Kristin Davis is opening up about her previous struggles with physique picture — and what her Intercourse and the Metropolis costar Sarah Jessica Parker needed to say about it.
Within the Monday, August 11, episode of her “Are You a Charlotte” podcast, Davis, 60, admitted to having a “thinness” situation whereas filming the beloved HBO collection. Parker, 60, would say “you have got physique dysmorphia” when Davis introduced it up, however the Lethal Illusions star isn't so positive her costar's assertion was correct.
“I don't suppose I do,” she informed visitor Benito Skinner, “as a result of the world is actually telling me each day I'm pear-shaped.”
However the conversations surrounding her physique did result in “disordered consuming,” Davis admitted. “You're ravenous your self. I bear in mind fainting in a parking zone one time as a result of I used to be on some loopy food plan.”
She went on to elucidate that at one level followers, throughout the time when the present was “on the old-school televisions,” would come as much as her in public and assert, “Oh, however you're not fats.”
“I do know they didn't imply something unhealthy, they meant it as a praise,” she continued. “But it surely's as a result of I'm standing subsequent to Sarah Jessica.”
Earlier than Davis took on the function of Charlotte York on Intercourse and the Metropolis in 1998, she performed Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place. In February 2025, Davis informed Folks that her physique was a subject on set — and at one level she was even informed to take care of a sure weight.
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Davis recalled that her former costar Thomas Calabro got here to talk to her in regards to the subject in her trailer someday. “He's like, ‘Kristin, I'm so glad to see you right here,'” she recalled. “‘I simply wanna inform you, you realize, I feel you look nice,' and I'm like, ‘Oh, thanks. What are you speaking about? What do you imply?' He stated, ‘Oh, I do know that the producers are actually pressured, you realize, however I simply suppose it's wonderful that we've a girl who has curves.'”
Davis then admitted she was confused. “I simply suppose they shouldn't, you realize, put an excessive amount of stress on you,” Calabro reportedly continued, to which Davis requested, “What?”
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After talking to Calabro, Davis stated she went to talk to “the road producer.”
“And I'm like, ‘Thomas Calabro simply informed me that you just guys are stressing about my weight. Did somebody say one thing? Did Mr. [Aaron] Spelling say one thing?' And he was like, ‘We predict you look stunning,' and I used to be like, ‘Yeah, and?' He goes, ‘Simply don't acquire any weight,'” Davis remembered. “There was a common vibe on the set although, that was tough, in regards to the thinness state of affairs. Each single individual was beautiful and tremendous skinny. So I used to be like, ‘That is what I've to do.'”
