Lisa Kudrow on ‘Jarring’ ‘Friends’ Body Image

• A candid interview, Lisa Kudrow discusses her struggles with body image.
• The actress talked about her feelings after witnessing Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox.
• Lisa Kudrow on ‘Jarring’ ‘Friends’ Body Image.

Lisa Kudrow talked about her feelings after witnessing Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox “in clothes” while appearing in the hit show Friends during her August visit on the Podcrushed podcast.

Kudrow next said can do whatever, [but] no, especially in high school, and I look at images and go, “Wow, pictures really distort reality,” she said. “I thought I was just really slender. I can do whatever, but no, ” she added. “Oh, I don’t look like I thought I looked,” I discovered after watching Friends.

The 59-year-old Kudrow continued, “And that’s what was so shocking, and that’s when it was like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to actually lose weight? I have to diet? Shoot’.”

She responded, “It was simply seeing myself on the programme and seeing myself in clothes and seeing Courteney and Jennifer in clothes,” when asked what had caused such thoughts.

In the beginning, she reasoned, “Oh, because they know, like, tailoring, so they can talk to the costume designer about where, exactly, to take anything in.

She continued, “That’s when I would notice, ‘Oh, alright, it’s not just about tailoring…’ And I’m not trying to suggest I was overweight, either. I was not. I just had no understanding the form of my actual body.” She later asked one of the costars to attend her fitting since they were like “sisters,” she said.

The actress’ perspective of her body image did, however, gradually change as she aged.

She said, “Oh no, it’s okay. This is just how I look. That’s normal. Do what you need to do to be healthy but this is your body and it’s okay.”

Friends, which aired on NBC for ten seasons from 1994 to 2004 and starred Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Aniston as Rachel Green, and Cox as Monica Geller, was a sitcom that ran for ten seasons.

When she spoke on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show last year, the Comeback star revealed how Aniston and Cox came to her aid after her mother passed away at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

She remarked at the time, “It was really great how these women came running to support.” They attended the funeral with little advance warning and showed up.

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