Lisa Kudrow Admits To 'Life Altering' Nose Job At 16

Well, here's something you don't hear every day: A celebrity admitting to plastic surgery!

Not only that, Lisa Kudrow — who recently revealed that she got a nose job at age 16 — also says it was one of her best decisions.

"That was life altering," Kudrow shares in a new interview in the November/December issue of The Saturday Evening Post about getting a nose job at just 16 years old. "I went from, in my mind, hideous, to not hideous. I did it the summer before going to a new high school. So there were plenty of people who wouldn't know how hideous I looked before. That was a good, good, good change."

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And it came at a time when she really needed a fresh start. The 50-year-old actress says that in junior high, her two best friends just up and decided they didn't want to be pals with her anymore.

"That happened in seventh grade when we moved from sixth grade to a new school. So they knew some people, and I didn't. Eventually they just got tired of me being a tag-along," she shares. "They said, 'For your own good, you need to see what would happen if we weren't here.' It was really brutal. Very hard."

"It was just mean." she adds. "And all of junior high felt upside down to me. It was not, like, the nice people who were popular; it wasn't the most entertaining people -- it was the meanest people who were popular."

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Perhaps unknowingly, Kudrow used some of those old feelings to play the beloved misfit Phoebe Buffay in the 1994 hit TV series, Friends.

"She was basically a ditzy girl who lived in a happier reality than everybody else, because everything was so gloomy around her. That's what I decided," the actress explains of her character.

"And she was fearless and unapologetic. Now on Twitter or Facebook I see young girls saying, 'I identify with Phoebe because I'm different too.' That's nice, to think that people who don't feel they fit in perfectly well can relate to that character."

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