Adam Sandler & His Wife Send Jennifer Aniston Flowers Every Mother’s Day After The Actress Endured ‘Years And Years’ Of Fertility Struggles

Aug 23, 2023 by apost team

Jennifer Aniston is an American actress who rose to international fame for her role as Rachel Green in the hit series "Friends." Born to two actors, John Aniston and Nancy Dow, she came to acting early in life. While attending her Waldorf school, Aniston fell in love with acting at age 11.

She later enrolled at Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan. After high school, Aniston worked part-time jobs like waitressing and telemarketing to support herself while she performed in off-Broadway productions. She would eventually move to Los Angeles, California, where she soon hit fame. 

In her role as Rachel on "Friends," which aired from 1994 to 2004, Aniston hit the jackpot. She won a Primetime Emmy Award for the show, as well as a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award. Her character was extremely popular and is considered one of the best female roles in television history. 

Aniston has also starred in a number of films and is considered one of Hollywood's highest-paid actresses. Films that star Aniston in a leading role have grossed over $1.6 billion worldwide, with 12 of those films earning over $100 million. Some of her most famous film roles include "Bruce Almighty," "The Break-Up," "Horrible Bosses" and "We're the Millers."

With Aniston's major A-list reputation, it is no surprise her name has been in and out of tabloids and press since she stepped on the scene many years ago. Her highly public marriage to Brad Pitt ended in divorce. However, Aniston has been open about her hardships over the years, including her struggles with infertility. Fortunately, the actress has friends who have given her a shoulder to lean on.

Back in 2000, Pitt and Aniston were married, and their relationship was one of the most talked-about pairings in the media. And like their marriage, their divorce was highly publicized over rumors of Pitt’s infidelity with Angelina Jolie.

Both Pitt and Aniston had been very vocal that the end of their relationship was not as the media portrayed it, but the stories of drama took on a life of their own over the years. Marie Claire reported that the couple was back on speaking terms since Pitt's divorce in 2019 and had since rekindled their friendship.

One rumor was that Aniston and Pitt got divorced because the actress didn’t want children. She cleared that up in 2006 when she told Vanity Fair: “I’ve never in my life said I didn’t want to have children. I did and I do and I will!”

Aniston addressed similar rumors again in 2018 in an interview. The star said:

“The misconceptions are ‘Jen can’t keep a man,’ and ‘Jen refuses to have a baby because she’s selfish and committed to her career.’ Or that I’m sad and heartbroken.”

Aniston continued:

“First, with all due respect, I’m not heartbroken. And second, those are reckless assumptions. No one knows what’s going on behind closed doors. No one considers how sensitive that might be for my partner and me. They don’t know what I’ve been through medically or emotionally.”

The actress also added: “There is a pressure on women to be mothers, and if they are not, then they’re deemed damaged goods. Maybe my purpose on this planet isn’t to procreate. Maybe I have other things I’m supposed to do.”

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Aniston had also penned an essay for HuffPost in 2016 detailing her disdain for the way in which the press would write about her and other female stars and explained how much she abhorred “how much we define a woman’s value based on her marital and maternal status.”

“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,” she wrote. She added, “For the record, I am not pregnant. What I am is fed up.”

Anison also said women “don’t need to be married or mothers to be complete.” She added:

“I’m not in pursuit of motherhood because I feel incomplete in some way, as our celebrity news culture would lead us all to believe. I resent being made to feel 'less than' because my body is changing and/or I had a burger for lunch and was photographed from a weird angle and therefore deemed one of two things: ‘pregnant’ or ‘fat.’”

She furthered:

“Here’s where I come out on this topic: we are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies. That decision is ours and ours alone.”

Speaking with Allure in 2022, Aniston opened up about her struggles with IVF. “I was trying to get pregnant. It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” she said. The actress explained that “nobody” knew.

Jen added:

“All the years and years and years of speculation… It was really hard. I was going through IVF, drinking Chinese teas, you name it. I was throwing everything at it. I would’ve given anything if someone had to said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”

Aniston continued, “I would say my late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard s***, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be.”

However, Aniston said she has “zero regrets” and actually feels “a little relief” because she doesn’t have to go through it anymore.

Thankfully, Aniston also has a strong circle of friends around her that she can lean on during tough times. According to the Wall Street Journal, Aniston’s longtime friend Adam Sandler and his wife Jackie Sandler send her a bouquet of flowers every Mother’s Day to show their love and support for her following her honesty about IVF treatments.

“It was always a little bit difficult for me in relationships, I think, because I really was kind of alone. I don’t know. My parents, watching my family’s relationship, didn’t make me kind of go, ‘Oh, I can’t wait to do that,’” Aniston shared.

The actress continued, “I didn’t like the idea of sacrificing who you were or what you needed, so I didn’t really know how to do that. So it was almost easier to just be kind of solo. So I didn’t have any real training in that give-and-take.”

Despite enduring so many challenges, Aniston still resonates with optimism, and it’s clear that she will always have great friends by her side to help her along the way.

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