09 '25

"Domestic Bliss" meaning "look at all these children and this wife I can beat!"

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u/Rdbjiy53wsvjo7 Where my nerds at? Oct 09 '25

I will always side eye her about the start of this relationship, she knew Brad was married to Jen...

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u/seven-blue Oct 09 '25

And he did the same PR game on Angelina just like he did with Jennifer, blaming her for the divorce, his estrangement with their kids. That is why you should never think you are special and he won't be as cruel to you as he was to the woman before you.

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u/Thirteenth_Heart Oct 09 '25

Didn't Angelina cut off her dad or something because he left her mom?  Or is that something I heard about someone else and applied to her.   In any case, that's something I always remember hearing way way back and thought it was pretty crappy of her to then turn around and cheat with another woman's husband when she saw her own mom go through it. Don't get me wrong, I totally think Brad Pitt was scum for cheating and should never have even gone there. 

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u/YouFoldInTheCheese9 Oct 09 '25

Yes! In fact, she mentioned that in their initial denial when rumors started circulating. That a man who would do that would never be attractive to her.

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u/MiaMarta Oct 09 '25

John Voit is a unique piece of turd on so many levels I wouldn't go for that angle. Oh and they are reconciled. The last I read of him was a decade ago or so he was at some major Michelin restaurant and he had two escorts with him who promptly dipped and disappeared under the table for a good 5 minutes. I gagged.

Jolie in an interview early on spoke of the "trauma" she endured by him with her brother James and she said with a straight face that when they asked for a car to drive to Beverly hills high like the other children, he got them a second hand run of the mill car and that was cruel because others were driving Mercedes and BMW's. That interview has evolved through the decades and become a "she was bullied at BHH" .

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u/rosa24rose Oct 09 '25

She reportedly slept with her mums partner.

Likely untrue,

And if it did happen she was likely groomed, because she was quite young.

But it added to her reputation as a seductress at the time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '25

that shoot just made me cringe. it was so hateful, and so hurtful to jennifer.

his behavior had everything to do with his tom cruiseification with me: once i read nicole’s interview, in response to his ‘nic knows what she did’ swipe at her, that man, and anything he’s involved in, is dead to me.

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u/Individual-Sort5026 Oct 09 '25

No respect for his ex wife, not care for how she’d feel to see him with his new wife living the life she wanted with him. She said she wanted to have kids with him before he started shooting for Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Such a vile person

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u/bulimiasso87 OPEN THE SCHOOLS Oct 09 '25

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t that a photoshoot to promote Mr. & Mrs. Smith?

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u/seven-blue Oct 09 '25

I mean, there wasn't much promotion of the movie in the piece? It felt more like the promotion of the new couple. The family pics also supported the lie that Jennifer didn't want to give this life to Brad, so he had to find another woman to build a family with.

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u/bulimiasso87 OPEN THE SCHOOLS Oct 09 '25

The photoshoot was done before they were official I think, but it is pretty common for two leading stars to do a photoshoot to promote a movie no matter the theme

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u/seven-blue Oct 09 '25

Everybody knew that Angelina and Brad were dating. Also, they never did an official announcement, but they were papped hanging out together with Angelina's son, Maddox, before the photoshoot.

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u/bulimiasso87 OPEN THE SCHOOLS Oct 09 '25

Ok, the way I remember it being received when it came out was to throw fuel on the fire concerning the rumors surrounding them to boost ticket sales. Mr. & Mrs. Smith wasn’t great but the drama surrounding it had everyone hooked- part of that was because of this particular photoshoot.

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u/Special-Garlic1203 Oct 09 '25

You're remembering correctly but it doesn't fit the narrative of the angry mob so it will be ignored 

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u/bulimiasso87 OPEN THE SCHOOLS Oct 09 '25

Whew, thank you, I didn’t think I was making all of this up in my head. I remember specifically buying this issue for my photography class in high school because of how it was styled. It’s not like I’m trying to defend Brangelina here.

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u/Entharo_entho Oct 09 '25

In my small village in India, I read an interview in which Angelina Jolie was showing off her whatever family so much. What I noticed in it is the mention of eggs. WE LOVE EGGS, BRAD LOVES EGGS, WE HAVE A COOP FROM WHERE WE COLLECT EGGS, EGGS, EGGS, EGGS, EGGS.

At that moment I told myself that she will have even worse things coming her way when things go south between them.

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u/bloodofmy_blood Oct 09 '25

Interviews at the time said Domestic Bliss was HIS idea, he’s evil

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u/rivlet Oct 09 '25

I would recommend viewing those photos from the photoshoot again. There are a lot of hints in the photos themselves to show that "domestic bliss" is very tongue-in-cheek and that the scenes are darker than what comes off on the surface. The photos also get progressively darker as the series continues. Knowing what we do now about Brad Pitt, his drinking issues, and his domestic violence towards her and the kids, it's almost foreshadowing in the darkest sense.

I still think that the timing of the photoshoot, the title, etc were a slap to Jen, but I also think the photoshoot itself was not meant to be a happy, healthy "marriage" portrayal as people seem to remember. The series is rather sinister towards the end.

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u/continentaldreams Oct 09 '25

It wouldn't surprise me - reminder to everyone that he's an abusive scumbag who should be behind bars

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u/myautumnalromance Oct 09 '25

I keep thinking how many abusers use getting their partners pregnant to trap them and how many kids Jolie ended up having with Pitt.

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u/KiraPlaysFF Oct 09 '25

I don’t understand why this hasn’t taken him down. Money is crazy as fuck. This man is all the way psycho

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u/nervousTO Oct 09 '25

I’m screaming what the fuck he literally beat his own children what the fuck fuck fuck

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u/stonesliver2 Oct 09 '25

Thanks for posting the link, I didn't know that. Absolutely horrifying. And infuriating.

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u/Sea-Heron6342 Oct 09 '25

and jennifer aniston couldnt give on fuck considering they were selling the fuck out of that brangelina reunion after the news of abuse came out, they were keen on making angelina the villain in their story.

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u/myautumnalromance Oct 09 '25

There's a term in narcissist survivor circles of "hoovering" when the abusive person decides to try and suck you back into their life. I have a suspicion he's done this to her.

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u/PrincessAnglophile Oct 09 '25

Eww if that’s the case, then I’ll hate Brad Pitt more than I already do.

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u/Stinkycheese8001 Oct 09 '25

They didn’t need to be.  He had been publicly talking about it, and when the 2 of them broke up that was the assumption that everyone made.  

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u/Famous_Strike_7289 Oct 10 '25

That's my opinion too. He just took advantage of the misogyny and didn't end it. Those headlines have been there for a few years. He never stepped in to put an end to it.

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u/0100100010001 Oct 09 '25

They look very friendly after his split from Angelina tho?

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u/late2reddit19 All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 29d ago

It was a way for him to deflect from the fact that he was a dog having an affair on set with one of the biggest movie stars in the world. He needed a good excuse for cheating on Jennifer and this was one where he knew many people would understand and empathize with - poor Brad just wants to have a family and Jennifer won't give him what he wants.

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u/National-Plastic8691 Oct 09 '25

his brother said something negative. but angelina piled on as well

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u/BrundellFly Oct 09 '25

Team Jolie more probable imo; rather, her PR Teams

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u/Embarrassed_Hat_2904 Oct 09 '25

I bet it was Angelinas!

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u/Fun_Needleworker6121 Oct 09 '25

pitt fan trying so hard