"Friends" star Lisa Kudrow doesn't regret having just one child. The Emmy-winning actress said the choice was her gift to her son, Julian, who apparently didn't want a sibling.
Kudrow gave birth to Julian in 1998. The 18-year-old will soon head off to college and the actress and her husband, Michel Stern, will no doubt have an empty nest in their Beverly Hills home.
"[Julian] made it clear from the moment he could speak that he didn't want a brother or sister," Kudrow said, according to Page Six. "It just worked out that way anyway - but to this day, he'll say, 'Thank you,'"
Kudrow admitted in a 2012 interview on the show "Bethenny" that she felt bad having an only child for just one reason. "He alone will have to deal with his parents when they're old," the actress joked, according to People.
"The Comeback" actress was at the height of her popularity on television when she got pregnant with her only child. In fact, her pregnancy was added to the storyline on "Friends," which marked a significant trajectory for her character, Phoebe Buffay.
Kudrow, who was then raising a baby, treated her work as a typical 9-to-5 job as "Friends" became popular worldwide. She made sure she got to know her child as he's growing up, hence she didn't take more work that would have her traveling. "[Julian] wasn't a kid [I could uproot] to New York, then London," the 53-year-old actress told Glamour in a 2014 interview.
In 2016, Kudrow's family went to Boston to look at colleges for Julian, who is graduating from high school this school year. One of the institutions they visited was Emerson College, according to Boston Globe. Kudrow described her son as "big thinker" and an "intellectual" who could probably major in Philosophy in an interview with the Saturday Evening Post.
