She has a ‘friend with benefits’ in co-star Gerard Butler – but what she really wants is to be a mother.
Talking to Grazia recently, ahead of the premiere of her new film The Bounty Hunter, Jennifer Aniston told us she had reached a new point in her life when it came to relationships.
She said, “I’ve had some wonderful experiences and over the years I’ve learned so much more about myself, and I hope I’ve reached a point where I’m ready to enjoy being with a great man and making a life and having a family together.
“That’s always been my dream.”
But the actress’s quest has grown more desperate since a recent visit to a fertility doctor, who gave her a shocking assessment of her chances of becoming a mother.
“Basically he told her that, at 41, the odds are increasingly against her getting pregnant and that if she wants to have a biological child, she needs to start right now because every month she waits will make a difference,” a friend tells us.
“Jen had gone to him just to ask about options, but she came out in a head spin because she realised she may have to ditch the whole love-marriage-baby dream and go it alone when it comes to motherhood.
“She’s now full into the whole IVF thing. She’s been reading up on sperm donation and started taking fertility-boosting vitamins and folic acid. She’s really worried that she may have left it too late.”
The doctor also told Jen she needs to put on some weight and ease up on her super-low-kilojoule diet in order to increase her chances of falling pregnant – as well as cut back on her favourite margaritas.
She had been toying with the idea of adoption and had talked to her friend Sheryl Crow, who has gone down that route, but she has also been swayed by best friend Courteney Cox, who had her daughter Coco, now 5, at the age of 40 after more than a year of fertility treatment.
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