'You don't have to wait for a man to have a child': Jennifer Aniston on going it alone

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By Andrea Magrath

'Times have changed': Jennifer Aniston discussed her views on artificial insemination while promoting her new film The Switch


Starring in a film about artificial insemination, Jennifer Aniston was always going to invite speculation over whether she would go down that route herself.

The 41-year-old actress has been answering questions about marriage and motherhood for years now, and it seems she thinks her latest character has the right idea.

'Women are realising it more and more knowing that they don't have to settle with a man just to have that child,' she said at a press conference for new film The Switch on Sunday.

'Times have changed and that is also what is amazing is that we do have so many options these days, as opposed to our parents' days when you can't have children because you have waited too long.'

In The Switch, Aniston plays Kassie, a single woman who is desperate for a baby and decides to have artificial insemination to fall pregnant.

Her best friend Wally (Jason Bateman), who is in love with her, drunkenly switches the donor sperm with his own, and doesn't tell her.


'It's something I long for': The 41-year-old, pictured shopping in New York this weekend, says she still wishes for a family, but has no plans to go down the 'turkey baster' route, like her character, for now


Speaking at the Four Season hotel in Beverly Hills, Aniston said she still wishes for a family of her own.

'Yeah, I have said it years before and I still say it today,' she said. But will she turn to the 'turkey baster' method, like Kassie?

'I don't have plans on that, no,' says Aniston. But speaking to Entertainment Weekly recently, she hinted 'I'm on the verge of it in some way...it's something I long for.'

People magazine quotes Jennifer saying, 'the point of the movie is what is it that defines family? It isn't necessarily the traditional mother, father, two children and a dog named Spot.

'Love is love and family is what is around you and who is in your immediate sphere.



'Love is love': The actress, who plays a single mother, says traditional stereotypes of family have changed


'That is what I love about this movie. It is saying it is not the traditional sort of stereotype of what we have been taught as a society of what family is.'

Jennifer stars alongside Bateman in the film and the two clearly enjoyed their experience.

In fact, Jason has suggested Aniston for a role in the long-awaited big screen version of his hit show Arrested Development. He said recently, 'There's a real good part for her (in the movie).'

And it sounds like the Friends star is well up for it, saying, 'I love it. I actually think I might have asked (Bateman) if that was possible... Anything to work with Jason.'

She'll get her wish almost immediately, as they are both set to appear in Horrible Bosses, already filming, alongside Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey and Colin Farrell. They have previously worked together in The Break-Up.

'He is perhaps the most adorable human being on the planet. I'm so glad he's having a resurgence,' she told US Harper's Bazaar.


Making the Switch: Jason Bateman, who switches Aniston's donor sperm for his own in the film, loved working with the Friends star


Funny Girl: The actress channels her idol Barbra Streisand in a new photo shoot for US Harper's Bazaar magazine, saying 'she's a true renaissance woman'


Aniston is on the cover of the fashion magazine playing homage to her idol Barbra Streisand. She channels the Oscar and Grammy winning legend in a series of beautiful shots.

'Barbra inspires me because there isn't anything she hasn't done that she wanted to do, especially as a female in the time when her generation was prime, Jennifer says.

'She's a true renaissance woman. I had a long conversation with Barbra about directing because I directed a short a couple years ago, and if I don't do it again soon, I'm going to burst out of my skin.

'And we also love interior design. Also, we are people who have been put in the spotlight, for better or for worse, and you just keep riding, and you keep overcoming, and you just stay true to what you love to do.'

source: dailymail
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