Tonya Russell: Jennifer Aniston’s IVF revelation is a reminder that those pushing their agenda of motherhood on someone else might not just be minimizing someone’s life choices, but pressing on one of the most painful spots in their souls. - NBCNewsTHINK
host “Saturday Night Live” back in 2004. In one sketch, she poked fun at the media obsession over whether she was going to have a baby by playing a photographer on a red carpet demanding to know when someone was going to get pregnant. I never forgot this clip, since it suggested that she could make light of theI didn’t expect that I would one day be in that position myself, however — a childless 30-something dodging comments about when I’d reproduce.
In the interview, Aniston divulged that all of the speculation was “really hard,” yet that in the midst of it, she kept trying to get pregnant. “I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it.” She said that in the end, she’s come to terms with her childlessness, knowing that “the ship has sailed.”
If you follow any in vitro fertilization or childless-not-by-choice communities on social media, you’ll see that people stop trying for different reasons. Some can’t afford to keep going through fertility treatments; for others it’s taken too heavy a toll on their bodies and psyches. Sometimes health concerns arise that make it impossible to conceive. Others find that they actually prefer to keep their lives as they are.
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