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Jennifer Aniston has been speaking publicly about the fact that she doesn’t have children, and for the most part, she’s been applauded for her candor and honesty.

But some of her remarks have received blowback from folks who believe that the Friends star may have unintentionally disparaged the practice of adoption.

The backlash stems from comments Aniston made during a recent appearance on the “Armchair Expert” podcast.

Aniston opened up about her fertility journey, prompting co-host Monica Padman to ask why she never adopted kids.

Jen began by explaining that at 56, she feels that the “ship has sailed” and there’s a “peaceful” quality to her life.

“It’s so peaceful,” Aniston said. “But I will say there’s a point where it’s like out of my control. There’s literally nothing I can do about it.”

“When people say, ‘But you can adopt,’ I don’t want to adopt,” she continued.

“I want my own DNA in a little person. That’s the only way, selfish or not, whatever that is, I’ve wanted it.”

Aniston was speaking only of her own personal preferences, but across the social media landscape, critics accused her of bashing adoption as a general practice.

“I sympathize with her because my mom also has infertility issues. That’s why they adopted me. Me not having their DNA doesn’t change anything about being a parent,” wrote one X user.

“Jennifer Aniston calling adoption ‘not for her’ because she only wants her ‘own DNA’ is brutally tone-deaf. Millions of kids need homes, but celebrity empathy apparently stops where genetics begin. Dressing that up as honesty doesn’t make it any less self‑absorbed,” another added.

Elsewhere on the podcast, Aniston says that she still finds herself thinking that certain romantic partners “would have made some good kids,” but she added that the sentiment will “pass within three seconds.”

“It just wasn’t in the plan, whatever the plan was,” she said, adding that “it’s very emotional, especially in the moment when they say ‘that’s it,’ because there is a weird moment when that happens.”

This is not the first time that Aniston has spoken abouyt these issues.

“Here I am today. The ship has sailed,” she said in a 2022 interview with Allure. “I actually feel a little relief now because there is no more, ‘Can I? Maybe. Maybe. Maybe.’ I don’t have to think about that anymore.”

However, it’s the first time that Aniston has spoken publicly about her stance on adoption, and she’ll continue to receive some blowback for her comments.

Jennifer Aniston’s Adoption Comments Spark Fury on Social Media: ‘I Want My … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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John Mayer is dating Kat Stickler, multiple reports confirm.

The alleged Casanova who has courted controversy multiple times and the hot TikTok mom have quietly become an item. And now, the news is out.

Mayer has many critics, but it sounds like Stickler is having a good time.

How did they meet? Is it serious? When are they going public?

Random new couple alert: John Mayer & Kat Stickler

According to a report by Us Weekly, 47-year-old John Mayer is dating Kat Stickler.

Mayer is of course a musician.

He does not have a great reputation as a person. However, his qualities as a human being aside, reports consistently describe him as fantastic in bed.

Stickler is not quite so famous, but she is very recognizable from social media — particularly TikTok.

The 30-year-old mom often shares stories involving her 5-year-old daughter. She also posts those videos that misuse “POV” for whatever reason.

@katstickler

I’ll take what she’s on

♬ Romantique (from “En Cas De Malheur”, 1958) – René Cloërec

As multiple outlets reported on the two, an inside source shared details about the alleged entanglement.

“John sought her out and pursued her,” the insider dished.

“Kat just broke up with someone she had been dating for a few months,” the source detailed.

Over a year ago, she was dating Bachelor Nation’s very own Jason Tartick. They split in October 2024. It sounds like this ex may have been more recent.

“And,” the insider explained, Stickler “thought it would be fun to date again, and was interested in John.”

Apparently, he was the interested party (but she’s ‘having fun’)

“He has been actively pursuing her,” the source reiterated.

The insider detailed that John Mayer has been “inviting her places and texting her often.”

And it worked!

As for Kat Stickler, the source admits that she “doesn’t think this will be a serious relationship.”

For now, however, the insider says that Stickler is “having fun.”

We mentioned earlier that reports pretty consistently say that Mayer is an extremely good lay.

(And we cannot confirm or dispute rumors of his generous endowment)

So it of course makes sense to hear that Stickler is enjoying herself.

“She is interested,” the source emphasized, “and seeing where it goes.”

One has to wonder who this well-placed insider is to share so much of Stickler’s thoughts on the matter without seeming to know much from Mayer’s side.

Is this a relationship ‘soft launch’ or a leak?

Some might conclude that John Mayer or Kat Stickler or both wanted to soft launch whatever they have going on.

If so, you’d think that it’s Stickler, given the inside source’s POV … except that they’re not describing someone head over heels in love and ready to go public.

Maybe someone outside of this alleged entanglement wanted the world to know.

Will the fun stop now that everyone knows, or will we start seeing these two take a more public approach?

Only time will tell. Maybe Stickler will join the ranks of Mayer’s exes with eye-popping stories to share. Or maybe not.

John Mayer & Kat Stickler Are Randomly DATING, Reports Claim was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Kody Brown is ready for his next chapter.

On this past Sunday’s new episode of Sister Wives, the Brown family patriarch opened up about he and wife Robyn selling their Flagstaff, Arizona home in order to move into bigger residence on the other side of the city.

(As viewers likely knew at the time, these scene were filmed many, many months ago.)

“This house had a series of sad events. First of all, I started breaking up with my family. I get Covid. Christine leaves,” Kody said on of his first wife to exit the polygamous marriage in November 2021.

Since that time, of course, Janelle and Meri have also walked out on their spiritual unions… leaving Kody and Robyn in a monogamous relationship.

The father of 17, meanwhile, also dealt with the ultimate tragedy in March 2024 when his son Garrison committed suicide.

“And then, this is where I got the news of Garrison’s passing,” Kody added on this episode. This place has pain in it.”

While alongside Robyn outside of their house, Kody went on to admit that he’s done with the past. It’s been too painful of late.

“I’m just excited to leave. I’m very, very excited. I feel serenity at the other place. The peace that I’ve been looking for, I think,” he said.

Almost no one out there feels sorry for Kody, especially as more and more information comes out about the guy, but he’s still out there trying to garner sympathy.

“We experienced a lot of heartache here. This is where my heart broke, right here. We want a new beginning. Something different, something new. So much has changed,” he continued on the episode.

In a confessional of her own, Robyn delved into up she personally experienced at the home when she learned her former sister wives were peacing out.

“I was in a deep, deep depression in this house while the splits were happening. While the divorces were happening. Every split was happening while we were living in this hashknife house,” she said.

As for those ex-sister wives themselves?

Christine has been married to David Woolley for years and isn’t exactly connected any longer with her awful ex.

“I just found out from a random stranger, like online, about Kody and Robyn selling their house,” she said when the cameras turned to her. “And I just didn’t believe it at all.”

She continued:

“Kody probably has a lot of hard memories in that house. He had three wives leave him while he lived in that house. And yeah, it’s his and Robyn’s home, and it was just them inside. But think about all the conversations they had and all the hard times that he had in different rooms of that house.

“All the frustration and anger that he felt in the house.”

We previously reported on Kody and Robyn listing the Flagstaff home for $1.7 million in August 2024.

According to property records, they first purchased the home in 2019 for $890,000 — and ended up selling it for $1.8 million in November 2024.

Kody Brown Leaves Old Life Behind, Is Ready for “New Beginning” was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes got together under controversial circumstances.

But they now plan on remaining together for life.

The former GMA3: What You Need to Know anchor and journalist confirmed their engagement on the October 14 episode of their Amy & T.J. podcast.

(Yes, apparently these two also have a podcast.)

“We are sharing with all of you that we are engaged and we’ve been engaged for just about a month now,” Robach told listeners, while her husband-to-be added:

“We wanted to let you all know before anybody else was able to. We’ve learned that lesson, I guess, in the past about our relationship.”

Holmes then quipped how his fiancée had been “dangling a ring in everybody’s face every chance you could, and nobody said a word.”

“I was in three massive football stadiums three weekends in a row, wearing my engagement ring very proudly, very excitedly, and kept waiting for somebody to point it out or ask me, ‘Hey, what’s that?’ And it never happened,” Robach said.

Back in late 2022, photos went viral of Robach and Holmes looking quite cozy… while they were married to Andrew Shue and Marilee Fiebig, respectively.

Just a few weeks later, the couple were officially axed from their jobs at ABC amid the alleged cheating scandal.

Both insiders and the celebrities themselves, however, have sworn that these marriages were over and everyone was living separately when the relationship started.

To the pair’s credit (we guess?), they appear to have fallen truly in love and rumors of an engagement have been swirling for months and months.

On this new podcast, the polarizing stars promised to share some details about “how it all went down” at a later date. In the meantime, they said they have “just been celebrating with family.”

One month before announcing their engagement to the world, Robach and Holmes got honest about the possibility of expanding their family.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but we have talked more lately about having kids. We have talked more lately about the idea of even adopting a child and usually it’s me bringing it up to you,” Holmes told Robach on their podcast in September.

“Usually the response is the one you all just heard. She laughs at me. She’s laughing at me.”

Separately, in February, Robach said she’s looking forward to an “intimate” wedding, adding:

if I had to pick, I’d pick eloping and going to Fiji or somewhere really nice and far away.”

Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes: ENGAGED Three Years After Massive Scandal! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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Kevin Federline is sounding the alarm about his ex-wife’s mental health.

And he’s gone so far as to claim that Britney Spears’ behavior has led him to fear for the safety of their two sons.

Federline, who was married to Spears from 2004 to 2007, has a new memoir on the way, and the excerpts we’re seeing so far do not portray Britney in a very flattering light.

Kevin accuses Britney of brandishing weapons near their sons

The book, titled You Thought You Knew, won’t hit stores until next week.

But an excerpt published today by the New York Times is already generating controversy on social media.

The most shocking passages have to do with Britney’s mental health issues and her alleged behavior toward her sons, Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19.

“They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep — ‘Oh, you’re awake?’ — with a knife in her hand,” Federline writes, adding:

“Then she’d turn around and pad off without explanation.”

That incident occurred when the kids were much younger, but Federline says his concerns are as strong as ever, as he believes that Spears’ mental health has deteriorated in the years since her conservatorship came to an end.

Federline says Spears’ situation has gotten worse in recent years

“The truth is, this situation with Britney feels like it’s racing toward something irreversible. It’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK,” he writes.

“From where I sit, the clock is ticking, and we’re getting close to the 11th hour. Something bad is going to happen if things don’t change, and my biggest fear is that our sons will be left holding the pieces.”

Spears’ social media content has often created concern among fans in recent years. But for the most part, those concerns have been for Britney’s well-being, not for the people around her.

Federline and his sons relocated to Hawaii in 2023, and for a time, Britney’s contact with the boys was minimal.

These days, she appears to be on better terms with Sean and Jayden, but clearly, their father is uncomfortable with the situation.

We won’t know the whole story until Kevin’s book is released, but we’d guess that Britney’s legal team is ready to take action at a moment’s notice.

We’ll have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.

Kevin Federline Says Britney Spears Watched Kids Sleep With Knife In Her Hand, Warns … was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.

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