14 DAY TRIAL // Celebrities often go to great lengths to hide the fact that they had any kind of work done, either on their face or body, but former “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow is actually proud of going under the knife because, she says, it was a “life altering” experience.
In a new interview with The Saturday Evening Post, Kudrow goes into the details of the nose job she got when she was only 16 and how it changed her life for the better because it considerably improved her self-esteem.
“That was life altering. I went from, in my mind, hideous, to not hideous. I did it the summer before going to a new high school. So there were plenty of people who wouldn't know how hideous I looked before. That was a good, good, good change,” the actress says of the rhinoplasty she got.
In a story many young women can probably relate to, Kudrow had a hard time in junior high because of her looks, but the biggest blow came when two of her friends shut her out for this reason only.
Some might argue that they weren’t real friends to start with, but there’s no reasoning when the broken heart of a teen girl is involved.
“That happened in seventh grade when we moved from sixth grade to a new school. So they knew some people, and I didn't. Eventually they just got tired of me being a tag-along,” Lisa recalls.
“They said, ‘For your own good, you need to see what would happen if we weren't here.’ It was really brutal. Very hard. It was just mean. And all of junior high felt upside down to me. It was not, like, the nice people who were popular; it wasn't the most entertaining people – it was the meanest people who were popular,” she adds.
Eventually, once her self-confidence was restored, she got to draw on this experience when creating the character of Phoebe Buffay on “Friends,” which is, to this day, one of the funniest and popular sitcom characters ever.