How the Cast of Friends Aged from the First to Last Season
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Matthew Perry's looks changed quite a bit between the first and last season of Friends. During an interview with People in 2013, Matthew Perry revealed that during the show's 10 season run, he abused alcohol routinely, and was also addicted to prescription medication, which would explain how Chandler's weight fluctuated throughout the seasons.
As he explained, "I was on Friends from age 24 to 34. I was in the white-hot flame of fame. The six of us were just everywhere all the time. From an outsider's perspective, it would seem like I had it all. It was actually a very lonely time for me because I was suffering from alcoholism. It was going on before Friends, but it's a progressive disease."More Matthew Perry
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Jennifer Aniston was 25 when she filmed the first episode of Friends. While it might not seem super obvious to viewers, Aniston says, "We were a lot rounder [back then]." She credits yoga with toning up her body over the years.
And naturally, we have to talk about Aniston's hair. Throughout the years, Aniston seriously influenced how women wanted their hair cut. From waves to a bob to a lob, and long layers to even longer layers, Aniston set the tone for hair fashion.
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Monica Gellar basically showed us all how to rock a crop top. As the seasons went on she went from short to long hair, and her fashion matured away from the crop top days. Though Courteney Cox, who was 30 when the show first aired, has admitted to Botox, it seems that her face on Friends leaned out over the years.
Compare the left photo where she is 30 to the one on the right, where she is 40 - did she age backwards?
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Forget Rachel's hair! Joey's hair is where the story is. It was long and flopped over his eyes in the first season, when LeBlanc was 27, and then it transitioned into more of a short and spiked looked over the years. In a post-show interview, LeBlanc revealed that he went gray at a young age and had to dye his hair the entire time he was doing Friends. Scandal!
Matt has also admitted to dealing with weight gain over the years - perhaps it was his character's love of meatball subs and pizza.More Matt LeBlanc- Dig Deeper...320 Famous Leo Celebrities
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Lisa Kudrow, who was 31 (and the oldest member of the core cast) when the show first aired, might have gone through the most noticeable of changes - mostly because she was pregnant during the taping of the show in 1997. The writers wrote in her pregnancy via the surrogacy storyline.
Aside from her pregnancy, Kudrow's looks didn't change dramatically throughout the series. Her hair remained long and straight throughout the seasons, and her fashion remained as quirky as her character was.
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David Schwimmer's (who was 27 years old when the show first aired) character Ross Geller definitely got cooler during Friends' 10 seasons. He went from a nerdy haircut to kind of a spiked Robert Pattinson-esque 'do.
Similarly, his clothing style evolved from dorky sweaters to leather jackets.
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James Michael Tyler, the actor who played Central Perks' manager Gunther, only had bleached blond hair on the show due to a random accident. “I had a friend who wanted to be a hairdresser and wanted to practice bleaching someone’s hair, so I offered what hair I had left at the time," he explained. "It came out white and that was the night before I was called in for the first day of shooting the first season.”
Tyler, who was 32 when the show first aired, had to regularly bleach his hair for his 10 year tenure on the show. His character kept the same look throughout the series, and Tyler aged normally, with his hairline receding slightly over the years.More James Michael Tyler- #49 of 196 onFamous People Who Died In 2021
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