Did Jennifer Aniston try IVF to conceive?

Yes, she desperately tried to conceive in her 30s and 40s and even underwent IVF.

“I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it,” she said.

“I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”

“I have zero regrets,” Aniston said when she was 53.

She also revealed that being under constant scrutiny of the media made it really hard.

Even though she’s made peace with it now, the baby rumors hurt Aniston in the past. The pain of those ‘Baby Bump’ headlines was intensified by “the narrative that I was just selfish. I just cared about my career.” she said.

“God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child. And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn’t give him a kid. It was absolute lies. I don’t have anything to hide at this point.”

Aniston spent years protecting her IVF story but now that she's older, she feels a little relived now that the uncertainty is over.

She also addressed social media trolls, saying, “It’s like, ‘You have no clue what’s going with me personally, medically, why I can’t … can I have kids?’ They don’t know anything, and it was really hurtful and just nasty,”

However, Aniston takes it all in her stride saying that going through all that hard shit in her late 30s and 40s helped her evolve. "If it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be,” she said.

Jennifer Aniston does not normally share too much of her personal life but her stardom has always attracted media attention and the advent of social media further made it worse.

“It’s like, ‘You have no clue what’s going with me personally, medically, why I can’t … can I have kids?’ They don’t know anything, and it was really hurtful and just nasty,” she said in an interview.

She also addressed social media trolls, saying that “It’s almost like the media handed over the sword to any Joe Schmo sitting behind a computer screen to be a troll or whatever they call them and bully people in comment sections. So, it’s just sort of changed hands in a way. And I don’t know why there’s such a cruel streak in society. I often wonder what they get off on.”

Protecting her story

“I’ve spent so many years protecting my story about IVF. I’m so protective of these parts because I feel like there’s so little that I get to keep to myself," she said. Now that she’s older and that phase of uncertainty is over, she feels “a little relief.”

It is “liberating”, because “there is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe’. I don’t have to think about that anymore,” she said.

Now there’s nothing to hide and she doesn’t feel incomplete without being a mother.

“The [world] creates narratives that aren’t true, so I might as well tell the truth. I feel like I’m coming out of hibernation," she said. “I don’t have anything to hide.”