Courteney Cox: ‘I’ve had all my fillers dissolved. I’m as natural as I can be’

2016 MTV Video Music Awards

Courteney Cox covers the latest issue of New Beauty. To me, Cox still looks like she’s doing sh-t to her face, but in this interview, she claims that she’s stopped using fillers and she’s as “natural as I can be.” Which isn’t the same as actually being natural, although I’ll give her credit for talking about this openly. So many women do too much, and it reeks of insecurity. Cox wears that on her sleeve – she’s talked openly about knowing that she did too much and how afraid she was of looking old. Here are some highlights from New Beauty:

She wants to have another baby: Cox, 53, reveals that she “would love to have a baby now” with her boyfriend, Johnny McDaid. “I mean, I could carry someone else’s egg. I may be one of the older people doing it, but I would love to, with Johnny that is. I know it’s crazy, but I would.”

The age difference between herself & McDaid (he’s 40): “External beauty isn’t even on his radar. I used to worry about the age difference, but I don’t think it matters. He appreciates beauty, but it’s deeper than that. It’s deeper than that for me too, but luckily I find him gorgeous and extremely sexy.”

Her 13-year-old daughter Coco “loves makeup” and RuPaul’s Drag Race.
“She thinks it’s beautiful artistry and she’s really good at it. Luckily, at school she can only wear mascara, but on the weekends you would think she’s going out to a rager at 2 a.m. – eyeliner, mascara, highlighter on her cheeks … I know some people think I should rein her in with the makeup, but it’s a form of self-expression. As long as she’s not sexualizing herself, it’s really just what makes her feel good. Sometimes I do wish her shorts were longer — I’m not going to lie. But I want to keep an open relationship with her. I care more about what she’s watching than what she’s putting on her face.”

Dissolving fillers: “I’ve had all my fillers dissolved. I’m as natural as I can be. I feel better because I look like myself. I think that I now look more like the person that I was. I hope I do. Things are going to change. Everything’s going to drop. I was trying to make it not drop, but that made me look fake.”

She’s a good eater: “I’m a really good eater. About four years ago, I found out I have something called a MTHFR gene mutation, which dictates how my body methylates. I suffered miscarriages, my dad died of a really rare cancer, and depression runs in my family, which made my doctor think I should get this gene checked out. I discovered that I have the worst version of the mutation and my body doesn’t methylate the way it’s supposed to. Once I found out how I could absorb nutrients and protect myself from toxins, my whole life shifted.”

[From Us Weekly]

That gene mutation information is very interesting, and I looked it up – it’s a real thing and doctors are still learning more about it every day. Does the acronym stand for “motherf–ker” though? That’s my question. As for being as natural as she can be… I accept Cox’s process. I think she was in a panic about aging and she fully admits that. I think she’s eased up on a lot of it, but probably still gets Botox and some stuff like that. As for Coco loving RuPaul and makeup… that’s amazing. And she’s right, it’s best to pick your battles with a 13-year-old. It’s likely just a phase and it’s relatively harmless and fun.

64th Annual BMI Pop Awards

Photos courtesy of WENN, cover courtesy of New Beauty.

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  1. Esmom says:

    After reading about Beckinsale and Madonna, the “age gap” between her and Johnny feels like nothing, lol.

    That cover, though, eek! It literally made me jump when I refreshed my page. She looks like a demon. But I give her credit for owning her face debacle and trying to step away from the eternal youth madness.

    • Nancy says:

      You always see the bright side Esmon. How rare that quality is these days. 🙂

      • littlestar says:

        I’ve always loved reading Esmom’s comments too. I feel like her kindness and empathy just shines through her comments somehow!

      • Esmom says:

        Aw, ladies, you make me blush! So nice to get some CB love…believe me the feeling is mutual!

    • Rachel says:

      I think the cover is a photoshopping problem, rather than her face. She looks much more like her pre-effing with her face self in the second picture.

      • CynicalAnn says:

        I agree. I saw pics of her yesterday on DM and she looked back to her old self and not puffy. This cover either looks like an old pic of her, or it’s photoshopped.

      • Esmom says:

        I agree, I blame the magazine for making her look so odd. Her eyes look, as I said, demonic and I know they don’t in real life, lol.

      • DystopianDance says:

        I have a naturally beautiful friend who did forehead botox, and her brows sort of fell forward, neanderthal style, kind of like the above magazine photo of CC. The woman I know also acquired the long joker style lips, and I don’t understand that motivation either. Robyn Wright seems to have aged beautifully, though I’d say she works out like a demon rather than injects like one- and maybe that’s the lesson here. We will look and feel better if we combat age with activity rather than the needle!

    • CynicalAnn says:

      I think it must be so hard to have been famous for your looks as a teen and young woman-and as you age it’s kind of shocking. I’m no great beauty, but even I at 50 sometimes catch myself in the mirror and think -ack! where did you go? I think you just need to come to grips with it-if botox and fillers really did bring back your 30 year old face- that would be amazing. But that’s not at what happens.

      • DystopianDance says:

        I’ve come to understand feminism in old age, and for me, it’s cosmetic surgery for the mind. I see myself and others as beautiful in terms of accomplishments and resilience. That old judge-ness might never fully fade, but it’s been overhauled and is a process.

      • CynicalAnn says:

        @DystopianDance-I love that mindset. I’m going to work on it.

    • S says:

      This is a good example of when age difference really is, ‘Good for you,’ with zero shade. She didn’t start dating him when he was a teen/young adult (looking at you Sam Taylor-Johnson) and they got together when both were established adults. I think some people work well with a large age difference; that they are, for whatever reason, more emotionally connected to people significantly older or younger than they are. Or at least that one person.

      Also, it’s often as much about timing — where you are in your lives when you meet — as the numerical age gap. 40 & 53? Who cares! 18 & 32? Ewww.

  2. Fran says:

    I think it stands for the Mother Father gene but yeah, mother f*cker is often used in its place.

    • Mieke1963 says:

      It stands for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase.

    • Vizia says:

      What Mieke1963 said. Like many other things coming to light as a result of the Human Genome Project, it’s not thoroughly researched yet. But the research is promising, and a lot of researchers and clinicians are working on treatments and mitigations. And as a clinician I find it convenient that it lends itself to motherfucker. 😀

  3. Neelyo says:

    ‘I’m as natural as I can be’

    That’s a smart quote because it acknowledges that there are certain things she’s done that won’t dissolve, like whatever she did to her mouth.

    • Kitten says:

      Ha! Yeah that’s true. She definitely looks better, but you’re right that she’s still not 100% natural.

      I have nothing but sympathy for women in Hollywood when it comes to the aging process. It’s hard enough to be a “regular” woman in this age-obsessed society, much less a celebrity who’s appearance is constantly scrutinized.

      I wish I could be the type of woman that embraces getting older but I’ve come to accept that’s just not me. I guess I’m vain AF but my goal is always to look like the youngest version of *me* that I can at age 38.

      • Jegede says:

        So true Kitt.

        Courtney Cox was/is beautiful; the dark hair and aquamarine eyes combo was striking.

        She admitted she was raised in a family were looks are EVERYTHING. Beauty queens, pageant regulars e.t.c
        And when you’re raised that way and lose that one thing, there’s probably a feeling of nothingness and worthlessness.

        Heather Locklear is another one who apparently needed to see a shrink when she lost her looks.

      • Kali says:

        Oh kitten enjoy being 38! Young and beautiful are quite different things. Enjoy!

      • perplexed says:

        She once said that her family was tougher than Hollywood when it came to beauty.

      • pinetree13 says:

        Me too Kitten. I am really, really, really struggling with losing my looks and I’m only in my mid-thirties. I actually even went to a therapy appointment for it. The problem is I didn’t really realize that the attention and better treatment were because of it and now I’m noticing subtle changes in how people treat me. I’m trying very hard not to care but it’s so, so, so, so, so, hard. It’s funny my parents never gave a crap about looks whatsoever and I thought I wasn’t vain but this year has made me realize that I clearly am.

      • Elizabeth Rose says:

        I think it’s so incredibly hard because as women, we are taught from a very young age, whether explicit or implicit, that our worth and value is closely tied to our looks. I too am struggling with the aging process and the fear that I will become invisible. It’s such a sad commentary on our society that we’re made to feel this way over our biology, that we’re made to feel as though we need to fight our biology.

    • Nancy says:

      Yep Neelyo. Her mouth is rather Jokerish looking. Aww, I like Monica. Maybe this malfunctioning gene messed with her brain, making her covet youth, like David and Johnny and her fixation on looking young, even wanting a child at 53. It couldn’t have been easy to own up to what everyone already knew. Just like the others in the bad surgery club, there’s nothing she can do but go on and live her life. @Kitten: Damn girl, 38 is still on the light side of 40. I haven’t noticed any hideous changes yet…..I think for some people, like Courteney, they see a different image when they look in the mirror.

    • NotSoSocialButterfly says:

      Don’t forget the botox everywhere.

    • Lookit says:

      She looks so much better though! I have lots of friends who have fillers ad they all look like they have the mumps!

      • tigerlily says:

        She does look much better. A lot “softer”. In my opinion though, she looked her best the first couple seasons of Friends. Her hair was shorter and fuller and it suited her face far more than the stick straight long black hair. And I also thought she looked better with a bit more weight on but in Hollywood that doesn’t go over well I guess. She looked gorgeous in the Dancing in the Dark video with Bruce Springsteen….

  4. Birdix says:

    I have a 13-year-old and it’s tricky. So many of her classmates post provocative photos of themselves in bikinis on insta and get hundreds of likes and feel validated and appreciated. And there’s so much hunger for any kind of validation at that age.

    • Kitten says:

      At only 13?!?!
      O_O

      Wow…I do not envy parents these days. So happy that I didn’t grow up in the age of social median and the like.

      • Erinn says:

        When I was 14 I remember other teens getting in trouble for that kind of thing. This would have been 2004. It’s only gotten worse since then – I can’t imagine.

      • Ange says:

        I did a sports trip for a group of under 14 girls recently. They were all from quite wealthy families and their instagrams were insane – they looked like little instamodels in every shot and spent half their day going through it and discussing everyone else’s fancy photos. I am so glad I’m not raising kids into that.

    • JustJen says:

      Yep! I have a 14 yr old and a lot of girls she knows post pics sticking their chest or butt out. She even pointed it out to me (like that was necessary)…I’m just glad it annoys her like it does me.

      • LaMaitresse says:

        I grew up in the 80’s, so no tech, just Polaroid cameras lol! I do remember in the summer, us kids hanging around the pool, trying on make up, sneaking a bit of booze from our parents ridiculously well stocked liquor cabinet (my mother was probably lunching with friends) posing stupidly in our bikinis like Kim Alexis or Paulina, or trolling the neighbourhood looking like clowns in the make up on bikes for the gorgeous 16 year old boys, so it wasn’t quite as bad back then but almost! Just not digital, or else my friends and I were feral!

    • lucy2 says:

      Ugh, that makes me sad. Those girls are likely not receiving much validation for the stuff that matters.
      I am so glad I didn’t grow up with social media.

    • CynicalAnn says:

      This is when I hate social media. At that age you feel awkward, gawky, hormonal, trying to bridge from childhood into teenager and young adult. That was the worst time of my life. I can’t even imagine if we’d had social media. Ugh.

    • DystopianDance says:

      I’m doing my best to educate my son, so he loves the person who suits him, versus the best bikini body. There is a trend with bikini girls on boy’s gear- i.e.- skateboards, snowboarding gloves etc. I told him these images hurt women because it portrays only one version of “acceptable” and that’s white and very thin w large breasts. I wish I had a manual of how to raise a feminist man at age appropriate stages!

  5. HadToChangeMyName says:

    She looks sooo much better now.

  6. Miss M says:

    MTHFR= methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase

  7. slowsnow says:

    It’s like they’re trolling her.
    She looks about 70 yo on the cover with the name “New Beauty” (now that she’s back to her old beauty and all) and the the pertinent question “can you really stop ageing?” topped by “The secret to looking younger”.
    And in all of this, Cox explains how she “went too far and what she did to fix it”. Which apparently was bc she was surfing the wave of a society with such mixed messages? Non?
    The way she fixed it? Why by getting a boyfriend for whom “external beauty” is not on his radar.
    Talk about a schizophrenic cover and itw…

  8. S says:

    I found this really interesting. She really has turned into the Joker, and it was even more noticeable compared to someone like Aniston who has clearly had more modest, and better, work done. To hear Cox acknowledge what we could all see so clearly is, at least, something, especially the part about most people reassuring her it looked good (narrator’s voice over: it didn’t).

    I’m not sure I buy the “no fillers” story, looking at her face on the cover, but Cox has a history of saying some weird stuff over the years about her body that always made me think she had, perhaps, more insecurity issues than even your average actress. Calling herself a “fat and dumpy size six” before Friends and saying that “at some point you have to decide between your ass or your face [looking good].”

    Hopefully she’ll cool it with the surgeries, too 1) cause she doesn’t need them & they only make her look worse and 2) because as innocent as I agree a 13-year-old experimenting with makeup is, watching her mom struggle with, and put so much focus on, adjusting her looks isn’t the healthiest way to grow into being a woman.

    • nemera34 says:

      She has said she was or is very insecure about Aging. She had a lot of problems with the age difference between her and David. I remember an interview on some show with the 2 of them and she said he was younger and would never understand what it was like for her as she aged. That it was easier for her. He shook his head and said she needed to stop letting it bother her because he didn’t care. But her face just showed such fear and self doubt. I think she is just insecure. And pumping stuff in your face is not going to fix that.

  9. ImAlreadyGone says:

    I think linking a gene mutation – on a gene that hasn’t been thoroughly researched – is dangerous. I understand the need to have misfortune explained away because that makes it easier to accept, but there isn’t science to support her linking this mutation to her miscarriages or her dad’s cancer. Doing so becomes dangerous when one has a platform. I’m not calling her GOOP or Jenny McCarthy, but I would love more caution from celebrities on these matters.

    • Veronica says:

      I do think celebrities need to watch what kind of misinformation they put out there, but in this case, the mutation has been linked to fetal defects and miscarriage in woman with dual copies of the gene. She isn’t saying it’s necessarily causal, but her family history made her doctor suspect a correlation. Not the worst case of celebrity MD by a long shot.

    • Prim says:

      My son’s in utero brain injury is linked to my MTHFR mutation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4338403/

      Any raising of awareness about MTHFR is a positive thing.

    • Prim says:

      Also a link between MTHFR and the “rare” cancer three of my immediate family have died from:

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23679298

    • ImAlreadyGone says:

      I’m not attacking anyone’s personal history and experiences, but the current research uses language like “may” and “might” and so those links are still being researched. That’s not to discount any medical issues of you or your family members, but in order for something to be fact, there has to be a lot of research.

      • Prim says:

        “A direct correlation between higher tHcy levels and C677T and A1298C MTHFR polymorphisms has been reported in some populations of preterm or full term newborns with neonatal encephalopathy (NE) following perinatal hypoxic-ischemic (HI) insult”

        “Direct correlation”

        This is a gossip site so not really the place for me to be discussing my son’s brain injury, but for people like me any discussion in the media about MTHFR is beneficial. I’m not alone in having a brain injured child due to my genetics. I hope in future less people will experience what I’ve gone through because of increased awareness of MTHFR, and if it takes Courteney Cox to do it, I’m happy.

      • Veronica says:

        Medicine is constantly evolving, though, so that’s an iffy territory. We are currently treating people with drugs whose MOA is undefined but which we know works. I think there’s a difference between being confident in your willful ignorance (aka Jenny McCarthy) and saying, “I had to change a few things based on a recommendation from my doctor regarding an emerging gene of study that I have.” She’s not saying it’s a magical answer to a very general set of problems, but a unique discovery found with a certified medical practioner with proper testing that may have been a source of health deficiencies in her family. Really, she’s not even making a causal argument – just suggesting that her family medical history led to a doctor’s decision to test.

      • jwoolman says:

        Researchers always use “may” and “might” liberally. It’s ingrained in us at an early age in our scientific training… The links may be quite likely and worth assuming for practical prophylactic purposes, but the language used is unlikely to become absolute in the near future (or ever). We always deal in probabilities and statistical uncertainty, and the human body is an extremely complex system. Studies are always going to be limited and complicated to interpret by their very nature.

  10. nemera34 says:

    From what she said I gather that he didn’t like all the facial enhancements. I don’t know if “natural as I can be” is accurate. but perhaps it is. Once you put that kind of foreign element in your body it will never ever be the same. You can stop; but you can’t undo the unnatural changes. So in part she is right. But her face will never be what it was genetically going to be.

  11. Merritt says:

    She looks better than she did previously. But this just shows why you should not succumb to the pressure of messing with your face.

  12. lucy2 says:

    The magazine cover looks crazy photoshopped, but in the bottom photo she’s definitely looking better and much more like she used to. I’m glad, and I hope she’s in a good place with it all. I can’t imagine the pressures women face in Hollywood, especially those fighting to continue their career, and those who were always known for great beauty.

    • NotSoSocialButterfly says:

      Agree 100%. Disturbingly ‘shopped cover. She looks great in the photo with her S.O.

    • S says:

      Yes, hugely ironic that they used a picture that buffed & smoothed her to an almost inhuman (wax figure) degree to accompany an article about her letting her face be more natural.

  13. shaboo says:

    they look like brother and sister. It’s kinda weird.

    • minx says:

      Yes, I’ve always thought that.

    • Nancy says:

      Kind of like mother and son. My young teenaged daughter loves to watch Friends. I find myself watching behind her sometimes, lol. The other day it was the one where Ross was to marry Emily and Monica was sitting there and some dude said, you must have been a teenager when you had him, thinking she was Ross’ mom! How did Courteney feel back then I wonder. Art imitating life.

    • pinetree13 says:

      I admit that was my first thought as well. They do look alike.

    • TrixC says:

      I think her boyfriend looks like Daniel Day Lewis

  14. InVain says:

    I give her a lot of credit for being open about this. She’s being a hell of a lot more honest than most would. I’ve always had a soft spot for her since Friends…it’s clear she didn’t take to aging well. Hell, I even struggle with it. As a woman, with so much social pressure out there to “look perfect” it’s hard not to. But in Hollyweird? I couldn’t even imagine. Methinks Johnny is good for her self-acceptance and awareness. Didn’t they break up before? Rumor was that he wasn’t down with all of her enhancements or addiction to them?

  15. Veronica says:

    It stands for Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutation, apparently. Reading through the reports on it, essentially what it does is result in large amounts of homocysteine in the blood and urine. It’s not directly correlated to heat disease (associated but not a mechanism of failure), but it is recommended that women eat diets rich in folate and B-vitamins to avoid neural tube defect in pregnancy. Interesting stuff.

    Reminds of the article the WaPo released on the rise of Alpha-Gal syndrome due to ticks. The body is a fascinating machine, and we have barely scratched the surface of its complexity.

    • NotSoSocialButterfly says:

      Are you referring to the protein ubiquitous in meats that people develop anaphylaxis to after a lone star tick bite? Another product of climate change… these ticks once only limited to the southwest ( particularly Texas, hence the name) are now spreading- last summer we rented a home on Madeleine Island in Lake Superior, and our daughter’s friend picked one up at a state park beach. O_o !!

      • Veronica says:

        Yeah, apparently doctors are seeing a gross uptick (hah!) in cases. It isn’t being tracked by the CDC yet, but I won’t be surprised if it’s added soon. That’s a severely limiting disease.

    • ExhistingIsExhausting says:

      I had the alpha-gal allergy! I contracted back in 2011, so it was not nearly as well known. I’m glad it’s getting more press- i had about a year and a half before i was diagnosed where i was either in a benadryl haze or breaking out in hives

  16. thaisajs says:

    I read this magazine once, because it’s offered thru my Texture subscription. It felt like literally the entire magazine was about plastic surgery and fillers and stuff. New Beauty indeed.

  17. LadyT says:

    I’m very interested in what every one else thinks of this new MTHFR diagnosis that been in the news lately for personal reasons, not me but close relation. Very real or new fad for lack of a better word? Treatment involves a lot of expensive supplements not covered by FDA or insurance.

  18. tracking says:

    I wonder if the cover photo is older than the snap below. It really does look like her old “filler” face, not just photoshop. Aside from the weird shape, the texture is strange (overly aggressive laser resurfacing?) and the very noticeable fill under her beautiful eyes makes them look smaller and deeper set. I think I read somewhere recently she now sees the same derm as Aniston. In the snap, she looks similar in terms of the quality and restraint of the work. She looks lovely!

  19. Katherine says:

    Oh man, I need to learn to pick my battles as well

  20. Jess says:

    I saw this somewhere yesterday and thought she looks so much better now. I feel bad for her, she got serious backlash at one point, but she did look crazy fake and filled. She’s always been a beautiful woman and I hope she lets herself age more gracefully now. Aging is a process that can’t be stopped and I wish more women would realize that, but until Hollywood/media outlets stop putting emphasis on how younger is better it won’t change.

  21. LMAO says:

    I want to defend her, I have warm feelings for Monica Geller, heck Jules made me laugh too. BUT……this interview reads like a scared, sad woman who has no concept of who she is and self awareness that isn’t wrapped up in her face. And she’s passing that on to a 13 year old. I’m sorry, but you are the mother, and no 13 year old should look like RuPaul and if her shorts are too short–then as a mother you fix that sh!t. #RantOff

    • Erica_V says:

      That comment made me pause too – if you don’t like her short shorts, buy her longer ones…

    • AnneC says:

      She needs to get out of LA. Her look is called LA face and lots of women have it. Mind boggling that they look in the mirror and think they look great. Whatever Meryl and Helen Mirren are doing, it’s working!

    • Ange says:

      Eh, if she’s 13 and enjoys playing with makeup at home what’s the harm? I did at that age and I am 36 with no issues. I’m sure the kid’s not wandering around in the streets with full drag makeup on.

  22. Grant says:

    I’ve got to say, I think she looks vastly improved in the included picture with her boyfriend.

  23. Saskia says:

    A long time ago she was to me one of the most beautiful actresses. There is something to be said for making peace with the inevitability of aging. Alas, we live in a superficial society – looks are everything. Sigh.

  24. I’m happy she’s stopped with the fillers. She looks much better now. I saw some photos of Bo Derek on the Daily Mail yesterday. She’s 60 and appears to be aging gracefully. You can see her wrinkles and she looks beautiful and happy.

    If I had to choose to look like frozen wax-figure Nicole Kidman, over-filled Christie Brinkley or Bo Derek, I’d go with Bo all day long.

    • Jess says:

      I agree with you, and what I think some people don’t understand is that you usually don’t look any younger, you just look your age but with work done. Like Courtney looks like she’s in her 50’s but had work done, so I don’t understand the point. I know a woman who spent over 100k getting surgery after surgery, facelift, boobs, butt, and Tummy tuck, but she still looks 60. It just makes me sad, there’s nothing wrong with aging or wrinkles, or even gray hair, and the media is mostly to blame, and the perverted old white men in Hollywood.

  25. Catherinethegoodenough says:

    As a few have said above, MTHFR stands for Methylene Tetra-HydroFolate Reductase, but those of us who have it and have suffered miscarriages do indeed call it the Motherf*er Mutation!

    Thing is, though, it’s actually not all that uncommon. Lots of us are walking around with a copy and don’t need any expensive supplements or a special diet. Taking extra folate is recommended if you’re trying to get pregnant, but even the need for that is debated among OBs. Some psychiatrists recommend taking folate if you have the MTHFR and suffer from depression, but again its utility is debatable. It is true, however, that if you have two copies of the mutation or a rarer variant then the consequences can be more serious, and maybe that’s what CC is talking about here.

  26. Polly says:

    So, I have an MTHFR double mutation (or, as she refers to it, the worst kind). It stands for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) which your body makes to convert folic acid to methyl-folate in order to uptake it and utilize it in your body. There are pluses and minuses to having the mutations (it protects against colon cancer, yay! it also increases the risk for heart disease and miscarriages, boo!). Basically, we double mutation folks are why pregnant women take folic acid. If we don’t take it then our babies have a significantly higher risk for neural tube and other defects.

    • Prim says:

      Polly, if you want to get pregnant take Methyl-Folate not Folic Acid. Folic is the synthetic form of Folate (and cheaper to manufacture hence it’s used more frequently is supplements) and us MTHFRs can’t use Folic.

      I wish with all my heart I’d known not to take Folic acid during my pregnancy, but I’d never even heard of MTHFR when I was carrying my twins.

  27. Joannie says:

    She looks so much better. Beautiful woman!

  28. JDub says:

    I have the double mutation too. It’s definitely a real thing. I’ve had 2 miscarriages and a stillborn. I needed to be on blood thinners and now i have 7 month old twins.

    • Susan says:

      Are you sure it’s the same mutation? Being on blood thinners, that sounds like you have another gene mutation relating to blood clotting, like Factor V Leiden, which is well known to cause miscarriages. Courtney’s thing is not really accepted by mainstream medicine.

  29. Lalu says:

    The baby comment is what really threw me. She could carry someone else’s egg. This sounds mean but that almost sounds like another way to defy her age. There are ways to have a baby at her age that don’t involve that. I feel really bad for her. She seems like a beautiful woman inside and out. It is a shame that she doesn’t realize it. Everyone gets old if they live long enough. You have to make up your mind that it’s not a sin to do so.

    • kibbles says:

      I felt the same way about that comment. I have no qualms against women who want their own biological children and will move mountains and go through numerous IVF sessions to accomplish that whether she is 30 or 50. However, I don’t see the point at all in buying someone else’s egg to become pregnant. Biologically it isn’t yours, so why not just adopt a child who is already here in the world and needs a home? If you are 53 and want a child, check out the adoption centers in your area. So many unwanted children out there deserve an opportunity to have a good life.

      • Ziki Fly says:

        I don’t know, I can sort of understand that. She may want to experience being pregnant again and having a newborn/ really young baby in the house. I know a lot of people who, once their kids are well past the baby stage (8 – 10), would talk about missing having a baby in the house. None of them actually had one, since babies don’t stay babies forever, but it is kind of a special phase that passes quickly and then you sort of can’t believe it’s gone and will never be back 🙂

      • kibbles says:

        There are newborns, babies, and infants ready for adoption. We already have too many people on this earth. She’s already experienced what it feels like to be pregnant. It would be more reasonable and a contribution to society if she were to adopt if she can no longer have her own biological children.

      • tracking says:

        Because she wants a child with her partner, seems pretty clear about that.

  30. perplexed says:

    I can understand wanting to look young.

    I don’t think I can understand the idea of wanting to carry a kid at 53. Adopting, yes, but carrying one — I don’t get it.

    • tracking says:

      Because she’s in love with a younger man who doesn’t have kids, and wants to have that experience with him.

  31. EasyA says:

    She looks improved, and I really appreciate her honesty about her fear. Botox and lasers would be my guess, as they keep collagen and wrinkles where you want or don’t want, and they don’t make you puffy.

  32. april says:

    I just read an article yesterday where she said she uses advanced skin treatments for tightening, microcurrent treatments, etc., which one would get at a professional’s office. She said she didn’t do botox or fillers anymore but was not opposed to the other treatments. Also, if she was given the proper B vitamins for her MTHFR mutation and now her body is better absorbing nutrients, she would physically and mentally feel better. Glad she had so much success.

  33. Sage says:

    Looks wise, she morphed into a brunette Chelsea handler.

  34. Sassafras says:

    Not sure what she means by she “had her fillers dissolved.” Did she have permanent fillers, or extremely long-lasting ones? As far as I know, most fillers are temporary. and dissolve on their own within months. I guess she had her docs speed up the dissolving that would have occurred anyway?