For Dolly, having children and grandchildren in her life doesn’t necessarily mean that she has to be a mother herself. In an interview with People Country, she said, “I grew up in a big family with eight children younger than me, and several of my siblings came to live with me very early in my life. I loved their children like they were my grandchildren, and now I have great grandchildren! … I often think it just wasn’t for me to have kids, so everyone’s kids can be mine.

In a 2014 interview with Allure, Jennifer criticized that she was too much of a workaholic to be a mother. “I do not like [the pressure] that people put on me, on women – that you failed yourself as a woman because you didn’t procreate. I don’t think it’s fair. You may not have a child coming out of your vagina, but that doesn’t mean you don’t mother – dogs, friends, children of friends. “

In 2013, Oprah told The Hollywood Reporter that she didn’t have children because if she did, they would “hate” her. “They would have ended up on the equivalent of Oprah show talk about me, because something [in my life] should have suffered, and it probably would have been them.

In an interview with Elle, Miley explained that her reason for not wanting children was largely environmental. “We did the same to the earth that we do to women. We take and take and wait for her to keep producing. And she’s exhausted. She can’t produce. We get a piece of – planet of shit, and I refuse to pass this on to my child. Until I felt like my child would live on land with fish in the water, I won’t bring in another person to take care of it. “

When asked in a CBS Sunday morning interview if she regretted not having children, Betty replied, “No, I never regretted it. I didn’t choose to have kids because I’m focused on my career. And I just don’t think as compulsively as I am, that I could handle both. “

When asked in an interview with GQ if not having children was strategic, Megan explained, “I never had the urge to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, He’s the only person I would do this with. So we gave it a try, but I was a bit long in the tooth for this sort of thing. But we didn’t make it into a soap opera. We tried for about a year, and it didn’t happen, and that meant it wasn’t meant to be. “

Dame Helen Mirren may have the best answer to the ~ baby question ~ posed in an interview with British Vogue. “It wasn’t my fate. I kept thinking it would, I waited for it to happen, but it never happened, and I didn’t care what people thought… They were just boring old men [who would ask me]. And every time they went, ‘What? No children? Well, you better get on with it, old maid, ‘I was like,’ No! Kiss my ass!'”

Chelsea doesn’t have children for an incredibly valid reason: she just didn’t want them. In a conversation with Amanda de Cadenet, she said: “I absolutely don’t want to have children, because I don’t like them … I don’t think I would be a good mother. I’m a good aunt or as a friend of a mother. I don’t want to have a child and have it raised by a nanny, and I don’t have time to raise a child. “

In an interview with The Times in 2018, Tracee discussed how she questions whether she makes life decisions for herself or for other people. “The husband and the babies are waiting for what’s supposed to happen at a certain time, and people fall back on, ‘Well, that’s the goal of the human species, procreation. “And I’m like, ‘I think there are a lot of babies; isn’t that part of what’s wrong, there are too many?’ Some people might work to make the world a better place, or just be happy. “

Christopher told The Guardian that his career probably wouldn’t have been possible if he had had children. “I’m sure a lot of kids I knew as a kid would have gone on to show business, but they had kids of their own, had to do something reliable. I didn’t, so I could manage. even in times of unemployment. “

Alison told The Times, “I don’t really want to have kids. It’s great because I don’t worry about when I should get pregnant – between seasons, while we’re filming the show. [Glow] – I don’t think about it every day. It would be nice, but I think of all the things that would be so stressful. I think about how involved we are in the lives of our cats. Oh my God, if it was a kid! “

In a 2002 interview with In Style, Stevie explains how she viewed choice. “It’s like, do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don’t want to go to PTA meetings.”

In 2017, Sarah tweeted about how her career as a road comedian has made her choose between being a mother and living her life to the fullest. She explained that although she chose the latter, men don’t have to make the same choice, and she would love to be a fun daddy “coming back from the road and being [her] best daddy myself. “

Anjelica explained to Cinema that her decision not to have children comes down to struggling with the idea of ​​balancing them with the life she already leads. She said: “There have been times I wanted kids and other times I was thankful that I didn’t have them. I’m a mess if I have to say goodbye to my dog ​​for more than five years. days. I don’t know how I would go about kissing my kids when I leave for work. I know there are women who are able to do it. I don’t know if I could. “

Aisha told HuffPost Live that choosing “work over family” was “a very valid choice, and no one should ever feel embarrassed or regret that.” Aisha also spoke about her infertility issues in the past and why she decided to stop trying. “When we discovered that [getting pregnant] was going to be difficult if not impossible, it was really a choice to quit … I wanted families [and] for couples to know that it was a valid choice not to participate in this crazy round of IVF and tens and tens of thousands of dollars.

For Winona, having children in her life doesn’t also mean being a mother. In 2014, she told the Telegraph: “It’s a bit personal, but I’m 42 and… well, I was talking to my dad last year and I was like, ‘What if I can’t have child? ‘ and he said, ‘There are other ways to have children in your life.’ It’s true, and I get these amazing doses with my brother’s kids. But I have to stop listening to other people. It’s crazy what women are going to tell you. ”

Lily wanted to give her everything one thing, and for her, that meant having a career or having a child. In 2006, she told Metro Weekly: “God only knows what I would have done with them, poor things. I really love children, but there would have been no room in my life to raise. children. I was so involved with my career, and I should have given up on the career in large part because I couldn’t have harmed the child. “

In his memoirs, All that is bitter and sweet, Ashley shared that she chose not to have children because she feels responsible for those who are already here. She explained, “I don’t need to go and make ‘my own’ babies when there are so many orphaned or abandoned children who need love, attention, time and care.” Rather, she says she has focused her resources and energy on using “advocacy and service” to “turn the world into a place where no child ever needs to be born into poverty. and abuse “.

In an interview with E !, Jennifer Lawrence shared that as she got older, she felt less inclined to have children. “When I was 21 or 22, I was like, ‘I can’t wait to be a mother. Now I’m like …[shocked face]. In fact, they become less and less as I get older which is starting to worry me. I don’t think that’s the way it should work! “

When it was pointed out that Cameron had no children in a 2014 Esquire interview, she went on to explain, “It’s so much more work to have children. To have lives other than his for which you are responsible, I did not take care of it. It made it easier for me. A baby is all day, every day for 18 years … Not having a baby can really make it easier, but it doesn’t make the decision easy. I like to protect people, but I have never been drawn to being a mother. “