I was going to hold the Sarah Jessica Parker stories until we got some photos of tonight’s Sex and the City premiere in London, but it’s deader than dead around here, so why not? CB and I have both been a little tired with SJP, honestly. CB confessed that she tried to watch an SJP interview and all she felt was “fake fake fake”. Personally, I don’t think SJP is fake, I just think she’s full of sh-t. Horsesh-t, to be exact. Anyway, SJP has a bunch of new interviews, and most of them are about how fabulous the movie is (everyone else disagrees), how much all of the fabulous clothes cost ($10 million), and how she’s the world’s most hands-on mother. Except for those nine weeks where she dumped her newborn twins on the nannies. Oh, I enjoyed this Parade interview because of the subtext of Matthew Broderick’s “secret life”.
“I will never live anywhere else than New York because I just simply cannot leave the heartbeat of the city. I cannot do it. We have no space in our house in Manhattan. We’re bursting at the seams. I know there are homes with more than two or three bedrooms in the suburbs, but I just couldn’t move there, even to get extra room. I love New York too much,” Parker says.
Sarah Jessica Parker soared to fame and fortune as Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City, on HBO and on the big screen. Now, in Sex and the City 2, Parker is feeling a little closer to Carrie, who’s married and still living in the Big Apple. Parker, the proud mother of three kids with Matthew Broderick, juggles marriage, family and career. But she knows which comes first.
Sarah Jessica says, “I love just being with my family — going to the grocery store, cooking dinner, putting my twins to bed, changing their diapers, getting my older son ready for school and packing his lunch. Staying home with my family and my husband is the thing I love most in the world. Is it sexy? I don’t know about that, but it sure is fun and it’s definitely unpredictable.”
Matthew won’t mind watching her smooch with Chris Noth and John Corbett in SATC 2.
“We’ve been together for years. Both of us have starred in movies opposite lots of beautiful, smart, interesting people. But we have still come home to the same house, to each other. Matthew isn’t jealous when I’m in a movie with a sexy guy. He doesn’t seem to show any degree of being threatened by it. I don’t know, maybe he doesn’t care.”Matthew Broderick deserves a secret life.
“I like having some mystery in our relationship. I like not knowing everything about my husband. I think people should have things that are theirs, things that are the unknown to someone else. I think it’s good to have some privacy and some secrets in our lives.”The secret to keeping up with your best friends.
“You can be a good friend even when you barely have time. Make the effort to send a note, or call and say, ‘I’ve got children screaming in the background, but I miss you and I love you and I think about you. You’re on my mind, even if I don’t get to tell you every day.’ I think your real friends understand that there’s lots of responsibilities you have with your family, but you just figure out how to nurture your friendships any way you can.”
[From Parade]
I’m all for keeping a little mystery in the relationship, but it’s like SJP is saying, “I know he’s fooling around, with God knows who, but whatever.” Also, when SJP was on Letterman two nights ago, she called Matthew average. Shocking! She was talking about James Wilkie’s height and how he’s “for the moment, more on the diminutive side. Some might call it a Napoleon complex, it [his age] gives him some [confidence] because he is so mature. He’s a brainiac… well I think so, naturally… He’s not quite tiny – that’s on my husband’s side – well, actually Matthew is average… not in personality or in intellect…. no, no, no, no, no… Let me clear this up. For the record, not in personality, intellect, charisma, talent, genuine likeability, well the list could go on and on… Anyway he’s average in height as I understand so the odds of our son being average in height and weight is perhaps promising.” I couldn’t care less that she’s talking about Matthew’s average-ness, but I feel for James Wilkie. That must suck to have your mom call you out on national television for being “more on the diminutive side.” Jeez, Mom.
By the way, if you want to read a slightly interesting piece about Pat Fields and why she dressed the SATC women like drag queen-maniac-clowns, HuffPo has a good one.
cannot f*cking stand her
She seems to be content with her life as it is so would rather not know if he is fooling around as long as it stays private.
Weird comment about Matthew not being threatened because he may not care. Odd comment and maybe it says more than she intended.
She’s beyond rich. She’s beyond famous. Money helps you overlook a lot.
“We’ve been together for years. Both of us have starred in movies opposite lots of beautiful, smart, interesting people. But we have still come home to the same house, to each other. Matthew isn’t jealous when I’m in a movie with a sexy guy. He doesn’t seem to show any degree of being threatened by it. I don’t know, maybe he doesn’t care.”
Yes, Sarah. He doesn’t care. Because he’s too busy looking at a sexy guy himself.
She’s the kind of New Yorker I like. She tells you how great it is and keeps her skinny ass up there, as opposed to the ones who migrate down here to Florida.
A mini-Sharon Stone in the making.
C’mon, like she can’t afford something bigger than a two or three bedroom place in Manhattan?
And yeah, I sort of detect a lack of..shall we call it “enthusiasm” between Matthew and SJP. He always looks like he’d rather be with someone else and she looks like she’d rather just be with herself (cloned, that is).
The cash that SATC (TV series) generated, should have made her enough cash for a life time. I am kind of surprise she has not purchased a bigger home. Lord knows there is enough pricey real estate in NYC needing a buyer.
But sadly it is hard to hide from the looks that Matthew B. gives when he is out at these events with her. He does looks miserable. But I always wonder if it is cause she became so wildly success and over shadow him. (in his mind)
I am still stunned that he agreed to have more children with her. It really did look like he was done with the marriage.
I really LOVE that yellow dress!!!
Their marriage does seem…different. And oddly so that she throws out comments like the “maybe he doesn’t care” to the media. Who knows.
LOL at her trying to make it sound like they all live in a 2 bedroom apartment. I’m pretty sure they have a townhouse in the West Village, so I’d be willing to bet good money has more than 2 or 3 bedrooms.
I’m with Chelly…I am lovin’ that dress. And I am no SJP fan…
oh please, my little pony lives in a fucking townhouse in the village. it’s 3 stories and huge.
SJP has been a helpful role model for me. Check this out:
* I’ve often been the last one picked during a slow song at a school dance.
* I like fashion and know how to dress stylishly – but throughout my life I’ve overheard people critizing me amongst themselves saying, “Who does she think she is?! She’s NOT PRETTY!” as if that means I should dress in something hideous to match that fact . . .?
* There have been a handful of fellas who’ve really flipped for me and considering me so beautiful they would assume I must be a little conceited and very popular in clubs and such.
* Finally, except for a precious heavenly few years when I first started dating, my relationships have been the kind where everyone knows my partner is over me – but ME!
So – those are many of the reasons I have a special place in my heart for SJP and I wish we were friends.
I don’t know. I think she has always had a killer body. I remember that from a movie she was in decades ago with Bruce Willis, a cop movie I believe. She has maintained a fab body since and a great sense of style.
As for the husband, I have heard things over the years – nothing specific – just hints of things and the fact that he has been and is on Broadway – if you know what I mean.
The fact that they have been married so long speaks volumes, however. Good for the kids.
P.S. That dress is killa’. She wears yellow better than anyone I know.
Oh c’mon she’s JUST trying to be witty… and not succeeding at it. But she’s way better than many “intelligent” actresses.
Matthew never looks happy and always has that look “like I would rather be somewhere else” whenever he is standing next to SJP. It is not only this article but in other photos I have seen of the two of them.
I don’t know. I really don’t understand why people like gossiping about these two. When she’s not promoting SATC stuff, they’re a pretty low-key couple who are occasionally followed around by paparazzi. If she does suspect he’s cheating on her and feels too scared to be alone so turns a blind eye, them I’m sorry that’s she’s in such a demoralizing situation. If she’s just trying to communicate in her own sort of awkward way that some privacy and space is good for a relationship, then I’d 100% agree. Showbiz relationships are hard – She and Matthew don’t need gossip rags dissecting and scrutinizing ever aspect of their relationship from what they see and hear at premiers, on talk shows, and in magazines.
Once again, I haven’t seen anything to indicate that either of them are mean-spirited or more self-involved that your typical Hollywood A-listers, so I don’t see the obsession some people have with hating on them (her specifically).
Those comments are totally taken out of context. I saw the Letterman interview and it was tongue in cheek and Letterman kind of steered it in the direction of making it sound like she implied her husband was average. On the contrary, she was trying to say the opposite. Of course, all I read on the internet is that sound bite of “her husband is average”. She never said or implied such a thing.
Same with the Parade interview. I’m sure that interview was edited to emphasize the secret part. I’m certain there was a lot more said that wasn’t written.
I agree with the previous poster that these two pretty much keep it on the downlow and try to carve out some privacy when they can. SJP has often tried not to comment on their marriage when asked directly because she knows these slanted journalistic articles will be written. They seem happy. Leave them alone.
Weird comment about Matthew not being threatened because he may not care. Odd comment and maybe it says more than she intended.
Yes, RobN, that jumped out at me as well. Maybe she’s ok with the (same sex) cheating?
She looks amazing in that yellow dress.
As for her marriage, maybe it’s an open relationship?
His body chemistry says , he is so not into her. He looks completely disinterested. She needs to stop lying to herself.
Oh screw you CB she didn’t effing DUMP her twin babies for NINE effing weeks! It was 7 and they COULD NOT go with her! It was the worst part of FLU season, I guess you wanted her kids to get sick and DIE rather than stay home SAFE with their effing FATHER! Whatever. SJP couldn’t take them because they didn’t have their vaccines. Back off already. It isn’t going to hurt them! They aren’t even going to remember her being gone! They were BARELY two freakin months old!!
Those weird comments are just off hand jokes…she’s pretty modest and self depricating in interviews. I saw that Letterman interview and she was referring to Matthew’s height as average but Letterman joked that he she meant something other than height. I am sure the Parade comment is more of the same…