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Jennifer Aniston talks about in vitro fertilization and fertility issues

Jennifer Aniston has been trying to get pregnant for many years: “That of pregnancy was a very challenging road for me,” says the actress in the December cover story from Allure. Aniston shared the challenges she faced while trying to have a baby, including intense media scrutiny and cycles of assisted fertilization failed.

Most people don’t have to face the kind of painful speculation Aniston has faced, but fertility issues are a reality many women are confronted with today; according to the data of Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, in vitro fertilization (IVF) success rates are 25.1% for mothers aged 38 to 40 and 12.7% for those aged 41 to 42.

“Between the ages of 30 and 40, I had a really hard time and, if it weren’t for that, I would never have become the person I am today,” says Aniston, then explaining: “I was trying to get pregnant.”

Remember the many (many) years that Aniston was the subject of a “bump watch” by the tabloids? “I had tried in vitro fertilization, I was drinking Chinese tea, I was trying everything. And I would give anything for having someone, at the time, to tell me: “Freeze your eggs, do yourself a favor.” But it didn’t, so I’m here today. And the train has passed ».

“I have no regrets,” adds Aniston. She that she is now 53 years old and she explains indeed that she feels “a little relief because there is no longer any doubt, I don’t have to think about it anymore”.

But there has certainly been some pain in the past. To the suffering generated by the headlines “Does Jen have a baby bump? “ was added «the story that I was just an egoist», explains the actress, «that I was only interested in career. And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I didn’t want to give him a child. All absolute lies ». Aniston’s five-year marriage to actor Brad Pitt ended in 2005; from 2011 to 2018 she was with Justin Theroux (they got married in 2015).

As the writer writes Danielle Pergament in the cover story, “We all felt empowered to learn about the events inside her womb. We consumed those stocks, then threw them in the trash and went back to our lives. But she couldn’t. ‘

Aniston’s frustration led her, in 2016, to write an editorial for theHuffington Postwhere she criticized the media for their fixation on her reproductive status and their treatment of women in general: “I told myself I had to write it because it was irritating and I couldn’t ignore it allowing it to continue to hurt.”

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Source: Vanity Fair

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