While playing Charlotte on Sex and the City back in the day, Kristin Davis struggled with her body image.
“There was a good number of years when we were on the old school, in your televisions, HBO proper, And when people would see me on the street here or in New York, they would say, ‘Oh, but you’re not fat,'” Davis said on Monday’s edition of iHeartRadio’s Are You a Charlotte? podcast. “I know they know they didn’t mean anything bad. They mean it as a compliment.”
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Kristin Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker star in a 1998 ‘Sex and the City’ episode
But it affected Davis, who played Charlotte York on the HBO series that originally aired for six seasons, from 1998 to 2004.
Charlotte was one of four (initially) single women making their way in Manhattan on the Emmy winner. Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), and Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) were her closest friends. Davis, Parker, and Nixon have remained close in real life, too, and costar on sequel series And Just Like That.
“There were times when Sarah Jessica would be like, ‘You have body dysmorphia.’ I’d be like, ‘I don’t think I do,’ because the world is literally telling me daily that I am pear-shaped,” Davis said. “So much to the point where you can’t think straight. But then, you also have disordered eating. You’re starving yourself. I remember fainting in a parking lot one time, because I was on some crazy diet.”
The actress recalled in February that, on her previous show Melrose Place, she was flat-out told not to gain any weight by a line producer after hearing from costar, Thomas Calabro that he thought she looked great. (And she did!)
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He didn’t understand why producers were “really stressed” by her appearance, she told PEOPLE.
At that time, she had said, “If you had hips, it was a situation.”
Still, Davis has heartfelt memories of her time with Charlotte, as she noted when it was announced earlier this month that And Just Like That will end with its current season 3.
“I am profoundly sad,” she wrote on Instagram. “I love our whole beautiful cast and crew. 400 artisans working so hard on our show with deep love. And to our loyal fans, we love you forever and ever.”
Listen to the full episode of Are You a Charlotte? above.
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