Sarah Jessica Parker told Kristin Davis she had body dysmorphia.
Kristin Davis struggled with body image
Kristin – who played Charlotte York on Sex and the City and And Just Like That – struggled with body image issues in the early 2000s because fans she met were always surprised she wasn’t “fat”, and even though she knew they “didn’t mean anything bad”, she couldn’t help but be affected by the comments, much to the concern of her co-stars.
Speaking on her Are You a Charlotte? podcast, the 60-year-old star said: “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.’
“I know they know they didn’t mean anything bad. They mean it as a compliment. But it’s because I’m standing next to Sarah Jessica.”
“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.
“So much to the point where you can’t think straight.”
And Kristin admitted she was always on a “crazy diet”, which even led to her fainting on one occasion.
She added: “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.”
Kristin got her big break in 1995 playing Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place and earlier this year, she recalled the pressure she was under because of the expectation for female…
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