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Jamie Roberts

Lisa Kudrow confesses Friends co-stars bodies triggered her weight insecurity

Lisa Kudrow has candidly confessed that her time on Friends alongside Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston triggered weight insecurities.

The actress who starred as Phoebe Buffay in the iconic sitcom has admitted she was left wanting to change her appearance after seeing her co-stars on set.

The 59-year-old opened up on how she felt her on-screen pals looked better than she did and said she initially put it down to "good tailoring". However, she soon started to believe that it was actually because she needed to lose weight.

She explained how during her school years she thought she was skinny and could do anything, but her opinion changed after landing her career-defining role.

Courteney Cox as Monica Geller, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay (NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
Lisa was a huge part in the iconic sitcom (NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

Los Angeles born Lisa said she asked Jennifer, 53, who played Rachel Green and Courteney, 58, who starred as Monica Geller to accompany her to various fittings to offer their wisdom. At that point she said realised it 'wasn't just about tailoring'.

Speaking on the Podcrushed podcast, she said: "It wasn't until Friends that I realised, 'Oh, I don't look like I thought I looked.'

"And that's what was so jarring, and that's when it was like, 'Oh, I've got to actually lose weight? I have to diet? Shoot.'"

She further explained: "I'm not trying to say I was overweight either. I was not. I just had no idea the shape of my actual body."

Lisa with Friends co-star David Schwimmer (lisakudrow/Instagram)

Nowadays, however, the Romy and Michelle star says she has learned to accept her body and to love it.

"I just realised, 'Oh, no - it's okay. This is just what I look like. That's okay. Do what you need to do to be healthy, but this is your body and it's okay,'" she added.

Earlier in the year, Lisa also opened up about the diversity on Friends, telling the Daily Beast : "I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis [University] and wrote about their lives after college.

"And for shows especially, when it's going to be a comedy that's character-driven, you write what you know. They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of colour."

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