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Monday, August 9, 2010

'You don't have to wait for a man to have a child'



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.