Courtney Cox covers MARIE CLAIRE’s ‘The Redefining Wellness’ Issue, which just went live. Cox opens up about starting her own brand, Homecourt, her first gig soliciting donations for a charity foundation by phone at age 13, and getting her first tattoo with her daughter Coco, actress Laura Dern, and Dern’s children Ellery and Jaya.
On working hard to free herself of the thoughts that previously held her back: “I used to do a lot of things out of fear, even making connections with people, checking in with people…not taking a chance, a risk. Now, fear doesn’t play nearly as big of a part in my life. I push myself more.”
On being another “celebrity brand”: “There are a ton of celebrity brands, but I don’t know if all the celebrities that have brands are as involved [as I am]. It’s not something that I’m just getting paid to do; I’m not getting paid. I want it to be perfect. I want it to be the best it can be.”
On growing up the youngest of four siblings in Birmingham, Alabama and learning about the importance of work: “We lived like we had a lot of money and yet we were always going bankrupt.”
Cox learned the benefits of working a side job from an early age. At 13, she couldn’t wait to start making her own money and landed her first job soliciting donations for a charity foundation by phone. Years later, when Cox moved to L.A. for better acting roles in the mid-‘80s, she bought, renovated, and sold houses in her free time.
On how she started her infamous dinner parties: “When I moved to California, I didn’t have any family out here. I was like, I need a community. Where’s the gathering?”
Cox took it upon herself to solve the problem. Almost every Sunday for the last 25 years, she has opened her home to new and old friends for casual dinner parties.
On “going long” becoming her personal mantra and how her mother played a role in that: “My mother was a beautiful woman who did not have a lot of drive. I always wanted her to go long. Take a chance, take a risk, be bold.”
“I would stop myself from doing things, and I would talk myself out of stuff by justifying—oh, you know, that’s not really what I want to do. Now I take these thoughts…I’ll just put [each] out as if it’s a candle. Because I think whenever you give wind or air or attention to things, they do get bigger. Why stay in the past or project into the future?”
On being an empty nester and visiting her daughter Coco at school: “I miss that girl every minute.” They FaceTime often; with the dogs too, though “Bear never looks into the camera.” Cox had just visited Coco the week before. “I found myself expecting [to run] into each other’s arms. I expected her to need more than she does. It’s an adjustment.”
[Photo Credit: Ramona Rosales for Marie Claire Magazine]
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