“It’s a child. Do you want me to send the child out of the stadium?”
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Jennifer Aniston opened up about how she remains close with her friend group.
“As we’re getting older, I think we’re realizing that quality of time spent is probably at the top of the what’s-important list for us,” Aniston told Vanity Fair of herself and her friends, which included actors Jason Bateman and Adam Sandler.
One way Aniston makes time for her friends is by hosting Sunday dinners. According to Vanity Fair, the dinners often include Bateman, his wife, Amanda Anka, their daughters, host Jimmy Kimmel and his wife Molly McNearney.
Bateman said, despite not having children of her own, Aniston is a major presence in his daughters’ lives.
“She almost makes us parents look bad because she’s so incredibly attentive and consistent with her curiosity and warmth,” Bateman told Vanity Fair.
“She’s the first one to call or text about big dates in the girls’ lives. She has questions about boyfriends,” he continued. “Aunts you might not see all the time. She’s almost closer to a co-mom with Amanda. She’s been a part of their lives from the moment they were born.”
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Bateman admitted that “it is odd for them to even understand the public Jennifer Aniston.”
Vanity Fair reports that Bateman’s 18-year-old daughter Francesca often receives hand-me-downs from Aniston. “Well, there’s my bikini,” Aniston recalled of seeing Francesca in the pieces that she’s given her. “Your child is now wearing my bikinis. Whoa. We’ve come a long way.”
In a 2022 interview with Allure, Aniston opened up the difficult times in her life, one of those times was when she was “trying to get pregnant.”
“It was a challenging road for me, the baby-making road,” she told Allure at the time, admitting that despite the years of speculation surrounding her decision not to have children, no one knew that she had attempted to start a family.
“All the years and years and years of speculation... It was really hard,” Aniston admitted. “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 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.”
But despite the difficult road that was for Aniston, she told Allure that she didn’t have any regrets. “I would say my late 30s, 40s, I’d gone through really hard sh**, and if it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be. That’s why I have such gratitude for all those shitty things.”
Aniston noted that she even feels “a little relief” that the motherhood ship has sailed. “Because there is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.’ I don’t have to think about that anymore.”
