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"She is woman, hear her roar! Jennifer Aniston shut down the haters yet again when she sat down with Carson Daly to tape an interview for the Today show&amp;apos;s Wednesday, Aug. 27, episode. During their chat, the Cake actress, 45, opened up about the pressure she feels to start a family, and how she&amp;apos;s changed since Friends went off the air 10 years ago.\r\n\r\nAt one point in the sit-down, Daly brought up Aniston&amp;apos;s Q&amp;amp;A with famed feminist Gloria Steinem at the February Makers Conference, where the two joked that they were in &amp;quot;deep s--t&amp;quot; because they&amp;apos;re not currently married with children. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;d talked to her personally about this for a while, just because it is such an issue of, like, &amp;apos;Are you married yet? Are you going to have your babies yet?&amp;apos;&amp;quot; Aniston explained to Daly. (The star has been engaged to Justin Theroux since summer 2012.)\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t have this sort of checklist of things that have to be done, and...if they&amp;apos;re not checked, then I&amp;apos;ve failed some part of my feminism or my being a woman or my worth and my value as a woman because I haven&amp;apos;t birthed a child,&amp;quot; Brad Pitt&amp;apos;s ex-wife continued. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ve birthed a lot of things, and I feel like I&amp;apos;ve mothered many things,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;And I don&amp;apos;t feel like it&amp;apos;s fair to put that pressure on people.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nPressure at work is a different story. The Horrible Bosses 2 actress welcomes chances to challenge herself and step outside her comfort zone, as she does in the upcoming dark comedy Life of Crime. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m having a lot of fun, because I&amp;apos;ve been branching out and...playing different characters and hiding and going into...some darker stuff,&amp;quot; she raved.\r\nWhich is not to say she hasn&amp;apos;t enjoyed the lighter stuff, of course. Aniston cherishes it all, because it brought her to where she is now.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I feel like I&amp;apos;ve grown up three times. I feel like I&amp;apos;ve had three different periods of adolescence,&amp;quot; she told Daly when asked about the trajectory of her career since Friends. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ve had an incredible evolution. I keep seeing these little lifetimes that I lived, and they&amp;apos;re all so wonderful. They all served me so well...I feel very grateful to my evolution and my history. I would never exchange it for anything.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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