Jennifer Aniston has hit out at critics who have tried to shame her for not starting a family and says she has "worked too hard" to be "whittled down to a sad, childless human".
The 47-year-old Friends star, who married actor Justin Theroux last year, said she is tired of being "shamed" for her divorce to Brad Pitt, for her changing body and for not having children.
"My marital status has been shamed, my divorce status was shamed, my lack of a mate had been shamed, my nipples have been shamed", she told Marie Claire magazine.
"It’s like, why are we only looking at women through this particular lens of picking us apart? Why are we listening to it? I just thought: ‘I have worked too hard in this life and this career to be whittled down to a sad, childless human."
The actress, who next stars alongside Jason Bateman in the comedy Office Christmas Party, said that she is thinking about what to do next in her life.
"This is a time when I'm not completely sure what I'm doing," she said.
"I'm at this sort of crossroads trying to figure out what inspires me deep in my core. What used to make me tick is not necessarily making me tick anymore."
"All I know is that I feel completely seen, and adored, in no matter what state," she said.
"There's no part of me that I don't feel comfortable showing, exposing. And it brings forth the best part of myself, because I care about him so much. And he's such a good person.
"It hurts me to think of anything hurting him," she added.
Theroux recently said he is "very proud" of how his wife handles the "stresses that have been put on her."
"[Jennifer] is a proper badass. She has lived through a lot of bulls***," Theroux is quoted by Contact Music as saying.
"Many people would have crumbled under some of the stresses that have been put on her. I'm very proud of her for that, for the way she handles herself."
