Jennifer Aniston has been a tabloid-staple celebrity ever since her starring role on Friends, and in her Allure interview for the beauty magazine’s January 2015 issue, the 45-year-old star revealed that she’s growing tired of being scrutinized for her personal life. Aniston frequently gets asked about when she plans to have kids with her fiancee of two years, Justin Theroux. This month, however, she told Allure that “mothering” and “motherhood” shouldn’t be considered mutually exclusive roles.

“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,” Aniston told Allure. “You may not have a child come out of your vagina, 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.”

Aniston’s interview was meant to promote her film Cake, in which she portrays a women who suffers from chronic pain and hallucinations following an accident. She has already earned a Golden Globe nomination for the role and is being considered an early Oscar contender. Aniston used the newfound hype around the film to discuss the controversial topic of inequality in Hollywood.

“A woman going physically unattractive is where you get recognition and some sort of respect. You read things like, ‘Oh, finally, she’s acting!'” she said. “Quite sexist, to be honest, because men don’t get that.”

She went on to explain that she considers herself a feminist, though not to the extent that some people may understand the concept to be speaking of. Aniston stated that many people “overcomplicate” feminism, and that it should be defined as “simply believing in equality between men and women. Pretty basic.”