Courteney THRIVING AT 58

After 40 years in Hollywood, Scream star Courteney Cox feels like she’s just getting started

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She was just a teen when her dreams started to come true in the early ’80s. The sum­mer after she graduated from high school in Ala­bama, Courteney Cox headed to NYC and found work as a model. That led to acting and, more than a decade later, a part on one of the most successful sit­coms in television history, Friends. Now, 40 years after she started, Courteney was just awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “I never thought that when I was 18 it would lead to a career that I love and have really learned so much [do­ ing],” she gushed to Variety in February. “I just kept doing things that led me to something else, and I just kept learning and learning and learning.”

But amid all those les­sons, Courteney faced dev­astating pain. There was heartache — a high­profile breakup with actor Michael Keaton, 71, in the ’90s fol­lowed by a divorce from ac­tor David Arquette, 51, in 2012. She endured seven miscarriages before finally welcoming her only child, daughter Coco Arquette, 18. A career lull began after her work on the show Cougar Town, which wrapped in 2015, and criticism about her changing looks present­ed new challenges. “She admits to making many mistakes — the facial fillers and Botox were probably her biggest — but she says she has very few regrets,” shares an insider. Today at 58, “Courteney’s on cloud nine. She feels like she’s liv­ing her best life.” Courteney herself recently confirmed she’s thriving on the cusp of turning 60. “The place I am in right now,” she said in February, “is the happiest I’ve ever been.”