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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jen didn’t want kids. She wanted to advance her career by doing films and endorsements.

Brad wanted kids. That was Angie’s appeal. Plus, Angie was deep and dedicated to charity. Jen does charity, but isn’t very involved.

I don’t think Jen milked the failed relationship to boost her career. I do think her team curated a victim narrative that included the baby/is she pregnant/is she struggling with fertility issues that kept her on the cover of magazines. [/quote]

[b]... I don't think having kids was Angelina's appeal.[/b] It might be that family is what kept them together so long.[/quote]

I don't understand people that don't see this. They got together and ended up with six kids![/quote]

Obviously they HAD lots of kids together. But it seems clear that what would attract a person to Angelina Jolie is that she was phenomenally hot and basically sexy in a way that no one else in the world at that time could come close to touching. She was WEIRD hot. And I would imagine that whatever instigated that relationship has more to do with her overpowering sexual attraction than anything to do with them building a family down the line.

Who in the world could or would have turned down Angelina back in the Mr and Mrs Smith days? I'm a straight woman and I would have ditched my husband in five seconds if she's set her sights on me. And no not because we decided we wanted a family together.

I think their kids are why they stayed together so long. I don't think it's why they got together. [b]Also that weirdly blames Aniston for the breakup - like "oh look at you barren waste of a uterus, you couldn't keep Brad Pitt because someone who wanted to procreate provided a soft shoulder)[/b][/quote]

I think that it was both. Not disregarding the extreme hotness of 2000s angie. They didn't just get together and have smoking hot sex, they got together and immediately started building a family.

Re the bolded I do not think that at all. To have kids or to not have kids is an enormously fraught issue in many marriages. If she didn't want kids then she is not a barren waste of a uterus, she just didn't want kids! Which is fine! But I have yet to see a marriage work when they had diametrically opposed desires about having kids. It also doesn't excuse him cheating or the way it went down. Just makes me think the marriage was already doomed if that was an issue. [/quote]

Sure, but what if it's that she struggled with infertility? He said in an interview (Diane Sawyer) accounts of her denying him kids were BS, and she's alluded to having fertility problems when she was with Theroux.[/quote]

DP but she married Theroux when she was 41.  Fertility issues at 41 doesn't mean that fertility issues are why she didn't have kids in her 30s.  And she could have used a surrogate or adopted if she wanted kids - she's super rich.  It's fine not to want kids but there's something strange about Aniston where the people who take up for her want her to be all things at all times - living her best single life on the beach in Mexico not thinking about Pitt at all but still somehow she's more motherly than Jolie because even though she doesn't have kids she must obviously have wanted them because she's so girl-next-door and sweet?  It's weird.

Pitt & Aniston gave an interview during their marriage where they said they don't think people are hardwired to be with one person forever and that they'd only be together as long as it was fun (or as long as they were growing in the same direction?  Something like that).  I'd forgotten about it but when Oprah's 20th Anniversary thing came out I saw it again and it struck me as insane that she made a cottage industry out of being devastated by divorce after having that on the record.  [/quote]

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