Courteney Cox reveals her mid-life crisis

Courteney Cox reveals her mid-life crisis
Courteney Cox reveals her mid-life crisis (Image credit: AP/Press Association Images)

Courteney Cox-Arquette has confessed she felt terrified about turning 45. The Friends star told Reveal magazine: "Ageing is hard and it just gets harder. I don't remember anything about turning 40 at all, because I had just given birth to my daughter Coco and I couldn't believe I had a kid. "Let me tell you - what was hard though - turning 45. That one struck a nerve." Courteney is currently starring in new Living series Cougar Town, which she and husband David Arquette, 38, co-produce, about a divorced mother of a teenage boy who's labelled a cougar for dating younger men, and is shown in some scenes wobbling her bingo wings and squeezing her 'flabby bits'. She said: "That's me and yeah, that's way gross. I've probably worked out harder since that scene!" Courteney said she enjoyed yoga, but insisted she didn't have the willpower for a fad diet. "I get hungry all the time. I never say, 'Tomorrow I will try to look good for something.' "It just doesn't work that way for me. I have to suck it in a little tighter. I'm not that disciplined."

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.