Aniston 'picking up pieces' after split with Pitt - Access Hollywood - MSNBC.com

Photos

Jennifer Aniston

see larger image

uploaded by mediaJunkie

It's been four months since Jennifer Aniston's first post-Brad interview with Access Hollywood's Billy Bush.

And now, thanks to the new Vanity Fair cover girl, there's no longer any reason to guess what life is like for Jen.

A candid, emotional and surprisingly topless Jen re-emerges in a very sexy Vanity Fair photo spread wearing black panties and not much else.
Story continues below %u2193 advertisement

But not only are there sexy pictures, there's also a very open conversation with Vanity Fair's Leslie Bennetts, who over the course of several days, met with Jen at her Malibu beach house and on location of her new film in Chicago where Jen laughed, cried and laughed some more %u2014 and then took to task those nasty rumors surrounding her split from Pitt.

In her first interview since the split, Jennifer says she was "shocked" by the breakup and is trying to "pick up the pieces in the midst of this media circus."

"I think she finally felt it was time to say her piece," Bennetts told Access Hollywood after the interview. "I think possibly the most hurtful and infuriating for Jennifer was the reports that she wouldn't have Brad's child and that's why their marriage ended."

In the interview, Jen said: "I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will!%u2026I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all."

Jen said she and Brad planned to have a child when she wrapped "Friends" in January of 2004, but by then Jen said Brad "just wasn't there for me."

In fact, Brad didn't even show up for the final "Friends" taping.

"Unfortunately, when she finished 'Friends,' he had already started filming 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' with Angelina Jolie and had basically checked out of the marriage emotionally so %u2014 who would want to get pregnant then?" Bennetts revealed to us.