'I WAS TRYING SO HARD TO KEEP UP'
YOU South Africa|10 March 2022
Fed up with fillers and bored of Botox Courteney Cox has ditched plastic surgery in favour of ageing gracefully
KIM ABRAHAMS
'I WAS TRYING SO HARD TO KEEP UP'

Actress Courteney Cox says she realised the cosmetic procedures she'd undergone had made her look "really strange" and has had them reversed.

IT ALL started with a little injection here and there.

Courteney Cox had always had a difficult time accepting the inevitable signs of ageing, especially in a place like Hollywood where youth and beauty are the holy grail.

So when a doctor suggested the odd bump of Botox and fix of fillers to maintain her dewy freshness, she didn't think twice.

“You walk out and you don't look so bad and you think no one has noticed it's good. Then somebody tells you about another doctor: 'This person's amazing. They do this person who looks so natural'. You meet them and they say, 'You should just do this'. The next thing you know, you're layered and layered and layered."

But the Friends star now realises it was a mistake and has been undergoing procedures to reverse those cosmetic covers. These days she's embracing ageing with grace after learning several hard lessons along the way.

"I didn't realise that, oh s**t, I'm actually looking really strange with injections and doing stuff to my face that I would never do now," she says in a recent interview with the UK's Sunday Times Style magazine.

Courteney's decision to undo the procedures started in 2017 when she revealed she'd had her fillers dissolved after growing increasingly unhappy with the way she looked.

"I feel better now, she said at the time. “I think I now look more like the person I was before the adjustments. I hope I do.”

The 57-year-old star admits Hollywood makes growing older hard but also lays the blame for the pursuit of perfection at the door of her parents, Richard Lewis Cox and Courteney Bass.

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