Courteney Cox: 'I once overdid the Botox!'

Courteney Cox: 'I once overdid the Botox!'
Courteney Cox: 'I once overdid the Botox!' (Image credit: AP/Press Association Images)

Courteney Cox-Arquette has revealed she felt "trapped in her own skin" when she used too much Botox. The 46-year-old Cougar Town star told InStyle magazine she is now careful not to overdo the anti-ageing procedure. She confessed: "Ageing gracefully is one thing, but trying to slow it down is another. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly." She added: "One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin." The former Friends star, who married actor David Arquette in 1999, also revealed her husband is a hopeless handyman and can't even change a light bulb. Courteney said: "I've never been with a man who's handy. If we didn't live together, David wouldn't even notice if a light bulb had burned out. "I have amassed one of the greatest tool kits ever. I used to be extremely handy fixing sprinklers - until they got so complicated. "Oh, and I can light an outdoor gas heater - the secret is you have to hold the button down longer than most men seem to be able to."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.