No, Jennifer Aniston didn't sacrifice her desire to have children for her Hollywood career.
After decades of speculation that fame and money are more important to the actress than family, the fifty-three-year-old has now reported on desperate attempts to become a mother.
"I've tried artificial insemination, drank Chinese tea and done everything else you can think of.
I would have given anything if someone told me to freeze some eggs.
I just didn't think of it, and today the train left," Aniston told Allure.
As the Californian suggested to the women's magazine, she started thinking about pregnancy in her 30s.
She left it open whether her first husband Brad Pitt was also involved in family planning at the time.
Aniston, who starred as Rachel Green in the television series "Friends" from 1994 to 2004 and later became a major earner in the American entertainment industry with films such as "Marley & Me" and "My Fictitious Wife", had left in 2005 Pitt separated.
The divorce is said to have preceded a romance between the Oscar winner and actress Angelina Jolie, whom he later married.
As Aniston now admitted, the rumors that Pitt broke up with her because she didn't want children deeply affected her.
"It was all a lie," she accused the American gossip press.
Aniston is now a close friend of Pitt, who has been at odds with Jolie for years over adoptive children Maddox, Pax and Zahara and biological offspring Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.
After divorcing her second husband Justin Theroux, the Golden Globe winner lives alone but happily in the posh enclave of Bel-Air in Los Angeles.
But she doesn't want to miss the "shitty things" she experienced in her late 30s and 40s.
"Otherwise I would have remained this anxious, nervous person who didn't know who he was," Aniston admitted.