14 DAY TRIAL // After being criticized on live television for her words in a recent interview on how women could choose to have a baby without a father if they wanted to, Jennifer Aniston defends her stance on single motherhood in a new statement to People.
While promoting her upcoming film, “The Switch,” in which she plays a 40something woman determined to start a family even though she doesn’t even have a man in her life (save for her friends, of course), Jennifer Aniston said that she was happy women could choose fertilization.
Women don’t really need men if they want to start a family, she also said, which is an option that was not available to them a while back. In saying this, she reportedly wanted to explain the decisions her character takes in the new film.
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, though, didn’t take this at face value, saying that, with her comments, Aniston is literally telling impressionable teens they can go on and have babies even if they’re not married.
She was literally prophesying a destructive idea for America, especially in a context where a surge in the number of single mothers has been recorded over the past year.
Aniston, on the other hand, would beg to differ: before O’Reilly passes judgment, he should first try to understand that some things are simply not black or white, even if that’s how we’d like them to be.
Her comments were not meant to tell women they should all aspire to have babies out of wedlock and by means of IVF, the actress explains. Sometimes, though, Prince Charming simply refuses to appear – and fertilization remains the only option.
Though ideally, all women out there would want a loving partner to share everything with and to start a family with, few are those who actually get to see it happen, Aniston says.
“Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age. Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth,” Aniston says for People magazine in a statement released just hours ago,
“And, of course, many women dream of finding Prince Charming (with fatherly instincts), but for those who’ve not yet found their Bill O’Reilly, I’m just glad science has provided a few other options,” the actress adds.
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