"I kind of enjoy the idea that you can be a lady and be slightly titillating and you don't have to take all your clothes off." Sarah Jessica Parker (Vogue - August 2003)
A Bit of History:
(Thank you Wikipedia)
Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio. She has 3 full siblings and 4 half siblings. Trained in singing and ballet, Sarah was cast in the Broadway production of "The Innocents", which prompted her family to relocate to New Jersey. Already a professional performer (she studied at the American Ballet School and the Professional Children's School), Sarah was cast in "The Sound of Music" (along with four of her siblings), and landed the lead in the Broadway run of "Annie". After a year on Broadway she went to high school , but after graduating, Sarah decided to pursue a full-time acting career rather than further her education.
She moved on to supporting film roles in movies such as Footloose (1984),and the lead role in the teenage film Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985). and a role opposite Nicolas Cage in Honeymoon in Vegas (1992). Broadway roles included "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (starring her present husband, Matthew Broderick), and the Tony-Award nominated "Once Upon a Mattress."
Sarah has been happily married to fellow actor Matthew Broderick for 13 years, and they have 3 kids, James Wilkie (7), and twin girls via surrogate Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge (18 months).
But Sarah's face came into my radar with the HBO series "Sex and the City" (1998). For those of you who have never seen an episode, shame on you. Go out and rent all 6 seasons right now and have a marathon. There is a bit of sex in the show which is a bit in your face at times, but I fell in love with the characters and the friendships and the fashion.
We all know what happened next, the movie followed, and then the sequel, and now SJP is in the fashion spotlight, rubbing shoulders with people like Anna Wintour of Vogue, the late Alexander McQueen, attending couture galas,
..and creating her own fashion lines and perfumes
Although some think that her style is a bit crazy, and working with Patricia Fields as a stylist for Sex and the City for so many years would definitely rub off, I think she has an elegance and a quiet confidence that carries through so that she looks great in everything.
Not only is she my style icon, but also a personal icon, a true rags to riches story of a girl who had a dream and worked hard to make it come true, a woman who has it all, but also has a heart (she is a member of Hollywood's Women's Political Committee, as well as UNICEF's representative for the Performing Arts.)
Hats off to you SJP for raising the bar and showing up that you can be a powerful sexy woman with a career and a family, and here's me hoping for another Sex and the City movie, or at least a few more romantic comedies..
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