While most women agree with her take on the double standards of society, it turns out that her fellow Sex and the City co-star Kristin Davis, shares the same opinion.
"It can be extremely stressful to be ageing and to be compared to your much, much, much younger self," she said in an interview with New Beauty.
"If I was from a regular life, I would feel fine; I would feel great," she said. "I’m healthy, I’m strong, I’ve got this little three-year-old son, and I carry him around and it’s all good—but, no, I’m on television, where every bit of my physical being is analysed."
She continued: "I also became famous when magazines were king, and every week there’d be an article saying I was ‘pear-shaped’."
"That was difficult, and no amount of working out could change my shape or how those articles were written… they just loved to compare me to Sarah Jessica, who, at the same time, no matter what she did, was always going to be a very tiny thing,” she explained.
For Davis, there was a time when the '90s hit show was in its peak, where strangers even stopped her from buying sweets because tabloids had labelled her pear-shaped figure as something she shouldn't want.
"I also grew up feeling insecure about my body. I don’t know why, but I did. One time, right when we started filming in the olden days, I was walking home from set and I stopped at the corner bodega to buy some M&M’s, which is my go-to stress food," she revealed.
"I go to pay, and the woman behind the register said, ‘I can’t sell these to you.’ I thought she was going to say she was kidding, but she didn’t, so I left that bodega and went to the next bodega down the block, and I bought four big bags of M&M’s and I ate them all."
She concluded, "It was just very stressful back in the day… we had the extreme body stress, but now we have the age stress. Both were, and are, very hard things to deal with.”
There's clearly a long way to go before Hollywood stops vilifying women for simply being human, but here's hoping that helpful dialogue like this will help get the ball moving.
