Kim Wong-Shing is a staff writer at LittleThings. Her work spans beauty, wellness, pop culture, identity, food, and other topics. She is a contributing writer at NaturallyCurly, and her work has also appeared in HelloGiggles, Lifehacker, Wear Your Voice Magazine, and other outlets. She grew up in Philadelphia, attended Brown University, and is now based in New Orleans.

By all appearances, Jennifer Aniston is doing great. She’s an award-winning actress; she just starred in a new Netflix film, Dumplin’; and she has a TV role on the horizon for the first time since Friends.


But at 49 years old, she’s single and has no kids, which many people are very concerned about.

In the January issue of Elle, the actress opened up about her own thoughts on the whole marriage-and-children thing. Jen separated from her husband, Justin Theroux, at the beginning of the year. Her previous marriage to Brad Pitt ended in 2005.

“I don’t feel a void,” she admitted. “I really don’t. My marriages, they’ve been very successful, in [my] personal opinion.”


As for having children, she’s still not certain.

“Some people are just built to be wives and have babies. I don’t know how naturally that comes to me,” she said.

More importantly, she’s not overly concerned about living a “happy ending” and never has been. She’s tired of the “shallow lens” that people use to evaluate her life.

“We live in a society that messages women: By this age, you should be married; by this age, you should have children. That’s a fairy tale. That’s the mold we’re slowly trying to break out of.”

Amen, Jen!