--- title: Jennifer Aniston Is Not a 'Sad, Childless Human' description: Jennifer Aniston spoke to Marie Claire about her career, fame and the special scrutiny that childless women face. canonical: https://time.com/4561109/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband-career/ author: Megan Lasher article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-07T19:59:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:47.615Z og:title: Jennifer Aniston Is Just Fine Without Kids, Thanks og:description: 'Why are we only looking at women through this particular lens?' og:url: https://time.com/4561109/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband-career/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1bde5cee1650e394/6988ad5c8e06014659468278/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2570 og:image:height: 1446 og:image:alt: Giffoni Film Festival 2016 - Day 9 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jennifer Aniston Is Just Fine Without Kids, Thanks twitter:description: 'Why are we only looking at women through this particular lens?' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1bde5cee1650e394/6988ad5c8e06014659468278/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jennifer Aniston Is Just Fine Without Kids, Thanks > Sponsored content. 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Vittorio Zunino Celotto—Getty Images for Giffoni Film Fe by [Megan Lasher](https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/) ## Megan Lasher Nov 7, 2016 7:59 PM UTC Earlier this year, Jennifer Aniston wrote [a piece for the Huffington Post on not wanting children.](http://motto.time.com/4404853/jennifer-aniston-essay-sexism/) “For the record, I am _not_ pregnant. What I am is _fed up,”_ [the star wrote](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/for-the-record%5Fus%5F57855586e4b03fc3ee4e626f). Now, she’s elaborating on that sentiment. “My marital status has been shamed; my divorce status was shamed; my lack of a mate had been shamed; my nipples have been shamed,” Aniston [told _Marie Claire_ in their December issue](http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a23392/jennifer-aniston-december-2016-cover/). “It’s like, _Why are we only looking at women through this particular lens of picking us apart? Why are we listening to it?_ I just thought: _I have worked too hard in this life and this career to be whittled down to a sad, childless human_.” In the Huffington Post piece, Aniston said she was sick of the rhetoric around motherhood. “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,” she wrote. “But 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.” In the _Marie Claire_ interview, Aniston further proved her exemplary outlook on life and relationships by commenting on why husband Justin Theroux is the one for her. “All I know is that I feel completely seen, and adored, in no matter what state,” she said_. “_There’s no part of me that I don’t feel comfortable showing, exposing. And it brings forth the best part of myself, because I care about him so much. And he’s such a good person. It hurts me to think of anything hurting him.” Read the full interview at [MarieClaire.com](http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a23392/jennifer-aniston-december-2016-cover/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4561109/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband-career/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4561109/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband-career/"},"headline":"Jennifer Aniston Is Just Fine Without Kids, Thanks","datePublished":"2016-11-07T19:59:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:47.615Z","description":"'Why are we only looking at women through this particular lens?'","url":"https://time.com/4561109/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband-career/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1bde5cee1650e394/6988ad5c8e06014659468278/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Lasher","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-lasher/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1bde5cee1650e394/6988ad5c8e06014659468278/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Giffoni Film Festival 2016 - Day 9","caption":"Jennifer Aniston attends the Giffoni Film Festival Day 9 photocall on July 23, 2016 in Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy.","creditText":"Vittorio Zunino Celotto—Getty Images for Giffoni Film Fe","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4561109/jennifer-aniston-kids-husband-career/","name":"Jennifer Aniston Is Just Fine Without Kids, Thanks"}}]}] ```