Lisa Kudrow: I felt ‘self-conscious’ with Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox on ‘Friends’

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to co-stars Courteney Cox and Jennifer Aniston.During a recent interview on the podcast “Podcrushed,” the “Easy A” actress, 59, recalled feeling “self-conscious” during costume fittings with her castmates back in the day — because clothes seemed to look better on them.“Seeing myself on the show and seeing myself in clothes and seeing Courtney and Jennifer, I thought, ‘Oh, they know tailoring so they can discuss it with the costume designer about where exactly to take it in,’ ” she told “Podcrushed” hosts Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari.Kudrow played the iconically kooky Phoebe Buffay for 10 seasons on the NBC comedy from 1994 to 2004.“I’m not trying to say I was overweight,” the mother of one added. “I was not.

I just had no idea of the actual shape of my body.”As Kudrow reached her 40s, she learned to accept her body for what it was. “It’s OK.

This is just what I look like,” she conceded.The “Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion” star reiterated that her goal in Hollywood was not to become a Marilyn Monroe-type bombshell.She went on to explain that she had initially hoped to establish herself as a “character actress” in show business. “You’re not going for romantic comedies, romantic lead — you don’t do that,” she stated of herself. “That’s not a fun role for you anyway, so knock it off.

It’s OK, you can look fine as you are.”Kudrow then explained how the pressure to look a certain way in Tinseltown is all “in your own head.” “You’re doing that to yourself,” she said. “No one needs you to be Tom Cruise or as famous as Tom Cruise.