Jennifer Aniston Calls Pressure to Have a Baby 'Unfair'

Jennifer Aniston poses for Allure's January issue. Photo: Allure

Booming career? Happy engagement? Plenty of confidence? tick tick tick! Yep, Jennifer Aniston is hitting her stride.

She's up for a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild award for her role as a woman suffering from chronic pain after a car accident in the film Cake, she's happily engaged to Justin Theroux - and most importantly, Aniston says she's getting more comfortable speaking out against her critics - including voicing her views on motherhood.

"I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women - that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated," Aniston, 45, tells Allure in its January issue.

"I don't think it's fair. You may not have a child come out of your vagina, but that doesn't mean you aren't mothering - dogs, friends, friends' children," Aniston continues.

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"I have a lot of friends who decided not to have children, who can't have children, or are trying but are having a difficult time. There's all sorts of reasons why children aren't in people's lives, and no one has the right to assume."

"It's quite rude, insulting, and ignorant," she says.

"This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself, that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is."

Jennifer Aniston for Allure. Photo: Allure

While she's confident in her choices, Aniston admits that it's not that easy to shake off the criticism: "Even saying it gets me a little tight in my throat."

As for Justin Theroux, Aniston praised her fiance: "He's a nurturer. He is so fiercely loyal. Beyond protective. I mean, the way he takes care of our dogs, he takes care of me, he takes care of friends."

"We're equals," she says.

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