Jennifer Aniston has become almost as famous for not having children as she has for her acting career. She has spoken at length about her struggles to conceive and not being able to, but in a new interview with Wall Street Journal Magazine, she shared a sweet story about how her friend, actor Adam Sandler, honors her attempts at motherhood.
In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, Aniston revealed that Sandler and his wife, Jackie, send her flowers every year on Mother’s Day to show her love and support.
Aniston and Sandler met when they were in their 20s and have stayed friends ever since. They have gone on to even work together in the past decade or so, co-starring in films like Just Go With It.
Last year, the actress got candid about her fertility struggles and attempts at motherhood in an interview with Allure.
“I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” she said. “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.”
“I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed,” Aniston, who is now in her 50s, said.
When her and Brad Pitt’s marriage ended in 2005, many media outlets speculated that a major factor in their divorce was Aniston being unable to have children.
“I just cared about my career. And God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child,” she said in the Allure interview. “And the reason my husband left me, why we broke up and ended our marriage, was because I wouldn’t give him a kid. It was absolute lies. I don’t have anything to hide at this point.”
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She told The Wall Street Journal, “It was always a little bit difficult for me in relationships, I think, because I really was kind of alone. I don’t know. My parents, watching my family’s relationship, didn’t make me kind of go, ‘Oh, I can’t wait to do that.'”
“I didn’t like the idea of sacrificing who you were or what you needed, so I didn’t really know how to do that. So it was almost easier to just be kind of solo. So I didn’t have any real training in that give-and-take,” she added.