Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell returns with a new take on her best-known character, but her own life has moved on from cosmos and casual flings.
From the piece, in The Telegraph...
Incredibly, Bushnell is 51. It’s a shocker, because Carrie Bradshaw is frozen in our imaginations at the age of roughly 35, and because Bushnell has, as the stylist puts it, “a really youthful vibe”, for which, read a cracking figure and a good Botox doctor. (“Oh, Botox, sure!” she says, astonished that I would even bother to ask. “Plastic surgery? I haaaven’t had it yet,” she drawls, “but I may.”) Would she still wear a silver minidress, like the one she has just been modelling for the shoot? “Maybe, for, like, one night out.” She looks a little doubtful. Time has moved on, and so have her priorities. “There are certain things that one doesn’t have to do any more. In your twenties, the opposite sex is very important. You are more concerned with how you look. Do you have the right bag? Do you fit in? When you get older, you stop caring as much about what people think. I guess it’s Boodism [Buddhism]. Boodism in your twenties doesn’t work; when you’re in your fifties, it just happens naturally.”
These days, she still likes a cocktail, but she has stopped smoking, shops only twice a year — “I know it’s hard to fathom, but I’m not a shopaholic” — and prefers cooking at home to going out. “Do I go out to clubs? Noo. I have gone out thousands of times. Now I probably just work more.” Oh, and, of course, she’s married.
And don't forget the new movie coming out:
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