When Friends first hit TV screens in 1994, nobody could have predicted what a huge international success it would become.
There’s seldom a person to be found that hasn’t seen every episode.
With such iconic characters, it’s no wonder that the stars of the sitcom felt under immense pressure to adhere to a certain look and to defy age.
Appearing on Bear Grylls Running Wild, actress Courteney Cox opened up about the unexpected fame and how it resulted in her having procedure which she now regrets.
Cox spoke about “keep up” with age in Hollywood.
“I think there’s a pressure to maintain your looks not just because of fame, but just being a woman in this business,” she confessed.
“Getting older, I don’t think that’s the easiest thing. But I have learned lessons. I think I was trying to keep up with getting older and trying to chase that. It’s something you can’t keep up with.”
“Sometimes you find yourself trying, and then you look at a picture of yourself and you go, ‘Oh god, I look horrible.’ I have done things that I regret, and luckily there are things that dissolve and go away. So that’s good because it’s not always been my best look,” the star said.
Her sentiments echo those of her co-star Jennifer Aniston who wrote a statement piece earlier this year in The Huffington Post.
In the piece, entitled For The Record, Aniston called bullshit on the standards to which we hold women.
“The way I am portrayed by the media is simply a reflection of how we see and portray women in general, measured against some warped standard of beauty,” she wrote.
“Sometimes cultural standards just need a different perspective so we can see them for what they really are — a collective acceptance… a subconscious agreement. We are in charge of our agreement. Little girls everywhere are absorbing our agreement, passive or otherwise. And it begins early. The message that girls are not pretty unless they’re incredibly thin, that they’re not worthy of our attention unless they look like a supermodel or an actress on the cover of a magazine is something we’re all willingly buying into. This conditioning is something girls then carry into womanhood,” she said.
The piece provoked much reaction including this piece from us.
Watch Cox’s comments below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp_ugueckjg
