Friends star Lisa Kudrow is proud of aging naturally in youth-obsessed Hollywood and has no plans to go under the knife, but even she admits, “It’s sometimes just hard to watch yourself.”

“I mean, look, time marches on. You can’t look 30 when you’re not,” she told New York Magazine. “I don’t even know what to say about it. [Cosmetic surgery] makes me nervous, that stuff.”

“But still, you want to look good. So it’s sometimes just hard to watch yourself, like, ‘Oh god, what’s happening to me?’ There’s a line between looking like yourself and looking like a character from a Batman movie.”

Refusing cosmetic surgery has had other benefits for the 46-year-old. “In Cougar Town I played a dermatologist, and so the only note I had on the script was that I have to say that I haven’t had any work done — it’s too noticeable not to mention. Boy, I really hope I can put it off until I’m 60 or 70. I’ll keep you posted.”

Talking of Cougar Town: “I think Courtney [Cox]’s hilarious in it,” says Lisa. “She’s not just a pretty girl; she’s really goofy and ridiculous.”

Meanwhile, the blonde is celebrating the success of hosting and producing her hit NBC show about celebrity genealogy, Who Do You Think You Are?.

“It’s going great — I mean, wow, much beyond our expectations, I have to say. I knew it was good, but the question was if enough people would show up on a Friday night to watch it — and then they did,” she says of the primetime gamble.

“I was always going to do an episode on myself, but I kept thinking, ‘Well, maybe they won’t get the records they need.’ It’s tough to find Eastern European records on Jewish people.”

She also reveals which celebrity’s journey was her favorite: “Emmitt Smith, he was fantastic. How complicated is it that the person who owned your family is also your great-great grandfather?

“And he responded really clearly, like, ‘I’m glad that my heart’s not like his. And I’m glad he doesn’t know me’.”

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Lisa Kudrow takes a walk in Los Angeles, CA on March 25, 2010 where the blond does not look thrilled to have been caught in the public eye.

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There will be something conspicuously missing when Friends costar Lisa Kudrow guests on Courteney Cox’s ABC sitcom, Cougar Town, on Jan. 6: friendship.

“They didn’t want to play friends,” says executive producer Bill Lawrence, who quickly came up with a different role for Kudrow. “She plays a dermatologist who is a horrible, horrible person, but [Cox] goes to her because she’s the best. The [sight] of them playing people who dislike each other intensely was very funny for me to watch.”

I gave up on this show after only watching one episode. It was way too stupid for me. Has it gotten better?

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It must be intentional, but I can’t imagine why!  Here she is at the ‘Love & Other Impossible Pursuits’ premiere at the TIFF.

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Lisa Kudrow working a booth selling environmental shopping bags at her son Julian’s school fair in Los Angeles.

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Lisa Kudrow is facing legal action from her former manager over unpaid commissions, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

A suit filed by Scott Howard in the Los Angeles Superior Court last Friday claims that the Friends actress has failed to pay him commissions owed despite her terminating his contract in 2007.

Howard became the Emmy winner’s manager in 1991 with an initial agreement that his commitment would represent ten percent of the actress’ earnings.

The pair agreed to modify their contract following the success of Friends, with Howard initially committing to forego commissions on Kudrow’s residual earnings and later dropping his commission rate to five per cent.

However, his legal action claims that since his firing in 2007, the 45-year-old actress has failed to pay him commissions owed for Friends and other work she performed while he was her manager.

While he has declined to seek a figure for the alleged lost earnings, he is seeking damages of at least $50,000.

Kudrow’s co-star in Friends, Matt Le Blanc, is also facing a lawsuit from his former manager.

Camille Cerio claimed in July that she is owed $1 million from the actor’s earnings, including his failed spinoff series Joey.

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It looks as if a movie adaptation of the massively popular TV series Friends could soon be hitting cinema screens.

According to the Daily Mail, the cast feel compelled to reprise their roles after the recent success of the Sex and the City movie, despite David Schwimmer previously claiming he would rather not play Ross again.

Schwimmer will be joined by Matthew Perry, Matt LeBlanc, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow to begin filming “within the next 18 months”, says an insider.

“Jennifer, Courteney and the rest of the cast are keen to reprise their roles, under the right circumstances,” said a source.

“The box office success of Sex And The City has really got their wheels spinning about how a Friends film could be just as big, if done right.”

However, it has also been suggested that Jennifer Aniston was initially not as keen as other cast members to return, but the source noted the “huge payday” may have changed her mind.

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