Jennifer Aniston

The 'Friends' star has hit out at the pressure that she and other women have been put under to have children and explained that she has "mothered" in different ways.

She told Allure magazine: "I don't like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women—that you've failed yourself as a female because you haven't procreated. I don't think it's fair. You may not have a child, but that doesn't mean you aren't mothering—dogs, friends, friends' children. This continually is said about me: that I was so career-driven and focused on myself; that I don't want to be a mother, and how selfish that is."