Friends Stars Talk Babies, on and Off TV

ByABC News
August 31, 2001, 7:18 PM

August 30 -- Even without the "who's pregnant" cliffhanger from last season, baby speculation has followed Friends stars Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox since each actress tied the knot in real life.

The new issue of People magazine reveals that Cox, who is married to actor David Arquette, suffered a miscarriage last spring. "She was very disappointed," her stepfather, Hunter Copeland, tells the magazine. Copeland says that "the doctors have cleared her to try again," and that Cox and her hubby are still eager to have children.

Aniston, who recently denied reports that she and her hunky husband, Brad Pitt, are expecting, differs from her "Sexiest Man Alive" spouse over the number of kids they want when they do start procreating. While Aniston draws the line at three, Pitt has said he wants a much bigger family. "It doesn't matter, unless he gets a mail-order bride to give him the rest," jokes Aniston.

Lisa Kudrow, the longest-married of the Friends bunch and the only mother in real life so far, has a 3-year-old son, Julian, with husband Michael Stern. While Kudrow brings her son and husband to Friday night tapings, the quirky actress "is totally standoffish," a Friends crewmember tells People. "She always has been."

Warning: Season premiere speculation ahead.

Meanwhile, the burning question to be settled by the show's eighth and possibly last season premiere is not who's pregnant (survey says: Rachel), but who the daddy is.

Folks are ruling out now-married Chandler (Matthew Perry) and dim-bulb ladies' man Joey (Matt LeBlanc) as suspects. And Rachel's former assistant, played by Eddie Cahill, has his own upcoming WB show, Glory Days, thank you very much.

That leaves Rachel's former squeeze Ross (David Schwimmer) as the knocker-upper. Guess we'll have to wait until the Sept. 30 season premiere to know for sure.