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Stars Sans Kids - Is it just us, or does it seem like Hollywood's hottest accessory these days is a baby? While strollers and diaper bags seem to have replaced Jimmy Choos and Birkins on must-have lists, not all stars are opting to follow the trend into motherhood. Here's a list of celebs who are child-free and proud. (Photos from left: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

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Oprah Winfrey - She's an icon for women everywhere, but Oprah has often had to face the question of why she never became a mother. The media mogul makes no apologies in stating that she decided to put her career first. "If I had kids, my kids would hate me," she said bluntly. It does, however, beg the question: Who will inherit her billions? (Photo: Brian To/WENN.com)

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Janet Jackson - This 49-year-old pop legend had a childhood so rough, we don't blame her for not wanting to have kids. While Jackson, who married billionaire Wissam al-Mana in 2012, hasn't ruled out becoming a mother, she did say "it doesn't seem essential."(Photo: KCS Presse / Splash News)

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Cameron Diaz - Unlike her married-with-two-kids BFF Drew Barrymore, the Sex Tape star seems to be loving newly married life, having just tied the knot with rock star Benji Madden. As for kids, Cameron once said being child-free "makes life much easier," but there's word now that since becoming a wife, the actress wants a mini-me. Only time will tell. (Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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Tyra Banks - She may be retired from the runway, but Banks's career is hotter than ever. Between acting, producing and two television series — America's Next Top Model and her upcoming talk show FABLife — on her plate, the 41-year-old makes it clear that kids are not her priority. "There's a weird thing with women...sometimes it's like, 'Why don't you sit down and have a baby?' I don't want to slow down. I'm an overachiever and I'm not apologetic about it," she said.  (Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images)

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Queen Latifah - There have been rumors for years that Queen Latifah is working on adopting a child, but for now there is no heir — or heiress — to her throne. The notoriously private star seems content to simply nurture her empire. (Photo: Cindy Ord/Getty Images)

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Aisha Tyler - Unlike some of her child-free peers, Tyler's lack of a little one wasn't by choice. The comedian tried in vain to have a baby, but gave up after years of fertility treatments proved fruitless. "God only knows the reason why I can't have kids, and I'm okay with that," she said. (Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images for CCTA)

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Pam Grier - The Blaxploitation star and one of Quentin Tarantino's muses was too busy making history to get married or have kids. As her memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, makes clear, her life was definitely too wild to bring a child into!  (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Star Jones - The former The View co-host never had any kids, but has been a mother-figure to her nieces and nephews and an inspiration to women everywhere thanks to her work raising awareness for women's heart disease. Plus, Star has a career both as a lawyer and a television personality to fall back on.  (Photo: Andrew Toth/Getty Images for BAUME & MERCIER)

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Rosie Perez - The Do the Right Thing star grew up as a ward of the state in New York and was one of the few kids who made it out of the system and flourished. While Rosie opted not to have any biological children, she is a mentor to hundreds of underprivileged kids in NYC and a beloved aunt to several nieces and nephews. (Photo: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for : Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

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Billie Holiday - Lady Day had a lot of ups and downs before she died at the age of 44 in 1959, but no children. Instead, her legacy lives on through her timeless music.  (Photo: Evening Standard/Getty Images)

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Octavia Spencer - The 44-year-old Oscar winner says she's "just fine" with the decision to not have children, even joking that her "eggs are drying up." But Spencer still maintains a connection with kids as the author of her very own children's book, The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit.  (Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

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Angela Davis - This civil rights activist and political firestarter is a hero to college students everywhere, but never had kids of her own. Her ideas have still influenced an entire new generation of activists, however.   (Photo: EPA/BORIS ROESSLER /LANDOV)

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Vivica A. Fox - The Independence Day star admits a run-in with a celeb mom made her regret being so focused on her career that she missed her opportunity to have kids. "I’ll never forget when I saw Halle Berry one time and how happy I saw that she was with Nahla. I said, ‘Nahla has brought you so much joy.’ And Halle said, 'Vivica, I wish I had did it years ago, I would have had five.'” (Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images)

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Anita Hill - The Washington trailblazer, who "spoke truth to power" when she testified in front of Congress on sexual harrassment claims against Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, is also a trailblazer in her personal life. Not only did Hill opt out of having children, she has never been married. Hill does, however, have a partner of ten years and says that marriage and kids "is not something I choose not to do, I just haven't chosen to do it yet." (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

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La Toya Jackson - Michael Jackson's little sis found herself playing surrogate parent — sort of — to his three kids over the years, but never had any children of her own. The 58-year-old claims that may change now that she's engaged to her longtime friend Jeffré Phillips. Could adoption be in the cards for this soon-to-be-newlywed? (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for BET)

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Cicely Tyson - The Trip to Bountiful star, one of the most revered actresses alive today, never had any children though she has dedicated a good portion of her free time working with children through her Cicely Tyson School of Performing Arts. (Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images for Critics' Choice Television Awards)

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Sheryl Underwood - This comedian and military vet's rough childhood may be a contributing factor as to why she never married or had kids. While co-hosting The Talk, Underwood revealed that her twin sister had died and that her mother blamed her father for the tragedy, driving a wedge between their already fragile family. The comedian's father also suffered from domestic violence brought on by her mother. As Sheryl says, those painful memories of her broken family haunt her to this day. (Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Condoleezza Rice - The former Secretary of State is used to being in a boy's club and decided not to follow the traditional route of marriage and children. "I won't have kids," she told Ladies Home Journal recently. "I would have lived a very fulfilled life had I gotten married and had kids, but I'm very religious, and I believe things work out as they are supposed to. The key is to appreciate the life you've been given." (Photo: David Cannon/Getty Images)

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Ella Fitzgerald - Despite the well-known fact that Fitzgerald loved children, the combination of a busy touring schedule and short-lived relationships accounts for why she never had any of her own. Still, Ella was a surrogate parent to hundreds of kids through her Ella Fitzgerald Child Care Center, which she established for underprivileged kids in 1977.  (Photo: John Downing/Express/Getty Images)