, where Aniston said, “No one knows what’s going on behind closed doors. No one considers how sensitive that might be for my partner and me,” she said of the “reckless” assumptions being made. “They don’t know what I’ve been through medically or emotionally. There is pressure on women to be mothers, and if they are not, then they’re deemed damaged goods.” “I used to take it all very personally — the pregnancy rumors and the whole ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption.
Even her personal life was affected by the media’s collective questioning. Her loved ones would see the tabloids and think Aniston was actually pregnant. “Sometimes you can’t help family members or people sending stuff over going, ‘What is this? You’re having a baby? Are you getting married?’” in June 2021.
Imagine if your options were either a.) sharing your deepest desires and most complicated, emotional health struggles with the world, or b.) having everyone attack you for being “selfish” because you didn’t fit the narrow narrative of what society deems appropriate for women — simply because you weren’t a mother. For years, Aniston was lambasted by the press and society for not having kids, while she was actively doing everything she could to get pregnant.