Kristin Davis Says Comments About Her Appearance In “And Just Like That…” Made Her Angry

December 13, 2021 / Posted by:

And Just Like That… premiered last week, and that shit sucked harder than Samantha Jones blowing a delivery boy in her office. Fans criticized how the show handled Kim Cattrall’s absence, Carrie’s lack of response to **SPOILER ALERT** Big’s death by Peloton (CALL 911!!!), those cringe attempts at addressing racism, and Charlotte’s, um, “updated” face. In a new interview with The Sunday Times 56-year-old Kristin Davis says that the intensity of the comments about her onscreen appearance “shocked” and angered her.

via People:

“Everyone wants to comment, pro or nay or whatever, on our hair and our faces and our this and our that,” she said. “The level of intensity of it was a shock.”

She added, “I feel angry and I don’t want to feel angry all the time, so I don’t look at it, I just know it’s there.”

Kristin doesn’t explicitly mention cosmetic surgery, but anyone who’s seen a before and after photo of the actress can put two and two together. That being said, it must feel pretty crappy to give in to the pressure to look young, and then read thousands of comments about how you fucked up your face.

Kristin says that this isn’t the first time she’s faced media criticism:

“They would write articles every week about how I was ‘pear-shaped,’ which I didn’t feel was a compliment at the time,” she told the Sunday Times. “It would stress me out a fair amount because I couldn’t avoid it. I kind of feel like that’s how it is now too.”

She adds:

“But I also feel — I’m going to be blunt — I feel like, ‘F— you. F— you people, like, come over here and do it better.’ You know what I mean? Like, what are you doing?”

The actress pointed to social media as a driving force in such criticism, explaining, “That’s the problem with social media, right, is that you don’t know what those people are doing. You don’t know anything about them. They’re just hurling bombs at you. It makes me angry.”

Last month Sarah Jessica Parker told Vogue that the judgemental comments about her and her co-stars’ appearances is “misogynist chatter” that would never happen to men:

“It almost feels as if people don’t want us to be perfectly okay with where we are, as if they almost enjoy us being pained by who we are today, whether we choose to age naturally and not look perfect, or whether you do something if that makes you feel better,” Parker said. “I know what I look like. I have no choice. What am I going to do about it? Stop aging? Disappear?”

Damned if they do, damned if they don’t. I can relate. If I don’t watch And Just Like That…, I’ll be completely out of the loop. But if I do, there’s a very good chance I’ll end up scooping my eyeballs out with a soup spoon. Sigh. Fucked on all fronts!

Pic: HBOMax

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