Actor Jennifer Aniston says that as a woman, some people’s assumptions that she “chose career over kids” were painful to see. She said that she has now stopped taking “hurtful” pregnancy rumors personally.

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“People certainly project onto you and all that, but my job is to go, ‘Listen, I’ll show you what I’m capable of, and you decide if you want to subscribe,'” Aniston told Hollywood Reporter about attention toward her private life.

“So you disappear as much as you can, you have fun, you take on these weird roles, you don’t give a s—, you enjoy yourself, you remember that you have a gorgeous group of friends and your life is blessed and you do the best that you can,” she added.

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Aniston wrote an essay back in 2016 for the Huffington Post addressing false pregnancy reports at the time, saying, “For the record, I am not pregnant. What I am is fed up.”

In the new interview, the 52-year-old added that she used to take it all very personally.

“…the pregnancy rumors and the whole ‘Oh, she chose career over kids’ assumption,” said the actor.

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She added, “It’s like, ‘You have no clue what’s going with me personally, medically, why I can’t … can I have kids?’ They don’t know anything, and it was really hurtful and just nasty.”

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The Morning Show star added, “What the tabloids and the media did to people’s personal lives back then, regular people are doing now (on social media). Although I haven’t seen a tabloid in so long. Am I still having twins? Am I going to be the miracle mother at 52?”

“Now you’ve got social media,” she said.