Lisa Kudrow Says Working With Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox on ‘Friends’ Triggered Weight Insecurities: It Was ‘So Jarring’

Lisa Kudrow Says Working With Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox on ‘Friends’

Triggered Weight Insecurities: It Was ‘So Jarring’

 

Lisa Kudrow Says Working With Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox on 'Friends' Triggered Weight Insecurities: It Was 'So Jarring'

Feeling the pressure. Lisa Kudrow revealed how acting alongside Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox on Friends led to her own body insecurities.Related: Celebrities That Are Leading the Body-

 

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“I thought I was just really skinny,” Kudrow, 59, said of her body perception as a young woman during an August appearance on the “Popcrushed” podcast, which recently resurfaced. “I can do whatever. [But] no, especially in high school [I thought I was skinny]. And I looked at pictures [at that time] and [would] say, ‘Wow, pictures really distort reality.’”The California native explained that it “wasn’t until Friends that I realized, ‘Oh, I don’t look like I thought I looked.’”

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Kudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay on the NBC sitcom, added: “And that’s what was so jarring, and that’s when it was like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to actually lose weight? I have to diet? Shoot.’”

The Emmy winner pointed to her costars — whom she worked with from 1994 to 2004 — as the source of her insecurities.

“It was just seeing myself on the show and seeing myself in clothes and seeing Courteney and Jennifer in clothes,” she recalled. “And at first I thought, ‘Oh, because they know, like, tailoring, so they can discuss it with the costume designer about where exactly to take something in.’”“That’s when I would see, ‘Oh, OK, it’s not just about tailoring.’ And I’m not trying to say I was overweight, either. I was not,” the Comeback alum explained. “I just had no idea the shape of my actual body.”

The P.S. I Love You actress revealed that her body image shifted as she grew up.

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“Maybe not till, like, my late 30s or 40s … I just realized, ‘Oh no — it’s OK. This is just what I look like. That’s OK,’” Kudrow concluded. “Do what you need to do to be healthy, but this is your body [and] it’s OK.”

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