Jennifer Aniston has been open about her decades-long struggle with fertility, speaking publicly about her 20-year journey in recent years to help others going through similar situations.

“There’s a point where it’s, like, out of my control,” the Friends actress recalled this week during an episode of Dax Shepard’s podcast, Armchair Expert. “There’s literally nothing I can do about it. It just wasn’t in the plan, whatever the plan was.

Jennifer Aniston | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard – YouTube

“People say, ‘But you can adopt,’” she added of her options, before admitting: “[but] I don’t want to adopt. I want my own DNA in a little person. That’s the only way, selfish or not, whatever that is, I’ve wanted it.

“It’s very emotional, especially when they say ‘that’s it,’” she later reflected. “Because there is a weird moment when that happens.”

Now 56, Aniston reveals that she has come to terms with not having children, telling host Dax Shepard: “I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.’ I don’t have to think about that anymore.”

Jennifer Aniston has found peace in not having children. #armchairexpert #podcast #interview – YouTube

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Aniston has previously spoken out about the “false narrative” around her relationship with motherhood, setting the record straight about her fertility struggles in 2022.

“They didn’t know my story, or what I’d been going through over the past 20 years to try to pursue a family, because I don’t go out there and tell them my medical woes,” she added in a recent interview for Harper’s Bazaar. “That’s not anybody’s business. But there comes a point when you can’t not hear it – the narrative about how I won’t have a baby, won’t have a family, because I’m selfish, a workaholic. It does affect me – I’m just a human being. We’re all human beings.”