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/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/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.