Jennifer Aniston reveals she underwent IVF to get pregnant as she reflects on fertility struggles

Jennifer Aniston has spoken candidly about her experience with in vitro fertilisation and the public pressure she faced over whether she was going to have children.

The actor, 53, opened up about her attempts to get pregnant while reflecting on the “really hard sh*t” she went through in her “late 30s, 40s” during an interview with Allure.

“I would say my late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard sh*t, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be,” she said. “That’s why I have such gratitude for all those sh**ty 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.”

Aniston then went on to reveal that she was referring to her experience undergoing IVF, with the actor acknowledging that it was a “challenging road” trying to get pregnant.

“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” she said.

According to the Golden Globe winner, who has spoken previously about the pressures placed on women to have children, the experience was even more difficult because of the speculation from the media and the public about whether she was going to become a mother.

“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,” she said. “I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me: ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favour.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”

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