Anna Faris admits that ‘competitiveness’ has been an issue in both of her marriages in the past

Anna Faris provided some insight into her split from ex-husbands Chris Pratt and Ben Indra during a candid conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow.

The “Iron Man” actress was a guest on Faris’ “unqualified” podcast this week, where talk finally turns to their love life. After Paltrow explained how her taste in men changed over time and what she learned from her divorce from Chris Martin of Coldplay, Faris quickly revealed what she’s been working on since her divorces.

“I’m been married twice already … but my two other marriages have been with actors and I do not think we have done a good job of eliminating competitiveness,” she said. “Or at least I did not, because I was a proud person and did not want to show vulnerability.”

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

“A hint of competitiveness in comparison, I did not handle it well, I do not think,” Faris added. “I hope I grew out of it.”

To Paltrow, she said she ‘learned so much from something I least wanted in the world’, referring to her split from Martin.

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

“The choices you make when you are a younger person who is less determined affect more what you want to heal through a romantic relationship,” she said as her taste in men changed over time.

“We all have the aspects we’re trying to cure, and we’re young and we don ‘t realize we’re just projecting a lot of our childhood stuff on a person and hoping to change the outcome of our childhood by dating this guy or this woman, ‘she continues. “I feel like I’ve chosen men for a really long time and try to work out with them that I have no business in a romantic relationship. It was work I had to do myself. I was really good at picking men for a while there where I could do everything about it and not have to focus on my own problems. ‘

During her career, Paltrow dated actors, including Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck, before breaking the deadlock with Martin in 2003. The two had two children – Apple (16) and Moses (14) – before ‘consciously disconnecting’ in 2014. She dated Brad Falchuk the same year before they married in 2018.