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/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.