Anna Faris has spoken out about relationships quite a bit since her recent split with Chris Pratt. Now she has shared that the concept of being friends with a significant other is overrated.
“I was once told that I didn’t need a tight group of girlfriends because Chris should be my best friend. But I never bought that. The idea of your mate being your best friend — it’s overhyped. It puts so much pressure on any one person, when I truly believe it’s okay to have intimacy with different people in different ways. And ranking your friends? It just shouldn’t happen, at least not beyond grade school.”
She went on to say that when she was younger she didn’t understand the importance of female friendships.
“In my 20s, I thought it was cool to say I was a guys’ girl. Back then, I thought that having the approval of my stoner guy friends was of greater value than having the approval of beautiful blonde sorority girls. I was selling my own gender down the river, and I wasn’t even getting any fulfillment from the relationships with those dudes.”