Jennifer Aniston Wanted To Have Children With Brad Pitt Before This Happened

Jennifer Aniston once considered having children with Brad Pitt while they were married.

In 2004, Aniston was Hollywood's golden girl about to end her 10-year stint as Rachel Green in "Friends" and made $35 million as an actress the year prior. She and Pitt were entering the fourth year of their marriage, and Aniston believed it was the perfect time to start a family with her then-husband.

During an interview with The Guardian in 2004, Aniston revealed that she was thinking of getting pregnant, saying she could handle work and motherhood at the same time.

"It's time. It's time. You know, I think you can work with a baby, I think you can work pregnant, I think you can do all of it,” Aniston said at the time. “So I'm just truly looking forward to slowing down."

At the time, Pitt had been filming "Mr. And Mrs. Smith," where he met second wife Angelina Jolie. As she was wrapping "Friends" at the time, she had been hoping to travel with the actor when he starts shooting "Ocean's Twelve." However, her baby plans never happened as she and Pitt announced their separation in January 2005 and finalized their divorce in October that year.

Pitt quickly moved on with Jolie, who announced via People that she was pregnant with their first child in 2006, while Aniston had been linked to several men, including "The Break-Up" co-star Vince Vaughn, John Mayer and Gerard Butler.

Aniston tied the knot with Justin Theroux in 2015, but the two announced that they were divorcing last year. Pitt, meanwhile, is currently finalizing his divorce from Jolie after a total of 12 years together.

Aniston's view on motherhood has changed over the years, confessing in a recent interview that she finds the prospect of having kids "quite honestly, kind of frightening." She also believes that she doesn't necessarily need to have a relationship or children to be happy.

“We live in a society that messages women: By this age, you should be married; by this age, you should have children. That’s a fairy tale. That’s the mold we’re slowly trying to break out of," Aniston told Elle magazine in December 2018

"Some people are just built to be wives and have babies," she continued. "I don’t know how naturally that comes to me.”