Lisa Kudrow felt like a ‘mountain of a woman’ while filming Friends

YOU CAN BE TOO THIN –

June 24, 2021 – “Unfortunately for a woman, if you’re underweight, you look ‘good’, that’s all I ever got,” she said. The desire to be thinner ended up having an impact on her health and Lisa felt she was constantly sick as a result. “When I was too thin, I was sick all the time, with colds, sinus infections, some kind of flu. I was always sick,” she said.

Most of us probably know Lisa Kudrow as the upbeat and quirky Phoebe Buffay from the hit ‘90s sitcom Friends. While her character provided us with upbeat positivity, Lisa herself recently opened up about negative body image issues she experienced while appearing on the show. On Wednesday, the 55-year-old actress appeared on Sirius XM’s The Howard Stern Show with her castmates Courteney Cox and Jennifer Anniston. While we typically hear the cast reflect on the positive moments from filming Friends, Lisa revealed that she felt “different” from her castmates because her body type was “bigger.”

“It’s not that I felt horrible around them. Fittings were not fun, that’s for sure,” she explained on the show. “Yeah, I have a different body type. I’m just bigger and sometimes the clothes, when I’d see the show, were so sort of full of volume…it was only this one moment where I hugged both of them but there was no sleeve. It was just like, I enveloped them. I felt like this mountainous thing that swallowed them alive.”