Courteney Cox still gets Botox despite filler regret, there’s ‘absolutely no movement’ in her upper face, says expert
COURTENEY Cox’s famous fight against wrinkles could be back on, a plastic surgeon has suggested.
He also sheds light on the mum-of-one’s journey with injectables, when she would’ve felt a “soup of filler and water” under her skin.
On March 7, a podcast was released in which Courteney discussed her past relationship with cosmetic facial fillers.
“I think I messed up a lot and now, luckily, I was able to reverse most of that,” she told the Gloss Angels Beauty Podcast.
She added: “Now, I’m actually just older.”
But one top plastic surgeon told The U.S. Sun he thinks Courteney likely still gets work done.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live on February 28, the 58-year-old Hollywood actress’s facial expressions looked minimal – while her skin appeared smooth and youthful.
In an exclusive interview, analyzing the footage, Dr. Richard Westreich said: “During the entire Jimmy interview, I saw absolutely no movement in Courteney’s forehead or frown area.
“She has crow’s feet or smile lines, which she talks about in interviews specifically.
“There’s almost no movement now whatsoever in her upper face.
“Also, her skin is very smooth and shiny, which can also be a sign of doing Botox.
“While Courteney has discussed doing skin treatments, like lasers (specifically the clear and brilliant laser) which can make your skin smooth and shinier, these have no effect on movement.
“It’s likely she’s still doing Botox in her forehead and frown area, but not on her crow’s feet.
“She had more forehead lines in 2019 than she does now.
“Courteney could be spending around $4000 on Botox annually.
“If she’s getting the lasers and possibly micro-needling treatments, this could add on another $10,000 on top of that.
“Courteney could be spending up to $14,000 a year on minimizing her wrinkles.”
For several years, unlike many of her Hollywood contemporaries, Courteney has been vocal about her wrinkle-busting beauty adventures.
She has also spoken extensively about her regrets about using fillers and injectables.
In 2017, Courteney told NewBeauty magazine that she’d had filler dissolved from her face because she didn’t like the way they made her feel and look.
“You need movement in your face, especially if you have thin skin like I do,” she said, before adding: “I’ve had to learn to embrace movement and realize that fillers are not my friend.”
By 2019, the Scream star seemed keen to religiously remind everyone that she’d had her fillers removed.
She told People magazine: “You have to accept getting older,” before saying: “Now I just embrace who I am and getting older with what God gave me, not what I was trying to change.”
In a 2022 interview with the UK’s Sunday Times, Courteney revealed that she wouldn’t be doing any more “stuff” to her face and mentioned injectables.
“And I didn’t realize that, oh s**t, I’m actually looking really strange with injections and doing stuff to my face that I would never do now,” she confessed.
The actress also recently said that her past filler look had been a “little off.”
“I think a lot of the problem is that you just get used to the way that you look,“ says Dr. Westreich.
“If everyone around you is starting to look a certain way, then it normalizes that type of filler face.
“A lot of people don’t realize it and don’t really come to that moment of realizing that they look odd.
“While famous people being photographed all the time, can start to look strange without even realizing it.
“You can keep adding small amounts and the changes are not extreme each time.
“Over time they add up to a lot, especially with something like filler.
“Filler often doesn’t fully go away over time and the more you do, the longer it lasts.
“This is why dissolving filler from time to time is necessary in many cases which is what Courteney did.”
Although already an actress, Courteney had her biggest break in 1994, bagging the iconic role of Monica Geller on the NBC sitcom Friends.
Her movie career took off with roles in the Scream franchise, eventually winning seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
More recently, Courteney was honored on The Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
In fact, the Alabama-born actress and former model’s global fame saw her featured in Prince Harry’s book, Spare.
Here Harry recalled once spontaneously partying at Cox’s home and finding “a box of black diamond mushroom chocolates” in the fridge.
Before Johnny, Courteney was married to David Arquette, 51.
They married in 1999 before divorcing in 2013.
In her recent podcast confession, Courteney also revealed how her fillers started to “float down.”
“This whole other storyline of Courteney’s is that it is very prevalent all over the place about fillers migrating, ” explains Dr. Westreich.
“She mentioned that her fillers are ‘falling down,’ but that’s not quite right.
“The older the filler gets, the weirder it behaves in terms of it makes you very swollen and draws in a lot of water.
“If you’re someone who’s repeatedly doing fillers, then you have these fillers of all these different ages in your body.
“You get this odd soup of filler and water and swelling.
“People get so used to looking full, but the moment a tiny bit goes down, they go back for more and keep blowing up.
“Everybody’s talking about migration, but it’s not really migration in most instances.
“Nobody’s actually ever really demonstrated that the common fillers and ones that are hyaluronic acid migrate.
“The few studies that they’ve done show that they stay in place.
“There may be a little bit of local migration, but it’s not like you get filler put in your cheek, and that winds up coming down and settling, on your jaw.
“She said that before because when your face gets swollen, that water can be affected by gravity, for sure.
“I don’t think her filler moved, the volume may have moved, but the filler no.
“You have to go back to where the filler actually is to dissolve it.
“The dissolving takes about two weeks to settle in and you often have to do several rounds.
” If you’re dissolving a lot of filler, you also may be dissolving some of your own natural volume.
“It may take a couple of weeks for that to come back.
“But the point for Courteney is that she also said she wanted to get movement.
“She’s now not moving her upper face.”