Courteney Cox:
I hate my body

 

     Gorgeous Friends star Courteney Cox thrills millions of guys each week with her seductive good looks-but she absolutely despises her face and body and is insanely jealous of shapely co star Jennifer Aniston.

     Courteney says she has big "hippo hips," a flat butt and thin lips-and she complains about crow´s feet as well as limp, stringy hair. And it dosn´t stop there! The raven-haired beauty, who plays Monica Geller, cringes when she looks in the mirror and sees freckles she calls "measles."

"I´ve got hippo hips, thin lips-and my teeth are too big!"

     Disgusted with her appearance, the insecure actress told a friend she resembles "an outcast from ´Star Trek.´" "The worst is that compared to Jennifer. I look like the sad, ugly stepsister. No matter how much lipstick I use, my lips are always razor thin. My teeth are way too big for me face, and I have so many freckles that it looks like I have a bad case of measles." Courteney was green with envy when Jennifer´s hairdo become a craze that swept the nation. So the jealous actress sacked the show´s hairdresser to give her an equally stylish hairdo-but when she looked at the result, her heart hit the floor. "I asked for a Demi Moore, but instead I got the Dudley Moore," the disgusted performer told her co-star. The 32-year-old star´s obsession with her appearance has become fodder for on-set jokes. And no one loves to rib her more than Matt Perry, who plays witty Chandler Bing. revealed the friend. "Matt walked up behind me her and started prancing around her like a penguin-making fun of how big-hipped Courteney walks. "She shouted, "Matt, stop it! You know how self-conscious I am about my hippo hips.´" When Courteney and Matt were doing a scene in a kitchen, the actress accidentally kept dropping cooking utensils-and Matt seized the opportunity to tease her. "During a break in filming, he got hold of a skeleton prop, took off it´s hand and shoved it up his own shirt sleeves," revealed the friend. "Matt then began tapping his skeleton hand on the kitchen counter and saying, Hi, I´m Courteney Cox. I´m always dropping things because they slip through my bony, skinny fingers. "Everyone cracked up. Courteney was a good sport. She tries to take the jokes in stride." The actress, "hates the way her legs expand at the thigh region-especially because she thinks she has bird legs from the thigh down," added an insider. She is also obsessed with staying young-and is even considering plastic surgery, as the ENQUIRER recently revealed. The insider disclosed, "Her closest friends have a difficult time understanding how she put herself down because all of Hollywood thinks she´s a beauty. "Whenever she looks in the mirror she makes sure she´s wearing her "I only see ugly" glasses. Like the way people with anorexia think they are fat. But to her fans, she´s a perfect ´10´"

Written by SUZANNE ELY
and MARC CETNER

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