Lisa Kudrow on ‘Jarring’ Company Body Image Ride After Seeing Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox

Lisa Kudrow is opening up about her journey with physique image.

At some level of her appearance on the Podcrushed podcast in August, the actress spoke about how she felt after seeing her costars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox “in dresses” while starring within the neatly-liked sitcom Company.

“I presumed I became once appropriate in actuality skinny. I will believe no subject, [but] no, especially in highschool. And I look at photos and stutter, ‘Wow, photos in actuality distort truth,'” she mentioned. “And it wasn’t unless Company that I seen, ‘Oh, I feel not look esteem I presumed I seemed.'”

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“And that’s the reason what became once so jarring, and that is the reason when it became once esteem, ‘Oh, I’ve purchased to in actuality plunge a couple of pounds? I even maintain to weight-reduction blueprint? Shoot,'” Kudrow, 59, persisted.

When requested what precipitated such tips, she outlined, “It became once appropriate seeing myself on the display cowl and seeing myself in dresses and seeing Courteney and Jennifer in dresses.”

“And before every thing I presumed, ‘Oh, on yarn of they know, esteem, tailoring, so that they may be able to declare about it with the costume designer about where, exactly, to place terminate one thing in,” she mentioned.

Explaining that she later requested one of many costars to almost about her becoming on yarn of they maintain been esteem “sisters,” she added, “That is after I’d stumble on, ‘Oh, okay, or not it is far not always appropriate about tailoring…’ And I’m not making an attempt to hiss I became once overweight, both. I became once not. I appropriate had no idea the form of my exact physique.”

On the opposite hand, the actress’ conception of her physique image finally modified as she grew older.

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“I appropriate realized, ‘Oh no — or not it is okay. Right here’s appropriate what I look esteem. That is okay. Construct what possibilities are you’ll well also honest maintain to believe to be wholesome nevertheless here is your physique and or not it is okay,'” she outlined.

Kudrow played the character of Phoebe Buffay alongside Aniston, fifty three, who portrayed Rachel Green, and Cox, 58, as Monica Geller in Company which ran for 10 seasons on NBC from 1994 to 2004.

The Comeback indispensable person beforehand recalled how Aniston and Cox showed up to enhance her after her mother died originally of the COVID-19 pandemic as she seemed on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Present final year.

“These girls came running to enhance, that became once in actuality nice,” she shared at the time. “They came to the funeral, it wasn’t moderately a couple of see, and so that they maintain been there.”

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The trio reunited with their other Company costars Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, and David Schwimmer for the HBO Max reunion particular final Would possibly per chance well presumably.

Kudrow told PEOPLE of the solid’s long-lasting bond at the time: “I bear esteem we can non-public up appropriate where we left off, and no time’s handed. We’re linked no subject what.”

“It be aloof, to me, one of basically the most attention-grabbing jobs I’ve ever had,” Aniston added. “It goes so beyond the work and what the display cowl became once, which became once, in and of itself, appropriate a spectacular phenomenon, nevertheless the friendships and household that came out of it is far appropriate — possibilities are you’ll well not place words to that in actuality. It be helpful.”