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"I thought I was the problem": Lisa Kudrow complexed on the set of Friends

2022-12-20T11:59:13.667Z


VIDEO – The actress who played Phoebe in the hit series suffered from the physical comparison with Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox.


The series has given a whole generation the desire for roommates.

Six thirty-somethings manage their professional and emotional lives with humor in New York.

The success of the series

Friends

comes largely from the complicity of the actors on the screen.

But for

Lisa Kudrow

who played Phoebe, some complexes came to spoil her pleasure on the set.

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It is in the Podcrushed podcast hosted by Penn Badgley, the flagship comedian of the

You

series , the actress confided to having suffered from the physical comparison with her two female partners,

Jennifer Aniston

and Courteney Cox.

The interpreters of Rachel and Monica are smaller and thinner than her and the choice of outfits for their characters is more flattering in her eyes than the clothes chosen for Phoebe.

"

When I was in high school, I thought I was too skinny

," the actress explained before adding,

"but it wasn't until I did

Friends

that I realized I didn't look like what I thought

”.

She then said to herself "

shaken

“to the point of wondering if she should lose weight

 :

I said to myself:

“Do I have to go on a diet?

Thin".

»

.

The complex settles in Lisa Kudrow's mind: “

I'm not saying I was overweight, because I wasn't.

But I saw that my body was completely different from theirs and I thought I was the problem

”.

Read alsoFriends: a reunion between laughter and emotion

Now 59, the actress has calmed her relationship with her self-image.

“I realized that I simply didn't know anything about the real shape of my body,”

she analyzes.

Even if, before that, she chained diets to the point of sometimes putting her health in danger:

“When I was very thin, I always fell ill”.

She concludes:

“I said to myself

“do what you have to do to be healthy, it's your body and everything is fine”.

".

Source: lefigaro

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