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When it's time for a change, stay out of Jennifer Aniston's way. The shaggy cut worn by Friends' sweet-but-spoiled Rachel was once America's must-have do. But while Aniston, 30, was flattered by the craze, she has moved on. Now, says her stylist Chris McMillan, her hair is "just long. She curses me every time I trim a tenth of an inch." That's not the only seismic shift for the Picture Perfect star. Late last spring she became the object of Brad Pitt's affection. Among her other attributes, says makeup-artist friend Collier Strong, Aniston, 5'5", "has a body that rocks the world." And the star, who stays in shape with thrice-weekly workouts, learned early on to accentuate the positive. Longtime pal Andrea Bendewald, of the Suddenly Susan cast, says Aniston's makeup was "never gaudy" when they attended Manhattan's High School for the Performing Arts. The thanks goes to the influence of her mother, Nancy, a model-actress. (Her actor father, John, was a longtime regular on Days of Our Lives.) And when she hit LA in the early '90s, Aniston reluctantly realized that she had to bare down. "It's unfortunate that Hollywood puts pressure on women to be thin," she told PEOPLE in 1997, "because it sends people the wrong message." Still, she melted away 30 pounds in about a year. "She didn't bounce around from diet to diet," says Bendewald. "She
just started eating better." And what happened to that
girl-next-door image? That may have been a mirage in the first
place. "She has a bit of that quality," says her father.
"But you should be so lucky to find a girl next door like
her." "I used to cut myself like there's no tomorrow," says everybody's Friend Matthew Perry, enthusing about his Gillette Mach3 razor. "It was like a drive-by shaving, but I never have trouble now." It's little wonder that the man behind TV's irresistibly neurotic Chandler Bing gets lathered up about close cuts. His father, actor John Perry, was the rugged visage of Old Spice commercials. "He was the chiseled thing going," the younger Perry says with an envious sigh. But the 6-foot actor whom pals call Matty has his own charms. "It's his eyes. They're so blue," says cast mate Lisa Kudrow. Courteney Cox, who plays Chandler's girlfriend Monica, falls for the laughs. "He's got a great heart and a great sense of humor," she says. "It's the perfect combination." It wasn't always. In LA's private Buckley School at age 15, "I was the coolest guy of the non-cool crowd, says Perry, who moved in with his remarried dad in LA after spending his early childhood with his former-model mother, Suzanne, in Ottawa. "We were the guys who made you laugh, but didn't get any dates." Nowadays the 29-year-old Perry, who has squired the likes of Julia Roberts and Yasmine Bleeth, is committed to staying tuned up for Ms. Right. He plays Wallyball (volleyball on a racquetball court) and lets fellow Friend Jennifer Aniston ten his hair ("I like it a little spiky and she always pushes it down"). But his biggest beauty secret is pride. He entered a drug rehab in 1997 for an addiction to painkillers, and emerged, he says, "healthier, which was a very difficult thing to do." Starring in the forthcoming "Three to Tango" with Dylan McDermott and Neve Campbell, Perry says, "I'm walking through the world pretty happy these days. Hopefully, I'm looking better as a result."
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