Jennifer Aniston tried to get pregnant for many years.

Remember the many (many) years that Aniston was the subject of a tabloid “bump watch”?

“I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it.

Jennifer Aniston

I was throwing everything at it,” she says.

“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, now 53, tells writerDanielle Pergament.

“I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, ‘Can I?

I dont have to think about that anymore.”

But there was certainly pain in the past.

The hurt of the “Does Jen Have a Baby Bump?”

headlines was compounded by “the narrative that I was just selfish,” says Aniston.

“I just cared about my career.

And God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child.

It was absolute lies.

I don’t have anything to hide at this point.”

We consumed those headlines, then dropped them in the trash and got back to our lives.

But she couldn’t."

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