In her new movie The Switch, Jennifer Aniston plays a woman who decides to get pregnant in a non-traditional way – turkey with a syringe.
During a press conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills on Sunday, the actress defended her character jump in single mothers with a sperm donor.
“Women are realizing more and more knowledge that does not have to settle for a man just to have that child,” Aniston, 41, said. “Times have changed and that is also what’s amazing are we having so many options these days, rather than days of our fathers when they can not have children because they have waited too long.”
When asked about the impact of raising a fatherless child, Aniston said she believes that all types of family can raise healthy children.
“The point of the film is what defines a family? It is not necessarily the traditional mom, dad, two kids and a dog named Spot,” she said. “Love is love and family is around you and is in its immediate sphere. That’s what I like about this movie. That is not the traditional type of stereotype of what we are taught as a society than the family.” Aniston, who has been subject to frequent tabloid rumors about having children, said she still wants to be a mom. “Yes, I said it years before and I still say today,” she said when asked if she still want to have a family. But she will not use a syringe to turkey: “I have no plans of that, no.”
