Overview
- Aniston says she declined adoption because she wanted “my own DNA in a little person,” calling the desire “selfish or not.”
- She describes feeling “so peaceful” about not becoming a parent, noting the outcome was beyond her control and acknowledging emotional moments when doctors said “that’s it.”
- In a 2022 Allure interview, she detailed years of IVF and said she wished she had been advised to freeze her eggs earlier.
- She has pushed back on narratives that she chose career over family, telling Harper’s Bazaar UK that people didn’t know about two decades of efforts to pursue a family.
- The comments were recorded for a Wondery+ early-access episode of Armchair Expert that is slated for wide release on October 20.