Jennifer Aniston talked about how the pregnancy rumors affected her and why she left the recording of the Friends reunion
The actress opened up about a very sad moment in her life in which speculation about her possible motherhood hurt her deeply; "It was painful and unpleasant," he declared.
Jennifer Aniston referred to the constant pregnancy rumors that she echoed in recent decades and described them as "painful and unpleasant." In dialogue with The Hollywood Reporter, the publication that has the 52-year-old actress on the cover of its latest issue, the former Friends spoke about that painful moment in her life, when speculation suggested that she had decided to prioritize her career over him. have children and start a family with her first husband, Brad Pitt, with whom she was married from 2000 to 2005. Ten years later, she married Justin Theroux, whom she divorced in 2017, a period in which there was also talk of a potential pregnancy.
"People certainly project on you and all that, but my job is to say, 'Listen, I'll show you what I'm capable of and you decided if you want to subscribe,'" Aniston said of how her private life overshadowed her career. . "Then you disappear as much as you can, you have fun, you take on these strange roles, you don't care about anything, you have fun, you remember that you have a wonderful group of friends and your life is blessed and you do the best you can," said the actress and He remembered how he passed through those rumors.
"I used to take it all very personally: the pregnancy rumors and the assumption that, 'Oh, she chose the career over the boys,'" Aniston continued. “It's like… you have no idea what is happening to me personally, medically, why can't I… can I have children? They don't know anything, and it was really painful and unpleasant, ”she expanded her personal account in one of her stories.
Furthermore, she asked herself sarcastically: “Am I still going to have twins?”, In clear allusion to the infinity of covers of publications that speculated on a pregnancy. "Am I still going to be a mother at 52?" Added Aniston, who also made a distinction by stating that her male colleagues are not asked the same questions as women.
In addition, she asked herself sarcastically: "Am I still going to have twins?", In clear allusion to the infinity of covers of publications that speculated on a pregnancy. "Am I still going to be a mother at 52?" Added Aniston, who also made a distinction by stating that her male colleagues are not asked the same questions as women.
“Men can marry as many times as they want, they can marry young women in their twenties or thirties; women are not allowed. It's as if the media has given the reins to anyone sitting behind a computer and given them the power to be a troll. I don't know why there is so much cruelty in our society. The gossip magazines did it then, ordinary people do it now, "remarked the actress who rose to fame with Friends and who consolidated her television prestige in recent years with the Apple TV + series, The Morning Show, which earned her an Emmy nomination and a SAG award.
The Friends reunion: "I had to leave filming several times"
In the same interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Aniston recalled how it was the filming of the Friends special, which premiered on June 29 on HBO Max, and revealed that she had to leave the filming "on numerous occasions" because of how it transported her to other times. .
Recall that the meeting of the protagonists of the sitcom, Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer began with an entry of the protagonists to the studio where they worked for so many years, something that mobilized them a lot.
“You'd get there and think, 'Oh sure, I didn't take into account what was happening to me the last time I was in this place,'” explained the actress, who was in a crisis with Pitt when Friends pulled down the blind. . “Thinking all that took me by surprise because I was wondering:‘ Hello last, do you remember me? Do you remember how everything sucked? You thought you had a life in which everything was going to be beautiful but then you went through the hardest moment of your life, '"reflected Aniston, without providing too many details.
“The time travel was hard, so I had to leave the set in certain situations, because it stirred personal situations, expectations that I had and that changed form, so to speak. That threw me off because we all have an idea for our future and things can change overnight, but it's still a blessing to be able to see the ups and downs of life. If all that had not happened to me, I would not be the woman I am, "she concluded.
