This interview with Courtney Cox (registration required) in Marie Claire magazine is one of the most depressing things I’ve read in a while. Punchline: Gorgeous, talented, happily-married mother has it all and cannot enjoy it because she’s terrified of looking a day older than 25.
The guy at the bar, she thinks, wouldn’t want her.
The big A, you know. Aging. It gets to all of us. It really gets to Courteney. [...]
“Let me tell you, there’s a lot of pressure,” she continues. “Which is why I always think women should be totally open with other women about what they do to make themselves look better.”
A self-professed “product whore,” Courteney is involved with developing ideas for new products for Kinerase, the boutique skincare line she’s been the face of for three years. “I’ll call them up and say, ‘You know what’s missing in this line? We need a neck cream.’ Or as I age, I realize, Wow, I’m getting dryer. I want a thicker under-eye cream. So, they made a thicker under-eye cream, which is one of my favorite products of theirs.”
Without being terribly high-maintenance in her soul, Courteney’s outer carapace is very well cared for. There are the weekly chiropractor appointments, the massage, the hair, the therapist, the facialist, the trainer. (Cardio five times a week, tennis on the weekends: “I’d feel better about myself if I did stomach crunches, but I don’t.”)
These articles are usually total puff pieces, designed to make absolutely anyone sound like the most totally awesome, coolest person on earth. But, despite all the remarks about how beautiful Cox (still) is, this unflattering piece just made me really glad I’m not her.
