A true “Friend.”
Adam Sandler and his wife send Jennifer Aniston flowers every Mother’s Day.
The actress, 54, revealed the sweet gesture in a Wall Street Journal interview published Wednesday, explaining that the “Murder Mystery,” “Murder Mystery 2” and “Just Go with It” co-stars have been close friends since meeting in their 20s.
The comedian, 56, and his longtime spouse, Jackie Sandler, have been married since June 2003 and share two daughters: Sadie, 17, and Sunny, 14.
Aniston, who does not have kids, detailed her “challenging” fertility struggles for the first time last year, telling Allure that she spent a long time “trying to get pregnant.”
“If it wasn’t for going through that, I would’ve never become who I was meant to be. That’s why I have such gratitude for all those s–tty things,” she shared in November 2022.
During “all the years of [media] speculation” surrounding the topic, the “Friends” star said she was secretly “going through IVF [and] drinking Chinese teas.”
She recalled “throwing everything at it.”
“I would’ve given anything if someone had said to me, ‘Freeze your eggs. Do yourself a favor.’ You just don’t think it,” she lamented. “So here I am today. The ship has sailed.”
Despite the deep wound, the “Morning Show” star insisted that she has “zero regrets” and “actually feel[s] a little relief” now.
“There is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe,'” she explained. “I don’t have to think about that anymore.”
Aniston likened the feeling of sharing her situation publicly to “coming out of hibernation.”
“I’ve spent so many years protecting my story about IVF,” she told the magazine. “I’m so protective of these parts because I feel like there’s so little that I get to keep to myself. … I don’t have anything to hide.”
The Emmy winner — who was married to Brad Pitt from 2000 to 2005 and then Justin Theroux from 2015 to 2017 — has long found her family plans at the forefront of much speculation.
She clapped back at the “absolute lies” that Pitt, 59, “left” her because she was a “selfish” partner who “wouldn’t give him a kid,” saying, “God forbid a woman is successful and doesn’t have a child.”
In a July 2016 Huffington Post op-ed, Aniston pointed out that “women do a lot of incredible things other than procreate.”
“The objectification and scrutiny we put women through is absurd and disturbing,” she wrote at the time. “The way I am portrayed by the media is simply a reflection of how we see and portray women in general, measured against some warped standard of beauty.”
