 she spent undergoing IVF.Credit: Getty Samantha Brick has also spoken openly about her struggles with IVFCredit: Rex Features How you feel about my revelations is on you — not me. Which is why I poured myself a large glass of fizz on Wednesday evening when I read that Jennifer Aniston had dropped this year's truth bomb. She unexpectedly opened up about the years (and years) she spent undergoing IVF. The interview was all over my social media feeds and shared with me via lots (and lots) of well-meaning girlfriends. But most of them do not know what a horror show fertility treatment is — especially when it doesn't work. So thank you Jen, for doing the inter-view alongside a smokin' hot photoshoot in Chanel's iconic barely-there bikini. She looked sensational and 'all woman'. And I for one understood perfectly well the juxtaposition here. When you can't have kids you feel 'less than', as a woman. Jen redefines the phrase 'total goddess' in those images. That's why I totally get that this felt the right time for her to decide to put to bed the decades of speculation over why she never had a baby. We've all read the diatribe and the bilge. Did she put her career first? Was she far too preoccupied with her figure? Did she covet an Oscar over a baby? The words written about Jen — and her womb — have been monumentally crass, intrusive and down-right outrageous. I wonder how all of those bitchy-witchy critics feel now? The thousands and thou-sands of smugly worded columns and oh-so-helpful advice they brewed up to speculate over why-oh-why Jen isn't a mum. The sheer (wo)man hours they dispensed picking her fertility apart was always a sight to behold among the sisterhood. Are they ashamed? I hope so. Confession, I'm not a Friends fan so I never understood the adulation for Jen's hair, Jen's love life and the Camp Jen v Camp Angelina c){kind=link}
WHO hates a secret? I know I do.
I’m that woman who talks frankly and openly.
How you feel about my revelations is on you – not me.
Which is why I poured myself a large glass of fizz on Wednesday evening when I read that Jennifer Aniston had dropped this year’s truth bomb.
She unexpectedly opened up about the years (and years) she spent undergoing IVF.