It's hard not to get "carried away" with our love for Sarah Jessica Parker.
After all, she played Carrie Bradshaw, one of the most iconic characters on television. She even lives right down the street from the Sex and the City (SATC) character's apartment!
But there is actually a lot more to Sarah than just Carrie. Come learn why with these 10+ facts fans didn't know.
She was one of eight children! Sadly, her father, Stephen, left the family when she was only one.
This left her mother, Barbara, having to care for all those kids on her own until she met Sarah's stepdad, Paul Forst.
After Sarah and her family moved to New York, she landed a part on two Broadway shows, The Innocents and Annie.
Her talent was apparent from a young age as she was bumped up to the lead role of Annie the next year.
This hurts to even think about. But after gaining sucess on Square Pegs, the actress was afraid of being pigeonholed to TV.
She was also wary about the subject matter of the show, i.e. all the nudity and crass language.
Thankfully, she got "carried away" in the end, agreeing to take on the part on one condition: that her contract specified no nude scenes.
Carrie almost was — gasp! — a brunette. That's because actress Lisa Edelstein was signed up to play the part.
“It wasn’t a rumor, that actually happened,” Edelstein told Access Hollywood.
“My contract was complete. I was waiting," Edelstein said.
As we all know, Sarah ended up taking the role. Edelstein later took on a Carrie-like role in The Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. (Good show, BTW!)
This was the kind of feud that not even a cosmo could fix.
“We’ve never been friends,” Cattrall said during an appearance on ITV‘s Piers Morgan’s Life Stories.
Their rumored drama goes way back to the original series when Cattrall negotiated for a higher salary.
Any beef between them started up again after reports stated that Cattrall put the ax on the third Sex and the City movie for demanding too much.
This was back in 1991 when he was directing a play at the theater that was founded by Sarah's brothers, Pippin and Toby.
"I do remember first meeting her," Broderick told the YES Network. "I still remember very clearly seeing her walk down the street toward the movie theater…" Aww!
Their surprise wedding took place at Angel Orensanz Synagogue on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
They've been together for almost 23 years now and have three kids: a son, James; and twin girls, Marion and Tabitha.
While chatting with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens: Live back in 2016, SJP admitted it's the one thing she'd change about her big day!
"There was a store that I liked that I knew, and I just went and got whatever they had hanging."
That's so...Carrie Bradshaw marrying Big in the first Sex and the City movie!
"I'd wear a beautiful, proper wedding dress, like I should have worn that day.
SJP elaborated to Martha Stewart Weddings in 2015, saying she'd want an "Oscar de la Renta feel, pockets below the waist, a very fitted bodice, a huge skirt, in taffeta and duchesse satin."
SJP and RDJ were truly the "it" couple of the '80s.
The pair met when they were both 18 years old and moved in together after only eight weeks of dating.
“I was so selfish,” Robert admitted.
"I liked to drink, and I had a drug problem, and that didn’t jibe with Sarah Jessica, because it is the furthest thing from what she is."
"I was in love with Sarah Jessica . . . and love clearly was not enough.”
While she gave up the dream of being a ballerina for acting, she did tell NPR that dancing has helped her career.
"[It] allowed me to be physical in my work — and that's not something everybody wants to do, or can do, or thinks of integrating," she said.
It helped her with Carrie Bradshaw, too.
"Running all the time, or moving around, finding ways to be physical in lots of things, [it] has been maybe something that I call upon."
This comes from many years of walking around in her beloved Manolo Blahniks.
Parker even created a shoe line with the shoe designer herself! But beauty can come at a hefty cost.
"I went to a foot doctor and he said, ‘Your foot does things it shouldn't be able to do. That bone there…You've created that bone. It doesn't belong there,'" she told ET.
Say whaaat?
Parker revealed this shocking tidbit during an interview with Interview magazine. "I never had a real Cosmopolitan, like really, really truly."
In case you're wondering what she drank as a cosmo on SATC, she said that it was "probably cranberry juice and water and slices of lime or lemon and a chilled glass."
Unlike her Sex and the City character, Sarah doesn't spend all her money on expensive shoes.
"He only wears hand-me-downs because I’ve got all these older nephews," she told Parade about her son's clothes.
Ugh, the nerve.
"Am I really the unsexiest woman in the world?" she said during an interview with Grazia magazine.
"Wow! It's kind of shocking. It's so brutal in a way, so filled with rage and anger."
"Do I fit some ideals and standards of some men writing in a men's magazine? Maybe not."
She went on to say the news upset her hubby, too.
"It upset him, because it has to do with his judgement too. It's condemnation, it's insane. What can I do? I guess you can't please all people."
Sarah learned that her 10th great-grandmother, Esther Elwell, was accused of practicing witchcraft while living in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trial craze in the 1690s.
The actress was relieved to find out that Esther's life was spared because she was accused of witchcraft in November 1692, about two weeks after the court had been dissolved.
