Did Courteney Cox recently overdo it with fillers & Botox? Probably.

Just my opinion: Courteney Cox has been messing with her beautiful face for more than a decade. It started way back when she was on Friends, when suddenly her forehead stopped moving and she got that chipmunky look of some regular users of Botox and fillers. In the years since then, CC’s face has been written about and analyzed a lot, and it always makes me sad. She really was such a beautiful woman, naturally, and now she just looks so frozen and “LA.”

Anyway, these are photos of CC at the Amazon screening of Hand of God last week in LA. She posed on the red carpet with her fiancé Johnny McDaid. She looked… well, you can see for yourself. The Daily Mail’s headline was “What happened to Courteney’s face? Ms. Cox, 51, is unrecognizable with puffy cheeks at LA event making her appear as if she had work done.” Part of me hates that because while it’s noticeable that she’s overdoing the fillers and ‘Tox, it’s also not new or news. What I always wonder is… why do celebrities like Nicole Kidman and CC mess with their natural beauty in the first place, and why do they continue doing it? Don’t say Hollywood ageism – both Kidman and Cox started this crap when they were successful actresses with full careers. And why not stop? Is it because, as some claim, your face “falls” after years of Botox and fillers? Ugh.

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  1. Jayna says:

    I don’t get it. I just don’t get it.

    • net22 says:

      Now she looks like Darryl Hannah except D.H. is blonde and not brunette.

      • Size Does Matter says:

        You hit the nail on the head with that one. It’s the cheek fillers. And they do that because staying so thin has caused their faces to age prematurely? So fillers are the trump card in the battle of ass vs. face?

      • Jayna says:

        @Size Does Matter, I disagree. There’s nothing wrong with her thinner face and I don’t think it makes her look older. If anything, the odd fat face here is aging. She could do a tiny bit of filler, if she wanted, like Sharon Stone. But these women get addicted to it and stop seeing what we see. that they’ve changed their face, making it bigger than it was when they looked great years before and now shaped oddly, for that matter from too much filler.

        They lose all sense of how odd their faces are becoming from overuse of filler. Lady Gaga, only in her twenties, a few years ago, during Born This Way era, got addicted to filler. She said she kept going to some strip mall where this place did filler and kept doing it, actually addicted to it. She was getting ready to do a video, and the director told her, you need to stop the filler and let it settle before the video, because you are becoming unrecognizable. That’s how insidious it becomes. Gaga didn’t see what others saw.

        They start out using a little and look great and start doing more and more. They forget less is more.

        Nicole Kidman had a tiny face. She got into filler and developed a face she never had when younger. Recently, I noticed she let up on the filler and had a thinner face again, and she looked younger. Fat cheeks do not equal youth for these woman.

      • caitlin says:

        But these women get addicted to it and stop seeing what we see.

        That sums it up in a nutshell for me. It’s quite scary when you think about it.

    • mia girl says:

      I wonder if it could be some type of body or facial dysmorphia… Where she fixates on trees but misses what’s she doing to the entire forest.
      It’s sad.

      • Shambles says:

        Firstly, Mia Girl, that was very poetically put. Nice. Secondly, I think you hit it right on the head with “facial dysmorphia.” I honestly believe it’s a thing. I think it’s why Megan Fox messed with her already stunning face. Very sad, but not surprising in the world of the Hollyweirdos.

      • Wentworth Miller says:

        It’s so sad. Speaking specifically about the women, they start out looking like the perfect “I wish I could look like…” and slowly turn into people that we no longer recognize. I just left Snookies article and really didn’t know that it was her. Megan Fox was Gorgeous in Transformers. Now…,

      • Jayna says:

        I do believe it is a facial dysmorphia and have long thought that. They become immune to what they are doing and look in the mirror and don’t see what we see, the huge difference in what they looked like before, and become addicted to doing more.

      • lucy2 says:

        I think so too – especially with the people like Courteney, who just keep going and going. She was just starting to look like herself again and now this.
        It makes me sad, she was absolutely stunning and had no need to do this. Hopefully the puffiness will go down a little.

      • Carol says:

        I have a friend who had some work done that was necessary for a medical issue, but she said now she can see these spots where the first surgery didn’t quite get it all. She stopped at one, but it made me realize how easy it would be to get hooked.

      • JenniferJustice says:

        I agree and I think there’s a lot of it in Hollywood right now. More than there was even five years ago. Look at Christina Aguilera and what she keeps doing, Megan Fox, Melanie Griffith, Darryl Hannah, Iggy Azalia, Madonna, Jada Pinkett Smith, Nikki Minage, the list goes on and on and alot of these women are young.

    • Kitten says:

      I think she probably just recently got filled and it hasn’t settled yet. She seems to go in cycles where she has a bloated moon-face when the fillers are still fresh and then after few months she looks ok again.

      This was her at the Tribeca film festival last year. She looked fine:
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2612792/Courtney-Cox-stuns-leather-sheer-skirt-makes-directorial-debut-Just-Before-I-Go-Tribeca-premiere.html

      Numerous commenters around here have said that once you get to a certain age, you’re probably better off going with a mini face lift instead of fillers. That is, if you’re going for a dramatic look. Otherwise, it’s best to go light with fillers and just accept that you will look like a fresh-looking older person, not 25 or whatever.

      OR you could just accept the way you look and not do anything…lol..there’s always THAT option.

      • mimif says:

        I’m just gonna IPL the shit out of my skin and leave it at that. Fillers freak me out.
        How’s the needling coming, btw? Skin looks bomb on IG!

      • Crumpet says:

        I agree Kitten. Naturally, there is a good deal of swelling that goes along with filler injections and it can take up to 2 months for that to go down.

        I’m 51 and going with micro-dermabrasion (that I do myself) and facercise. I’m lucky that I inherited good genes, but I am trying to accept that I am aging and not fight it too hard. There are so many other things that require my focus besides how I look.

        BTW, I see you are back to your old self. The jorts were jarring to be honest. 😀

      • Shambles says:

        Mimif and Kit– needling and IPL? Do essplain. I have skin issues and I’m always interested in hearing about these things.

        Crumpet– IKR? The jorts had me out of my comfort zone. I felt vulnerable. I’m glad you’re back, O’Kit. 😉

      • Kitten says:

        Jorts will be back, Crumpet, don’t you worry! Yeah aging sucks. It really really sucks. You’re lucky if you have good genes though–that’s half the battle right there.

        @Mimif-My skin sucks. I’ve always had crappy skin inherited from my mom. I stopped the needling for the summer because I’m outside so much. I always wear SPF but I get scared that I’ll get discoloration etc from the sun. The needling and all the peels plus retinol—all of it makes my skin so vulnerable. I’ll never have awesome skin, sadly–most people in my family don’t. But I have to focus on the positives, like my tight ass lol

        @Shambles-The dermarolling really makes a difference with scarring, texture, and elasticity. It sucks though–it’s uncomfortable/hurty and makes my eyes water.

        I really want to try IPL but I’m so scared….is it scary, Mimif?

      • claire says:

        The problem with the fillers/cheek stuff is it pushes the eyes up in to such a weird position and a change in the eyes is always going to be hugely noticeable, and force an awareness of what else has been done to the face.

      • Kitten says:

        @Claire-I think a lot of the squinty-eye look comes from getting the tear troughs filled. That definitely “lifts” the eye closer to the brow.

      • Ginger212 says:

        I think a treatment called Ultherapy might be to blame for some of this as well. Lots of women have reported problems after, google it and see what you think (especially with regard to what it did to Uma Thurman).

    • Mytbean says:

      I think it’s the culture combined with desensitization over time. Everyone is doing it… Think of it like ear piercing or waxing or fake nails. Not pleasant while getting it done but in some social circles it’s just what you do and if you don’t those people suggest it over and over until you feel like you just might need too.

      As for why to extremes – I think it’s like how when some ppl initially go blonde it looks fine but over time, with each treatment it just gets lighter and lighter until it looks like fried straw. They are looking for that same first time drastic difference and emotional reaction. I’m betting that the person who did this to her is akin to the scissor happy stylist who loves giving every woman a pixie cut.

      • Birdix says:

        My kids got the original Parent Trap from the library and in was Parent Trap 2, an amazingly 80s campy sequel with Tom Skerritt in blue booty shorts (OPs?) as the love interest. Notable was how weird/surprising/different it looked to today’s eyes that the female lead had forehead wrinkles!

    • perplexed says:

      She said she comes from a very beautiful family, and said that her mother is very beautiful. She once said that it’s more pressure than being in Hollywood. I wonder how much of that influences her obsession with looking young (she did say that she’d try to keep looking as young as she can while it’s possible — not that I think this particular method is working).

      • Tessy says:

        No, she is not looking younger at all. She doesn’t even look like herself anymore, just some generic “housewife of…”. She would be far more beautiful if she would just leave her face alone.

        Those fillers really sound creepy, what are they made of? Do they get injected directly in and then your body absorbs the stuff? Ugh. No thanks.

  2. Kiddo says:

    Sad.

  3. Trin says:

    Overdo. Yes, yes she did.

  4. Jag says:

    She doesn’t even look like the same person to me.

    As for why they do it? My guess is that they read the negative reviews written about how they look and take it to heart, instead of realizing their natural beauty.

    It’s sad. 🙁

  5. Goats on the Roof says:

    Probably overdo it? I think you meant definitely. Courteney’s cheeks are starting to look grotesque and painful. I can’t imagine she looks in the mirror and is satisfied with what she sees. I wonder if she’s too afraid to stop after all this time?

    • Sarah says:

      Agreed. I know body image is not logical to the person looking in the mirror. Its how an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person. That being said – I feel like celebrities should have friends and staff and agents and stylists to tell them when they have gone off the deep end. With Cox, I have no doubt that Jennifer Aniston has had work done over the years, but there is good work and bad work. Courtney got bad work. If you didn’t tell me this was Courtney Cox, I wouldn’t have recognized her. So sad.

  6. Jess says:

    Oh no:( she’s starting to look like that cat woman. She’s so naturally beautiful, I don’t understand this!

    • HK9 says:

      She does look like the cat lady and she’s so beautiful-how did it get this bad? Seriously, I see nothing wrong with the usual ‘enhancements’ but how do you do that and not end up looking weird??

    • Pandy says:

      monster face basically.

  7. Krista says:

    Honestly, all that work ages her. Which is the opposite of her goal.

  8. OSTONE says:

    I feel like Courtney is like Monica in that sense, she is so type A that she cannot stop with the fillers and Botox. I mean come on, she is probably aware of the comments/articles online regarding her face. She owns a mirror. It’s truly a shame, because she is truly beautiful. And she would have aged beautifully. It’s a shame that she feels so insecure about herself that she did that to her face.

    • kibbles says:

      Not being able to stop injecting all of that toxic stuff into one’s face is an addiction. For those who haven’t read about the woman who kept injecting oil into her face until she grotesquely mutilated herself, read about it here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320679/Korean-woman-Hang-Mioku-injects-COOKING-OIL-face-refused-plastic-surgery.html

      Once you do something to change your face, it will look unnatural and unlike the real you. I believe some people try to course correct by getting more procedures to fix one thing they think is out of place, then another, and another. It doesn’t end because we all get old and with each year there will be more wrinkles and something sagging that someone obsessed with perfection will want to take care of. All of those changes will eventually make the person unrecognizable. The person might not even be aware of it until it is too late to get her natural face back.

      • holly hobby says:

        OMG that is a horrible article. 🙁

        Priscilla Presley is another victim. She didn’t know a hack was injecting oil for cars in her face. I think Larry King’s wife went to that same party but I haven’t seen a picture of Mrs. King in years.

  9. Yeses says:

    She appears to be moving deeper and deeper into Jocelyn Wildenstein territory.

    • Morgan says:

      Yes! The second picture completely looks like her around the eyes. I haven’t seen Courteney on TV for a long time but I’d be interested to see how this face looks in motion… it sure photographs terribly.

    • JennaR says:

      Oh my gosh!! I thought the exact same thing.

  10. MrsB says:

    I think it can become an addiction. I have a friend who has been using Botox since she was in her 20’s. She totally didn’t need it and I have no idea why she started it, but now in her early 30’s, I think she looks bad. She looks plastic, and so much older than her actual age.

  11. Cara says:

    What people seem to disregard in terms of “overdoing it” with plastic surgery etc, is that you tend to lose what made you attractive in the first place. With CC, it ruins her eyes, which were her most striking feature.
    It doesn’t make you look younger, either- just puffy generally. If these stars would just get a small amount, they might look refreshed- instead, they look like Pete Burns. 🙁

    • tracking says:

      Exactly. The puffed cheeks look uncomfortable, and make her eyes look receded and smaller. Crying shame.

    • boredblond says:

      They lose the unique face that was recognizable..I remember thinking the same of Goldie Hawn..that all the ‘Goldie’ was erased. I think in this case, she was very thin..and others here may idolize skeletal, but it does not age well..The bones in your face become more pronounced and you look gaunt..maybe that’s why she got some cheek fillers..just a little much..

    • Jayna says:

      Bingo. Madonna was the same way. When she started with cheek implants and filler, she lost her amazing eyes, which were her best feature, and interesting bone structure, which was gone. It’s taken years and she looks better than before and her eyes are back more prominent again, but she never has looked as good as her real face. The fillers actually make her lumpy at angles and give her a hard look. I think when she started promo for this album she saw photos of herself and totally changed it up and looked softer. It’s an improvement, but still not like the old Madonna. In her quest for youth, she aged herself and took away what was so great about her.

    • claire says:

      Anyone seen Lara Flynn Boyle lately? Horrible. Sad. And probably what happens when you stop after years of filler – you end up with hanging jowls and undefined floppy lips. It’s scary.

      • Christin says:

        And she’s only 45. Her face looked deformed in those pics.

        I remember she started messing with her face years ago, so she is a cautionary tale.

      • Tessy says:

        I haven’t seen her for ages, but the last show I saw her in she had really weirdly crooked lips. I can’t think why she was even casted looking like that, unless she got the job then went out and wrecked her lips.

      • Jonathan says:

        OMFG Claire, wish you hadn’t mentioned Lara Flynn Boyle- I just googled her 2015 pics and let out an involuntary *audible gasp* on the train. She looks like she’s several decades older than she really is.

        Ms Cox is starting to look really, really terrible- WAY older than 50 something. Holy crap- I lost a ton of weight last year from being on chemo and having an immune disorder and was considering injectables- I looked like a corpse- but I’m SO glad I didn’t start on that path.

        Hey, everbody- 3000mg of vitamin c per day is enough to make your body produce collagen again after you turn 30 (when it stops making it otherwise)….also, taking a gelatin supplement and or silica supplements will really help with your skin, hair & nails.

  12. Trin says:

    Very Jocelyn Wildenstein-esque

  13. Jenni says:

    She looks overdone at this point. She starts to remind me of Daryl Hannah and Cher.

  14. Tiffany says:

    David mentioned is past interviews that he was not a fan of her getting all that work. Her face had settled she began dating this guy and now it has started again. Why, Courtney? Why?

    • holly hobby says:

      Maybe it’s trying to impress the fiance. David didn’t care for it. How does the fiance feel?

  15. Aussie girl says:

    Wow! I thought she had over done it on the past but thought she might have learnt and taken a step back. She has always had a slender face but this is just way to puffy and she never had a fuller face. Her eyes are starting to look like that crazy cat lady ( can’t remember her name but I’m sure you all know who I’m talking about) & she has most definitely had her lips filled. She doesn’t look beautiful or like her anymore, just like a Beverly Hills house wife. They all have that same weird, manufactured plastic filled frozen face, that I find kind of freaky looking.

    • kibbles says:

      These women want to be both skinny while keeping their skin looking young, supple, and wrinkle free. The best way to do that besides healthy living (eating well, exercising, no smoking, etc) is to perhaps put on a few pounds so that the face will naturally fill out. She doesn’t need to become obese, but a lot of these women want to starve and have a super skinny body without fully understanding the negative effects that can have on one’s face. I don’t understand the thinking that getting fillers and botox is somehow better or healthier than gaining a much needed ten pounds.

      • Saywhatwhen says:

        @Kibbles, this is so true! This is the problem with the Duchess of Cambridge . Her skin is the absolute sh!t because she is undernourished, over-exercised and she smokes. But mostly (and I know this because my doctor tells me) you need good fats in order to maintain youthful skin. You must eat good fats! If you are underweight your teeth, skin, hair, nails and the whites of your eyes will tell. It really ages women when the dip below the prescribed weight for their height/age group.

        Oi, and that Amal Clooney is another undernourished one. And don’t get me started on Hungry Spice whose skin looks nasty up close.

  16. als says:

    It’s all about the money and making money off of weaknesses.
    The plastic surgeons or the people performing non-invasive cosmetic procedures that accept working on clients that are obviously troubled and wrecked with insecurities are butchers.

    When you mess with your appearance for no reason over and over again someone needs to stop you and say no.

  17. Neelyo says:

    She’s been fucking with her face for years.

  18. Tifygodess24 says:

    Well Women “can’t age” in our society. Fact whether we like it or not. So yes we need to start there. Whether someone is successful or not aging for women equals bad, ugly….. so yes there will be women trying to hold on to their youth even if it turns into a disaster. And while Courtney and Nicole are successful women in their own right, they have also been told since day one you need to look beautiful- ALWAYS. That messes with your mind. I mean im 34 and having a freaking meltdown because I am starting to notice aging and I just want it to stop – so I would imagine these women feel a million times worse than I do. Not to mention Botox and fillers are VERY common and used everyday in this country but most people don’t go overboard. So many don’t notice that someone they know got a wrinkle or two filled. People may use it but most won’t admit it. So I get why Courtney may do it but she needs to bring it down some.

    • Alex says:

      So true. I’ve watched beautiful women in my family age and lose the attention they’ve always received for their looks and it’s very difficult. Can only imagine for an actress.

    • Kitten says:

      I agree and this is something that I think about every time I see actresses like Courtney, Melanie Griffith, Kidman etc and I have a lot of empathy for them.

      Honestly, Hollywood is so brutal. Even just walking around LA, you see how much youth and beauty is coveted–plastic surgery offices everywhere and young attractive women all over the place. I think of myself as a confident person but that stuff would wear me down after a while. This industry sets women up to feel like sh*t about themselves.

      • Liberty says:

        This. It’s sad. She was so pretty and….it’s sad.

      • Saywhatwhen says:

        So then they should cultivate other interests so they have more dimension to their person. Physical beauty (at least the things we prize as humans) disappear with age. If any of these actresses have other things to recommend them I as consumer would not care what they look like. This culture of narcissism is being encouraged. When I was growing up all I heard from my parents was beauty is skin deep, your youth ends in your early twenties and what will you do with the rest of your life…you must study hard, sit and read, learn music and cultivate relationship with people. It was annoying but now I am happy they hammered that message home.

      • Kitten says:

        @Saywhatwhen-Your parents’ message was the right one but the problem here is that actor’s interest is acting, and acting is an industry that by design, places great emphasis on appearances. It doesn’t mean that they don’t have other hobbies, but what do you do when the success of your profession hinges on how young you look or how pretty you are? It’s easy to say “work on your inner self” but much harder in practice to shut out the people who are telling you that you’re not young enough or pretty enough or good enough to succeed at your job.

        Anyway, this is one of MANY reasons why I wouldn’t want to be in the entertainment industry.

      • Jayna says:

        But the problem is Kitten, they don’t just try to look fresher. They get addicted to these things. All of those people have gone many years now seeing in the press and by thousands of posters like us saying, What have you done to your face? You are messing up your face. What they are doing didn’t help. It messed up their face and became unmovable from all the filler and botox, plasticy. Yet, they keep doing it even after being the topic of articles about it. Before they started with all that stuff, they were considered beautiful.

        They had more lines at 30 when they were young and beautiful than any of them did at 45 when they went over the rails with this stuff, filler in their smile lines. I call that some kind of dysmorphia and addiction. Nicole in her 30s had a small face and very subtle plumped up lips. Remember Moulin Rouge? Stunning. Fast forward to nearing 40s and her lips get bigger and bigger and bigger and then the filler with a bigger face than she had her whole life, too much botox. it makes no sense.

      • Kitten says:

        @Jayna-I think they get used to how things look when they first get filled and are completely line-free and then after it settles, they feel like it doesn’t look as good. So they’re caught in this cycle trying to “out-do” whatever they did last time–more filler, more ‘tox, etc. I’m not sure that it’s dysmorphia, but I think the constant alterations to their face makes them lose perspective of what they originally looked like.

        Ugh, this is a word salad….sorry…do you get what I’m (very inarticulately) saying though?

        I think this is the danger of focusing so much on your appearance, having a sh*t ton of money to blow on whatever procedure you want, and living in a world where people look like freaky aliens (Hwood) and plastic surgery is the norm.

        …and while it may be a combination of things that make women do this to themselves, I do think systemic issues in Hollywood largely contribute to that.

      • Jayna says:

        @Kitten, I agree with what you are saying.

      • Nancy says:

        Agree, but they set themselves up as well. It’s disgusting how you see these old fart actors with twenty or thirty something women as partners in movies, because what’s hot about an older women. Ask Susan Sarandon, Meryl, even Jennifer. I could name more I’m sure, but after a long work day, I could probably use a filler myself. Fortunately I don’t want to look like the Joker, Somebody above named the victims of abuse, but I didn’t see Pricilla Presley. She was so gorgeous and turned herself into a freak like the rest of these woman. Ageism in America is sad…..especially when you look around much of the world where old age is respected and revered. Here it’s all about how you look and if you’re over 40, above a size 6 or 8, then you’re yesterday’s news.

  19. Mimz says:

    This makes me sad. I loved Cougar Town, and some seasons she looked great when she’d lay off the ‘Tox, but then a few other seasons she was almost unbearable to watch. And those puffy cheeks make her eyes disappear.
    What a shame.

    ps. still love you Court.

    • Ncboudicca says:

      I know “sad” is the right way to describe how I feel. She’s such a beautiful woman, she didn’t need to do this. Keeping fingers crossed that the work “settles” down soon. I’m wondering if she got this work done for Aniston’s wedding?

  20. Amy Tennant says:

    NOOOOOOOOOO!!! Courtney, you’re starting to look like a Real Housewife!!! You’re better than this, sweetie. Maybe one of your Friends can give you advice on how to do this subtly. (Is it true that once you start ‘toxing regularly you can’t ever stop?)

  21. Alex says:

    A lot of derms overfill to lift the bottom half of the face. By doing this you can stave off a full-on facelift for a few years. My friend is a cosmetic dermatologist and she tells me all the details/secrets. She also injects the hollows below the cheeks, in the temples, and around the mouth – all to lift the face from sagging. Also when fillers are first injected they attract a good deal of fluid/water to the area which lessens over time so newly injected fillers generally cause the obvious bloat face.

  22. Merritt says:

    It is sad. Not long after she and David Arquette broke up, she was on a talk show and her face face just looked fragile. As though it would fall apart if you touched it. It made me feel sad for her. And really sad for anyone who thinks that this type of work on the face is needed. I think there is a lot of pressure to stay youthful and it leads to this.

  23. Loopy says:

    Ugh. Why is she doing this to herself? It is amazing how all of these women who continually mess with their faces result in looking almost indistinguishable from one another. They all end up with that same taut, beady-eyed duck face, like the’ve been modeled from one particular prototype. Whatever interesting, unique features they were naturally gifted with that set them apart are now gone. For a second when first looking at this post I thought it was the current and altered face of Megan Fox.

  24. Kaye says:

    Maybe my eyes are going, but she doesn’t look that bad to me. I think she looks like herself.

  25. debb says:

    Unfortunately the bigger their faces/cheeks/foreheads get, the smaller their eyes become.

  26. M.A.F. says:

    Does Botoxing affect your eyes that much or did she get work done on those as well? I never noticed it while Friends was on but after the show went off the air is when I noticed the change. Definitely not the woman in the Bruce Springsteen video anymore.

  27. Jessica says:

    Oh look, she’s finally reached that point where she’s completely unrecognisable. In a year or two she’s going to be fully in Jocelyn Wildenstein territory.

    It’s such a shame. She was a beautiful woman, she would have aged very well naturally. Now she just looks so overworked she actually appears at least a good decade older than she is. This level of work is associated with women in their late 60’s and 70’s, not early 50’s.

    I wish she and David Arquette had been able to figure things out. Whatever his faults and demons, he seemed to help her a lot with her own issues. She was at her best when she was with him, a natural beauty. As soon as they separated she went crazy with the tox and fillers, got a really bad boob job and for a while there she got painfully thin again.

  28. Lindy79 says:

    That old saying relating to wanting to be thin, at some stage you need to choose between your ass and your face.
    I’ll always choose face, it’s the one people will see more of.

    Unless you’re Kim Kardashian.

    • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

      Lol. I’m with you.

    • Jaded says:

      Yeah…it was Catherine Deneuve who said ““After a certain age, a woman has to choose between her fanny and her face.” Ironic because she’s had loads of work done. But I’ve got 10 extra lbs on me than I did 15 years ago but I’ll keep them thank you very much as it does make ones face look younger.

  29. meme says:

    Calling Megan Fox…this is you in 20 years.

    I just don’t understand how these women think they look good. I wonder if her daughter ever asks her why she looks so different? CC was a beautiful woman and now she’s a mess.

  30. doofus says:

    the more of these results I see on celebs, I’m reminded of that scene in “Escape from LA” with Bruce Campbell as the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills…

  31. Grant says:

    So sad. She really was beautiful in Family Ties and most of Friends.

  32. Josefa says:

    Well, put yourself in their shoes. You start your career with everyone telling you how beautiful you are. Your beauty gets you roles, magazine covers, and admiration from everyone. Then the years pass and another equally beautiful actress appears. And your face has changed, slightly, but it has changed. And you know it will change more in the future. And you know that face is the main reason of your success.

    It sucks because I think we can all agree CC would look 832992 times better in her natural state, but it’s easy to judge when our looks are not scrutinized by anyone with internet connection.

    • Jayna says:

      People say that. But these women who overdo it have issues themselves. Every one of them that overdoes it gets talked about, less work. Meg Ryan lost her career because she hated her face and changed it. She changed what she looked like from when younger.

      Then you have Julianne Moore, Rachel Weisz, Marisa Tomei, Diane Lane, on and on, being called beauties and aging beautifully and working. They look fresher and younger than the overbotoxed, overfilled, fish lip women. Laura Linney still looks amazing. They probably do little things to keep them fresh looking. They just don’t overdo or become obsessed.

      I stopped seeing a lot of Nicole’s movies because she ruined her face and it was disconcerting. She was only 40 when she started it do it. And she was beautiful before she started. What was the reason to blow her lips up even more and get fat cheeks when she never had fat cheeks before? She lost what was so beautiful on her.

      It’s one thing to do a little here and there to keep fresh, but these women get so obsessed they change what they used to look like when younger even. I can’t blame that on society telling them to look young. They don’t even look like they did. They blow up their lips and have fat cheeks they never had when younger and change their look. They overbotox. Their faces don’t move like they used to. What’s younger about that?

      • Bridget says:

        It isn’t just “younger” per se – it’s not only having the ability to correct flaws, but also an aesthetician/doctor that will happily point out the flaws while you’re sitting in their chair and offer to correct them. Not to mention that this is what almost everyone in Los Angeles does; there’s a reason why they call it “LA Face”, because everyone has that same look. This is what people talk about every day, what they do. It gives people a different mindset on beauty and aging.

        And I’m just going to point out one thing that no one else has: maybe Nicole Kidman and Courtney Cox like the work they’ve had done and think it looks good.

  33. Crumpet says:

    I think she just recently got fillers, and what we are mostly seeing is swelling. Obviously, this is not the end game of what she wants to look like. In 2 months or so, she will be looking much better.

    • kibbles says:

      Unless I could hide away for 2 months until my face settles down I would never do anything like this. I would be embarrassed to walk out in public. Also, it’s not as if this is just a one time deal where she has to look bloated for 2 months and never do this again. We know Cox has been injecting her face with filler for years and she will do it again. I think at this point she is addicted and won’t be willing to stop here.

  34. bns says:

    People like her, Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Cindy Crawford, etc who try way too hard to look perfect and are fucking up their naturally beautiful faces always come off as desperate and unhappy.

  35. Paloma says:

    This look is not new for her; cheek fillers and her upper lip seems stretched to me, probably some sort of face tightening.

  36. Alexa says:

    . . . I think she looks good . . .

  37. Mrs. Darcy says:

    What happens when the fillers evaporate (or whatever it is they do), does it make the skin sag? I know skin loses elasticity over time, so maybe it’s a vicious cycle where you start to look worse when they go down so you have no choice? I have super chubby cheeks that even if I lost weight I probably would still never have a thin face so that’s one thing – I don’t have Ms.Cox’s cheekbones though, I do think she could have aged beautifully naturally, she has the good bone structure. The trouble with women who were truly beautiful getting work done is they never look as good as they did naturally and probably would have if they had aged naturally. Plus as Lainey always point out, the ones who mess with the lips look much more fake. I totally understand the urge, even though I know it can look bad my only temptation so far to have anything done is my lips. Seriously though she should look better in time, she has never been great at timing her work so it doesn’t show up.

  38. happy girl says:

    She is one of the prettiest girls in Hollywood. Why would she do this to herself? She has stopped looking “stunning” for quite a while…she just looks bloated and weird. We have a family friend who has been filling her face with everything there is for about 25 years. She’s very open about it and also claims once you cross a certain point, you can’t stop.

  39. BrandyAlexander says:

    I saw an interview with her a few years ago (I think it was on Conan?) and she said she really struggles with getting older and was freaked at the thought of turning 50. It’s pretty clear that is what has caused her to turn to such extremes. She’s still beautiful, I wish she was a little more comfortable with herself though.

  40. holly hobby says:

    These pictures make me sad! 🙁

  41. mer1 says:

    She said when she was married to David Arquette, prior to all this, when asked about aging, that he did not want her to do anything to her face. And she said, that might just have to be our first secret. (or something like that)

  42. Jayna says:

    Sofia Vergara said, “L.A. is crazy. The women all look the same now,’ she told Esquire magazine.
    ‘That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they’re fooling? It doesn’t make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.”

  43. elle says:

    She looks like Amy Brenneman.

  44. Dirty Martini says:

    For the love of god, woman, stop. While never say never, I do not getting messing with your face like this. Botox is made from botulism, right? PASS.

  45. Anne says:

    People in Hollywood need to realise that there’s nothing wrong with having winkles

  46. Nancy says:

    She destroyed her true beauty. Of course she would have aged but could have done a more discreet job of trying to glue herself together. Her true beauty started to fly out the window during the last season of Friends and now she is smack dab in the middle of the “worst” list of cosmetic surgery. Jennifer did a much better job of maintaining her looks by her continuous work outs and skin care and water drinking. Amazing what hydration does….not to mention genetics. Oh well Courteney, I knew you when…..

  47. TOPgirl says:

    Holy shit, what happened to her face! These celebs must all go to the same doctor.

  48. Anastasia says:

    I swear to all that’s holy, I’m never fucking with my face. I’m just a year younger than her, and people mistake me for being in my early 30s all the time. Not bragging, I think the same would be true for her if she had left her face alone!

  49. YeahYeahYeah says:

    Oh Courtney.

  50. I'm With The Band says:

    Courteney is naturally stunning without fillers and Botox. She don’t need ’em.

  51. parissucksliterally says:

    It breaks my heart to look at her. 10 lbs, Courtney. All you need is to gain 10 lbs, and you won’t need to do this to yourself….. sigh….

  52. Julesj says:

    I worked with her when she was on Family Ties. Gary David Goldberg said he cast her as Alex Keaton’s girlfriend because “she was the most beautiful girl in the world”. And she was. Just jaw dropping gorgeous and sweet. Makes you wonder. Wtf?

  53. Ewissa says:

    Im 34 this year and found that got really bad frown wrinkles (maybe coz of lack of sleep with newborn??) And quite visible laughing line (one from nose to your lip)and wanted to use some botox and fillers but now I really dont know….ppl like Courney who become ugly by overdoing them really put me off to go and get it done.
    My friend she is only 28 using botox in forehead since 26 now she returnerd from holidays and her face omg!!! She doesnt look like herself anymore.Her face is weird and eyebrows she is looking durprised all the times and you can see her skin is sooo tight like ith hurts when she try to smile…then I was like no thank you.Better have my frawn and wrinkles….and still look like human