
It sounds like she was treated pretty poorly when it came to Plan B too. Also people forget he had addiction issues with her too. I'll always remember him saying he only got sober when he had kids. Think about that. It wasn't Jennifer and their potential family. That always stood out to me. |
Celebrities are always able to become parents, either with a partner or alone. I think Jennifer preferred the idea of becoming a mother with a stable partner, and she obviously knew that Brad wasn't that man, even before he cheated on her. I'm sure she considered her options after their relationship ended, both with Theroux and by herself, and she clearly decided that it's not what she wanted. She seems like a happy woman, or at least a satisfied one. |
Same. I whole wholeheartedly believe she knew deep down there was issues with him that weren't going to be fixed overnight. I think that's why there was a period of time she kept picking projects and he was allegedly mad about it. You can't be a good parent when your knee deep in addiction and it's causing depression. |
I’m around that age and I remember thinking Brad made a huge mistake when he left Jen for Angelina. I was never a big fan of Brad, but I thought he and Jen were a great couple. I thought Angelina was nuts and never thought she was compatible with Brad. I thought their relationship would badly. It took much longer than I thought, but their relationship was eventually spectacularly imploded. |
I felt sorry for Jennifer. Not so much because her and Brad’s marriage ended, because it was obvious they were having problems. I felt sorry for her because her husband cheated on her so publicly with someone who had a reputation for sleeping with other women’s husbands. Then Angelina and Brad flaunted their relationship so soon after Brad and Jen’s marriage ended, and they both kept making digs at Jen in the press. Jen was being portrayed in the media as a lonely woman who couldn’t keep a man and a woman who deserved to lose her husband because she wouldn’t have his baby. The tabloid narrative was so sexist. |
Agreed. I think it’s important to remember that Pitt and Jolie are both horrible narcissistic human beings. They fully deserve ending up in this misery they created. But the poor kids. |
And he left her with little options for having kids. She was in her mid-30’s, crushed by his betrayal which probably prevented her emotionally from committing to a real and true relationship. While I don’t like him, O like Jolie a lot less. She’s crazy, and this is who he chose to have kids with? Deserves what he gets, except the Oscar. |
She wanted to wait to start having kids. That's not on Brad. |
^^I remember reading in Vanity Fair, I believe, that a mutual friend of theirs said that having a baby was never a priority for Brad. It was an "abstract desire" for him but for Jen it was much more immediate.
Also there were reports that she was struggling with infertility. I was too at the time which is why I remember so much about their behavior and words to the media after the split: Posing in W magazine as a happy family with kids days after the split announcement; Jolie saying to some magazine, Brad wanted to have children but "this was not happening for him." Brad appearing on Oprah and saying that Jolie "was a good egg." All of this is nothing short of cruel. And that's on both Jolie and Pitt. |
I am still not going to put her waiting into her mid/late 30s on brad. She wanted to focus on her career some and finish up friends. It was a smart choice but was risky because of her age. I do remember how Brad leaned into having kids in interviews and thinking it was odd when it came out it wasn't the truth. Those interviews is what started the whole Jen is a workaholic narrative because people felt sorry for him. I am not defending their actions but it wasn't his fault Jen waited. |
I don’t know how to link, but there were two articles I am aware of about this. (1) Her first post-split article in which the nursery is discussed and she says she wanted kids and starts crying when the interviewer asks about Angelina Jolie being pregnant. (2) Then more recently an interview where she admits she tried for years to have kids and couldn’t, and talks about how hard it was to see tabloids writing she was pregnant during all of that. Women don’t need to procreate to be valuable human beings, but it’s incorrect to say Jennifer Aniston didn’t want children. |
+1 and having experienced a toxic single mother, she didn’t want to risk that dynamic herself. Wanted children in the context of a stable relationship, and it didn’t work out for her. |
It is a well-known fact that Jen could not have a kid at that time. I'm not sure if she tried after.
She was open about it, that those lies in the news were just lies; she could not have the kid, and she wanted a kid. Like on this forum, the press tore her down with lies, so many of you are tearing another woman down in blatant lies. It was not enough for you to tear down Jolie here; you had to get Jen into a nasty woman category, too. |
Apart from the time he got drunk and appears to have had a physical altercation with one of them… The apart is doing a lot of work in that thought |
She said she tried IVF. I believe she tried several times over the years. Not sure why she didn’t try surrogacy. |