An actress who famously berated Ross for trying to get out of dancing with her on

Friends looks completely unrecognisable 23 years on. The 2001 episode The One

After I Do begins at the end of Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler’s (Matthew Perry)

wedding. One of the main storylines throughout the episode involved some of the group discovering Rachel’s (Jennifer Aniston) pregnancy. Ross, the father of her unborn baby, (David Schwimmer), however, was preoccupied flirting with Mona (Bonnie Somerville), a colleague of Monica’s. Shooting his shot, he switches his table to try and sit with Mona, only to discover he’s accidentally placed himself on the children’s table. When Ross attempts to ask Mona to dance, a young girl called Melinda asks him first. Hoping to impress, he lets the girl dance on his shoes. David Schwimmer and Rachel Snow in Friends. Rachel Snow played Gert in a 2001 episode of the sitcom (Picture: NBC) However, after dancing with several young girls eager to have a go too, he is approached by Gert, who insists it’s her turn. Ross nervously obliges but isn’t thrilled when she stands on his feet too, leaving him in agony.

Ross then misses his chance to dance with Mona, instead having to be assisted off the dancefloor when his feet become too sore to continue. Now, 23 years later, the actress who played Gert looks a world’s away from the young redhead in pigtails and a pink dress. Now with light blonde hair, Rachel Snow-Fornari is also working behind the scenes in the entertainment industry as a drama teacher in Los Angeles. Aside from Friends, Rachel also appeared in the movie Matilda, as well as Touched by an Angel, Curb Your Enthusaism and Lizzie McGuire, in which she played Veruca Albano.

She studied acting at NYU, but retired from the job in 2005, with her last on-screen appearance being on sci-fi series Phil of the Future. Her grandmother, Ann Howard, was also an actress, appearing in over 75 movies including Dirty Faces in 1938, Great Expectations in 1934, and The Little Princess in 1939. Earlier this year, Rachel spoke about how her role on Friends was ‘really hard’. ‘Friends was a valuable experience because that’s why people remember me. But that was really hard for me because I was 14, and I had just lost 30 pounds, which is this whole other animal of talking about why does a 14-year-old feel like they need to lose 30 pounds? But here we are,’ she told the blog PastFootForward. ‘They wanted to put me in this dress and put a padded butt and padded hips on me.

The whole joke of the episode is, “Oh, I’m hurting a grown man’s feet by dancing on his feet. That’ll f*** you up when you’re 14”. David Schwimmer, Jennifer Aniston and Lisa Kudrow on Friends. She also praised Jennifer Aniston who approached her on set and told Rachel how ‘funny’ she was, while adding David, Perry and Matt LeBlanc were ‘sweet and funny. In the same interview, Rachel said she had to ‘think realistically’ about her career options as a ‘weird, freckle-faced, redheaded, chubby girl’ and decided pass her wisdom on to other aspiring actors. ‘The kids I’m working with now, hopefully, they’re going to be the producers. They’re going to be the next people that decide, like, “Well, yeah, why can’t Ariel be Black? Why can’t a girl who wears a size 20 be the love interest? Why can’t the skinny Asian guy be the main character?”’ she added.