Jennifer Aniston opens up about 20-year fertility struggle and IVF

Jennifer Aniston said in a November magazine interview that she kept a private, two decade-long struggle to conceive but felt compelled to speak out after enduring years of public speculation that she had chosen career over family. The 56-year-old actor said the repeated narratives about her not having children because she was "selfish" or a "workaholic" became impossible to ignore and that she had been privately pursuing a family, including undergoing in vitro fertilization, over many years.

"They didn't know my story, or what I'd been going through over the past 20 years to try to pursue a family," Aniston told the publication. "That's not anybody's business." She added that while there are moments when she feels compelled to correct falsehoods, she increasingly lets the fast news cycle take care of untruths because family and friends already know her truth.

Aniston has previously written about the issue and said that a 2016 opinion piece was motivated in part by awareness of other women experiencing the same struggles with fertility treatments. She has also spoken in earlier interviews about trying IVF, saying she had tried many measures and regretted not having frozen eggs...