Courteney Cox explains why she's put the kibosh on plastic surgery.

has had a lot of stuff done to her face. And considering that Hollywood basically sends women down the river after age 30, we can hardly blame her. But at age 53, she's decided to put an end to what sounds like a vicious cycle of facial reconstruction that she now realizes "actually made things worse."

In a new interview with New Beauty, the Friends star opened up about her history with plastic surgery and admits that she regrets going a little overboard in the past on surgeries, facial fillers and injectionst. "I grew up thinking that appearance was the most important thing," she said. "That’s kind of sad because it got me in trouble. I was trying so hard to keep up, and I actually made things worse."