Kristin Davis is opening up about her past struggles with body image — and what her Sex and the City costar Sarah Jessica Parker had to say about it.

In the Monday, August 11, episode of her “Are You a Charlotte” podcast, Davis, 60, admitted to having a “thinness” issue while filming the beloved HBO series. Parker, 60, would say “you have body dysmorphia” when Davis brought it up, but the Deadly Illusions star isn’t so sure her costar’s assertion was accurate.

“I don’t think I do,” she told guest Benito Skinner, “because the world is literally telling me daily I am pear-shaped.”

But the conversations surrounding her body did lead to “disordered eating,” Davis admitted. “You’re starving yourself. I remember fainting in a parking lot one time because I was on some crazy diet.”

She went on to explain that at one point fans, during the time when the show was “on the old-school televisions,” would come up to her in public and assert, “Oh, but you’re not fat.”

“I know they didn’t mean anything bad, they meant it as a compliment,” she continued. “But it’s because I’m standing next to Sarah Jessica.”

Before Davis took on the role of Charlotte York on Sex and the City in 1998, she played Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place. In February 2025, Davis told People that her body was a topic on set — and at one point she was even told to maintain a certain weight.

Davis recalled that her former costar Thomas Calabro came to speak to her about the topic in her trailer one day. “He’s like, ‘Kristin, I’m so happy to see you here,’” she recalled. “‘I just wanna tell you, you know, I think you look great,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh, thank you. What are you talking about? What do you mean?’ He said, ‘Oh, I know that the producers are really stressed, you know, but I just think it’s amazing that we have a woman who has curves.’”

Davis then admitted she was confused. “I just think they shouldn’t, you know, put too much pressure on you,” Calabro reportedly continued, to which Davis asked, “What?”

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After speaking to Calabro, Davis said she went to speak to “the line producer.”

“And I’m like, ‘Thomas Calabro just told me that you guys are stressing about my weight. Did someone say something? Did Mr. [Aaron] Spelling say something?’ And he was like, ‘We think you look beautiful,’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, and?’ He goes, ‘Just don’t gain any weight,’” Davis remembered. “There was a general vibe on the set though, that was difficult, about the thinness situation. Every single person was gorgeous and super skinny. So I was like, ‘This is what I have to do.’”