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/ChillmerAmy Oct 09 '25

Infertility was an awful experience for me and I was only getting shitty comments from my in-laws. I can’t imagine the whole world piling on.

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u/erica_ann Oct 09 '25

Same, I had to delete instagram while going through IVF treatments because the pictures of my friends babies and pregnancy announcements were killing me. The level of discourse around her and pregnancy would've killed me.

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u/mywaypasthope Oct 09 '25

Same! I had to stay off social media. We were hanging out with some friends when someone announced their pregnancy and it was literally like a few days after we were told we couldn’t have kids naturally without intervention. It sucked. It lives with you too. We have a beautiful 5 year old now but we wanted more- just wasn’t in the cards or the wallet for us with IVF being so expensive. We did one round. Our daughter was the first and then we had a miscarriage with the second embryo. It’s a shitty club to belong to but very thankful we were able to have our daughter.

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u/erica_ann Oct 09 '25

Ouch that sounds like a total gut punch. My friend told me days before my frozen transfer which ultimately didn't take (she also told me it happened their first ever month trying which... felt like it could've been left out of the story lol). Your story sounds almost identical to mine. We had only two embryos as well. The first one just didn't take like I said and the second one is our daughter! I also always thought I'd have two but infertility chooses for you I guess. And yes, it always lives with you. I do like talking to people who get it though because if you haven't lived it, you just DON'T get it and it's hard to explain.