Courteney Cox battled a terrifying and exhausting battle to become a mother, just like Monica Geller from her Friends movie.
It’s 30 years since Friends first launched and became iconic TV viewing. With its relatable plotlines and quick wit, the show remains as popular now as it was then.
But behind the jokes and camaraderie, it has since emerged that several of the stars were battling their own, personal demons. The late Matthew Perry, who played Chandler Bing, was in the throes of drink and drug addiction – an affliction that would cause his tragic death in 2023.
Rachel Green actress Jennifer Aniston has since shared that she was struggling to have a baby with then-husband Brad Pitt, who met his future wife, Angelina Jolie, before Friends finished filming.
And the same was true for her on-and-off screen best friend Courteney Cox, who was also battling to start a family with husband David Arquette.
Her character, Monica Geller, attempted to have a baby with husband Chandler for two seasons, but nothing came. They eventually discovered that his sperm had “low motility” and she had an “inhospitable womb.”
Life was mirrored art as Courteney battled through a “bunch of miscarriages,” one of which occurred as Rachel gave birth to her daughter Emma.
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She described the emotional moments that caused her to fall apart as “that was hard” to NBC in 2004. “Sometimes, as I recall, I just had a miscarriage while Rachel was giving birth. It passed the same way. Oh my goodness, being funny was awful.
When she married David Arquette in 1999, Courteney, now 60, had no reason to suspect they would struggle to conceive.
“Well it was really weird because everyone in my family has kids. I mean, they pop out like it’s nobody’s business. No one in my family has a problem. So to me, I just thought this would not be a problem at all,” she said. “I get pregnant pretty easily, but I have a hard time keeping them.”
She decided to go through two rounds of IVF, the second of which brought her daughter Coco in June 2004, just two days before her 40th birthday, after being told that her body produced an anti-body that attacked the fetus.
So I now made the decision to perform in vitro twice. Then, every day, take heparin, which is a blood thinner. She advised taking a baby aspirin.
Years later, she was able to identify the exact cause of her miscarriage after being diagnosed with a MTHFR gene mutation, which alters the body’s methylation process and raises the risk of miscarriage-causing blood clots.
Coco is now 20 and Courteney has previously spoken about wanting to try for a second child with fiancé Johnny McDaid.
Source: Mirror
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