For Lisa Kudrow, cosmetic surgery is not an option when it comes to keeping herself looking youthful – at least, not anymore.
The actress, 62, opened up in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter about her experiences in particular with Botox and how she believes it’s causing irritation in her face just two years into using it.
Ditching the Botox
During her conversation, she attributed some irritation in her eyes to Botox, revealing that she’d only gotten it for the first time at 60. But now, no more. “I think it contributed to my eye irritation and this weird pattern on my forehead, so I’m probably done with it now anyway.”
However, she did express some surprise in the fact that people are still easily able to spot her in public, especially over three decades after becoming a household name by playing Phoebe Buffay on Friends. “I am scared of having to see myself looking like my grandmother one day, but I’m excited to play older roles,” she said of aging.
A teen nose job
While cosmetic procedures like Botox are out for Lisa, when she was a teenager, she did get a nose job. She told The Saturday Evening Post back in 2014 that the procedure changed her life.
“That was life altering,” the actress remarked. “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.”
© Getty ImagesThe Comeback, starring Valerie Cherish
Aging in an increasingly younger and more social media-driven Hollywood is a prominent theme for Lisa’s show The Comeback, which she began creating and producing with Sex and the City’s Michael Patrick King back in 2005.
The initial premise of the show centered around B-list former sitcom star Valerie Cherish, who is trying to stage a revival of sorts in the mainstream with her reality show, titled The Comeback, and is presented as found footage content. The series quickly became a cult favorite, but was canceled after a single season.
© NBCHowever, nine years later, the show returned for a second season in 2014, in which Valerie now attempts to sell her show (once again shot in found footage style) as a pilot to Andy Cohen. The show will return for a third and final season this year, dropping on March 22, having become a cult favorite and critical darling over its run.
“We need to say ‘third and final,'” Lisa told THR of the coming installment. “I don’t know if I’ll want to do it again in 10 years, so let’s be done, that way no one is asking what’s next or whether we will even want to do more.”
© Getty Images“The most respectful thing we can do for the audience and for the character is make it a three-part story. It’s a trilogy, and this is the end,” she concluded.
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