Courteney Cox warns cosmetic fillers can mess up your face quicker than you think: 'You don't realize that you look a little off, so then you keep doing more'

• Courteney Cox said fillers, which add volume to the face, are her biggest beauty regret.
• Cox said on the 'Gloss Angeles' podcast that she looked "a little off" after getting too many fillers. 
• Many users get fillers repeatedly because the body breaks them down after about a year.

Courteney Cox said that fillers were her biggest beauty regret in an interview this week.

The Friends star, speaking on an episode of the Gloss Angeles podcast released Tuesday, said getting fillers was a "domino effect" that ended in her getting too many injections, resulting in her appearance changing for the worse. 

"You don't realize that you look a little off," Cox said, "so then you keep doing more 'cause you look normal to yourself."

The 58-year-old actress said she sees pictures of her with fillers now and can't believe she thought she looked okay.

"You look in the mirror and go, 'Oh, that looks good,'" Cox added, "and you don't realize what it looks like to the outside person."

Injectable fillers add volume to the face using high concentrations of sugar molecules that are found naturally in the skin. The body breaks down the filler after a year or so, and many users get repeated treatments to maintain the look.

Fillers differ from Botox, which is a neurotoxin that temporarily blocks nerve impulses to facial muscles, weakening their movement and thus improving the appearance of wrinkles.  

Since fillers add volume, instead of stunting muscle movement, they can migrate or move into unintended parts of the face. Cox said her filler had "floated down," to other areas, which contributed to the skewed look.

Cox, who said she dissolved all her fillers in 2017, has been open about regretting using the injections on her face. In a 2022 interview with The Sunday Times, Cox said too many fillers made her look "really strange." 

"There was a time when you go, 'Oh, I'm changing. I'm looking older,'" Cox told The Times. "And I didn't realize that, oh shit, I'm actually looking really strange with injections and doing stuff to my face that I would never do now."