For the first time in her life, Friends star Jennifer Aniston has opened up about a deeply personal chapter in her life. In a cover story published in Allure on November 9, the actor revealed that "she was trying to get pregnant" many years back and underwent in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and several fertility attempts. The actress also revealed that reports about her divorce from Brad Pitt because of her not wanting to have kids was 'absolute lies'. 

“I would say my late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard s**t, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be. That’s why I have such gratitude for all those s**tty things. Otherwise, I would’ve been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were. And now, I don’t f**king care. I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” Jennifer told Allure in a recent interview.

Adding that she did try to get pregnant, but couldn’t, the actor stated, “All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. 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.”

Adding salt to the wounds were the media headlines claiming she wanted to focus on herself and her career, which is why she did not want to have kids: “The narrative that I was just selfish, (that) I just cared about my career. And 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.”