Reflecting on the experience, Aniston insisted she had “zero regrets”. “I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.’ I don’t have to think about that any more,” she explained.

However, she claims she “would’ve given anything” if she had been advised to freeze her eggs earlier. “If someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favour.’ You just don’t think it. So here I am today. The ship has sailed,” she added.

But despite the emotional toll of experiencing something so intimate in the public eye, Aniston said that she wouldn’t change how things turned out.

“If it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be,” she explained. “That’s why I have such gratitude for all those shitty things. Otherwise, I would’ve been stuck being this person that was so fearful, so nervous, so unsure of who they were. And now, I don’t fucking care.”

“I’ve spent so many years protecting my story about IVF. I’m so protective of these parts because I feel like there’s so little that I get to keep to myself. The [world] creates narratives that aren’t true, so I might as well tell the truth. I feel like I’m coming out of hibernation. I don’t have anything to hide.”

Jennifer Aniston opens up about the “challenging road” of undergoing IVF after years of public speculation