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“I have grown tired of being part of this narrative. Yes, I may become a mother some day, and since I’m laying it all out there, if I ever do, I will be the first to let you know.”
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Actor, producer and director Jennifer Aniston has again broken her silence on the decades-long speculation surrounding whether or not she’s pregnant, this time in an eloquent and empathetic essay published on the Huffington Post.

Entitled For The Record, Aniston begins by addressing head-on the inexhaustible, perennial rumours concerning the occupancy of her womb.

“For the record, I am not pregnant,” writes Aniston. “What I am is fed up.

“I’m fed up with the sport-like scrutiny and body shaming that occurs daily under the guise of ‘journalism,’ the ‘First Amendment’ and ‘celebrity news.'”
Aniston, who only weeks ago was the unwilling subject of another godawful high profile pregnancy fabrication, then continues to dissect the “absurd and disturbing” “objectification and scrutiny we put women through” from the unique vantage point of someone whose life has become “a reflection of how we see and portray women in general, measured against some warped standard of beauty.”

“This past month in particular has illuminated for me how much we define a woman’s value based on her marital and maternal status,” writes Aniston, whose movements between car services and SoHo restaurants are documented exhaustively every day. “The sheer amount of resources being spent right now by press trying to simply uncover whether or not I am pregnant (for the bajillionth time… but who’s counting) points to the perpetuation of this notion that women are somehow incomplete, unsuccessful, or unhappy if they’re not married with children.”

After imploring women to “determine our own ‘happily ever after'”, Aniston concludes by revealing that she has “grown tired of being part of this narrative,” and that while “Yes, I may become a mother some day… if I ever do, I will be the first to let you know,” before suggesting that anyone else who feels the same way simply stop “buying the bullshit”. It’s that easy.

You can read Aniston’s essay in full here.

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