Jennifer Aniston and the trauma of motherhood; the actress confesses why she has not had children

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I am not

.

bluntly responded

six years ago to those who continuously speculated about her alleged maternity. The years passed and she, turning 40, faced almost daily the public

about the possibility that she was pregnant or, failing that, why it wasn't.

A situation that made the actress explode on some occasions;

the most

, when she sent an open letter to the media after the publication of some photos in which she seemed to have a little more

than usual.

A pressure she couldn't bear.

"I'm sick of the

as a sport and the body shaming that occurs daily under the guise of journalism," the actress told the Huffington Post.

And that he has carried on his shoulders for years.

Because then she, to protect herself from her, she avoided the subject and claimed her right to decide whether or not she wanted to have children, which on many occasions the actress appeared as a standard-

for those women who decided not to be mothers of their own free will. .

"If I am some sort of symbol to some people, then I am an example of the lens through which we as a society view our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, friends and colleagues. The

and scrutiny we put on on women are absurd and disturbing. The way I am portrayed by the media is simply a reflection of how

in general, measured through the standards of a deformed beauty", he pointed out then about the excessive

that is exerted on the female body.

Why Jennifer Aniston has not had children

However, now, turned 53,

has revealed the real reasons why she has not had children.

Far from the news that years ago she was branded as selfish for prioritizing her

and as guilty of the breakup of her marriage to

for refusing to have the children and the family that he claimed, the

has been honest: she has not been birth mother because she couldn't, no matter how hard she tried.

"That story that I was

and only cared about my

... God forbid a woman be

and not have a child," he vented.

"To say that

and I broke up and ended our marriage because she did not give him a child was an absolute

. At this point I have nothing to hide, "she says in an interview in Allure magazine.

While being accused of not wanting to be a mother, she tried with all her might, which increased her

and pain.

"All those years and years of speculation were really difficult. I was undergoing

, drinking Chinese teas, whatever... she was

everything," she said.

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Freeze the eggs

As she says in the interview,

has spent her whole life wanting and trying to be a mother, undergoing various

in the two

she has had.

An issue that she has always hidden to protect her

from her.

Now, when her age forces her to close that chapter of her life, she has decided to tell it and even advances that she could write her story in a book.

"I've spent years protecting my

she says, saying it was one of the few things she could keep to herself.

Now he has decided to take the plunge.

"I have nothing to hide," she says.

"I feel like I'm coming out of

. The world creates

that aren't true, so I have to tell the truth well."

And this is that her problems to be a mother and the constant public scrutiny of the situation have caused her more than one

.

That's why she feels

: "The ship has sailed, I don't have to think about it anymore", she confesses with

.

"I would have given anything because someone had warned me: '

your eggs. Do yourself a favor.' You just don't think about it, so here I am," she says.

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