Anna Faris admits that ‘competitiveness’ was a problem in her two previous marriages

Anna Faris gave some insight into her divisions with former husbands Chris Pratt and Ben Indra during a frank conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow.

The “Iron Man” actress was a guest on Faris’ “Unqualified” podcast this week, where the conversation turned to their love lives. After Paltrow explained how her taste in men has changed over time and what she learned from her divorce from Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Faris quickly revealed what she has worked on since her divorces.

“I have been married twice … but my other two marriages were with actors and I don’t think we did a great job to eliminate competitiveness,” she said. “Or at least not, being a proud person and not wanting to reveal vulnerability.”

Faris was married to Indra, whom she met on the 2004-2008 film debut set “Lovers Lane” – when her career began to take off. She was then married to Chris Pratt from 2009 to 2018, when he was switching from TV roles to box office hits. They share son Jack, 8.

“Any indication of competitiveness in comparison, I didn’t deal with it very well, I don’t think,” added Faris. “I hope I grew up with that.”

For Paltrow, she said she “learned a lot from something I least wanted in the world”, referring to Martin’s separation.

“I would never have wanted a divorce, I never would have wanted to marry the father of my children, theoretically,” she continued. “But I learned more about myself through this process than I could have imagined. As I focused on responsibility, I was able to find the most amazing man and build something I never had before with Brad, my husband.”

“The choices you make when you are a younger and less determined person become more about what you are trying to heal through a romantic relationship,” she said of how your taste in men has changed over time.

“We all have those aspects that we are trying to heal and we are young and we don’t realize that we are just projecting a lot of things from our childhood on one person and hoping to change the outcome of our childhood by dating this guy or this woman,” she continued. “I feel like, really, for a long time, I was choosing men and trying to work out with them what I didn’t have to try to do in a romantic relationship. It was a job I needed to do myself. Really good at choosing men for a while, where I could do everything about them and not have to focus on my own problems. “

Throughout his career, Paltrow dated actors like Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck, before marrying Martin in 2003. The two had two children – Apple, 16, and Moses, 14 – before “consciously separating” in 2014. She started dating Brad Falchuk the same year, before they got married in 2018.