{"id":1956355,"date":"2025-08-12T17:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1956355"},"modified":"2025-08-12T17:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:53:17","slug":"kristin-davis-says-sarah-jessica-parker-told-her-she-had-body-dysmorphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kristin-davis-says-sarah-jessica-parker-told-her-she-had-body-dysmorphia\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristin Davis says Sarah Jessica Parker told her she had body dysmorphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2F109512107.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Carrie always keeps it real with Charlotte. <\/p>\n<p>On the latest episode of her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/1119-are-you-a-charlotte-247668155\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAre You A Charlotte?\u201d podcast<\/a>, Kristin Davis claimed that Sarah Jessica Parker confronted her about her body image issues when the two were filming \u201cSex and the City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were times when Sarah Jessica would be like, \u2018You have body dysmorphia,&#8217;\u201d Davis, 60, told guest Benito Skinner. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kristin Davis in \u201cSex and the City.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d be like, \u2018I don\u2019t think I do,\u2019 because the world is literally telling me daily that I am pear-shaped,\u201d Davis continued. \u201cSo much to the point where you can\u2019t think straight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cAnd Just Like That\u201d star added that the talk about her body at the time led to her having \u201cdisordered eating.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis in \u201cSex and the City\u201d Season 5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The cast of \u201cSex and the City.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re starving yourself. I remember fainting in a parking lot one time, because I was on some crazy diet,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Davis also explained how her interactions with fans further complicated her body image struggles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kristin Davis steps out in Paris on May 29, 2025. <span class=\"credit\">Aissaoui Nacer \/ SplashNews.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere 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, \u2018Oh, but you\u2019re not fat,&#8217;\u201d\u00a0Davis shared. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know they didn\u2019t mean anything bad. They mean it as a compliment,\u201d she told Skinner. \u201cBut it\u2019s because I\u2019m standing next to Sarah Jessica.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kristin Davis as Charlotte York.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Post has reached out to Parker\u2019s rep for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Davis and Parker, 60, starred on \u201cSex and the City\u201d with Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall from 1998 to 2004. The stars, except Cattrall, returned for the sequel series \u201cAnd Just Like That\u201d which<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/01\/entertainment\/and-just-like-that-ending-after-3-seasons-of-cast-drama-backlash\/\"> is ending on Thursday after three seasons.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis in the second \u201cSex and the City\u201d movie. <span class=\"credit\">New Line Cinema\/Hbo\/Village Roadshow\/Kobal\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and Sarah Jessica Parker on the set of \u201cAnd Just Like That\u201d in September 2021. <span class=\"credit\">GC Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before \u201cSATC,\u201d Davis <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/03\/entertainment\/kristin-davis-reveals-melrose-place-co-star-wouldnt-speak-to-her-on-set-during-filming\/\">played Brooke Armstrong on\u00a0\u201cMelrose Place\u201d<\/a> and similarly dealt with body image issues during that time.<\/p>\n<p>In Feb., Davis revealed that she was told not to gain weight when she was on the Fox soap opera.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Kristin Davis in \u201cSex and the City.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere was a general vibe on the set though, that was difficult, about the thinness situation,\u201d she told <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kristin-davis-was-told-not-to-gain-weight-while-on-melrose-place-exclusive-8786502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People<\/a>, adding, \u201cEvery single person was gorgeous and super skinny. So I was like, \u2018This is what I have to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis said that she hired a running coach and did back-to-back 90-minute spin classes to look a certain way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was frustrated. I was trying to do the thing,\u201d she shared. \u201cOf course, I\u2019m sure I wasn\u2019t eating, I have no idea. I don\u2019t remember the eating part.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie always keeps it real with Charlotte. On the latest episode of her \u201cAre You A Charlotte?\u201d podcast, Kristin Davis claimed that Sarah Jessica Parker confronted her about her body image issues when the two were filming \u201cSex and the City.\u201d \u201cThere were times when Sarah Jessica would be like, \u2018You have body dysmorphia,&#8217;\u201d Davis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1956356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[25538,343359,315100,21751,21741,309216,304796,37922,21913],"class_list":["post-1956355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-actors","tag-body","tag-body-image","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-kristin-davis","tag-sarah-jessica-parker","tag-sex-and-the-city","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Kristin-Davis-says-Sarah-Jessica-Parker-told-her-she-had.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}