Why did Jennifer Aniston never want to adopt?

Jennifer Aniston She says she never wanted to adopt children amid her struggle with infertility.

Aniston, 56, revealed her feelings about adoption during a Wondery+ early access episode of “Chair expertThe podcast is scheduled to be released widely on Monday, October 20.

“When people say, ‘But you can adopt,’ I don’t want to adopt.” Morning show The star told the hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Badmanper the people. “I want my DNA in a little person. This is the only way, selfish or not, whatever it is, I wanted it.”

Aniston has previously spoken about her IVF experience, saying: attractiveness In 2022, “All the years and years and years of speculation…. It was really hard. I was doing IVF, drinking Chinese tea, you name it. I was doing the best I could at it.”

She added at the time: “I would have given anything if someone had told me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.'” You just don’t think about it. So here I am today. “The ship has sailed.”

When Badman, 38, said she couldn’t decide if she wanted kids — noting that “maybe it’s okay that I don’t want to” — she wondered if Aniston had found “peace” in knowing her answer to that question.

“It’s very peaceful,” Aniston replied. “But I will say there comes a point where it’s out of my control. There’s nothing I can do about it.”

the friends Alum who is dating a life coach Jim CurtisShe said there were times when she met a man who “could have had some good kids.” But this feeling “will pass in three seconds.”

Regarding parenting, she explained: “It wasn’t in the plan, whatever the plan was,” revealing that “it’s very emotional, especially in the moment when they say ‘this is it’, because there’s a weird moment when that happens.”

In a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK,Aniston Shut down speculation About her private life, specifically the narrative about her status as a famous woman without children.

“They don’t know my story, or what I’ve been through over the last 20 years to try to start a family, because I don’t go out there and tell them my medical struggles,” Aniston said. “It’s none of anyone’s business. But there comes a moment when you can’t not hear it — the narrative about I’ll never have a baby, I’ll never have a family, because I’m selfish, I’m a workaholic.”

She noted that the comment was still reaching her.

“I’m just a human being,” she explained. “We’re all human. That’s why I thought,”what the hell?'”