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Yahoo
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kristin Davis Shares ‘Strange, Cult-Type' Rules of Working on ‘Sex and the City'
Kristin Davis revealed that the cast had to follow some odd protocols on the set of Sex and the City. 'I remember there were … strange, cult-type elements about being in that cast where there were like some rules,' Davis, 60, shared with Sex and the City writer Jenny Bicks on her 'Are You A Charlotte?' podcast on Monday, March 31. The actress, who starred as Charlotte York in the original Sex and the City series from 1998 to 2004, revealed that they weren't allowed to wear scrunchies or banana clips — and the rules would 'come slowly' as they worked on the show. 'They weren't all in the beginning,' she noted. 'No hose unless they were fishnet. We went through a whole fishnet phase. If you could find double fishnets that was great. If you could find nude double fishnets even better.' Kristin Davis Recalls Being Ghosted by 'Very Successful' Actor After Lending Him $5000: 'Horrible' Davis explained that there was also a 'heel-height situation' which took her 'a while to get on board with' working in such high heels. 'Part of the problem is you can blame your costar Sarah Jessica Parker because she could run in those things,' Bicks, 61, added. 'She made it look so easy.' Davis agreed with Bicks, saying that they 'always had to live up to' Parker, 60, before going on to share other rules for the cast, which included always having to return borrowed clothes, only wearing Cosabella G-strings and having no 'functional' coats. 'We could go down the list of approved brands and not approved brands. There was a lot,' she noted. Aside from the little rules they had on the set of Sex and the City, Davis recently got candid about what it was like filming intimate scenes without intimacy coordinators when the show first aired in 1998. Kristin Davis Reveals the Unexpected Reason She Didn't Want to Break Up With Alec Baldwin 'I did not feel protected,' Davis told People in February. 'I had to hide in my dressing room at the end of the scenario. I had to hide in my dressing room and call my manager in L.A., at 2 in the morning.' Davis explained that the cast 'didn't exactly know' what they were doing when it came to sexuality at the beginning. 'I also feel like we didn't talk about it as a group in a way that would've been helping and would've happened now,' she shared with the outlet, adding that over time the sex scenes 'became much more our gaze as it should be' and about them 'being comfortable.' Sex and the City, which starred York, Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon, followed the lives of four female friends living in New York City and explored themes such as sex, relationships, friendships and femininity.
Reuters
05-03-2025
- Health
- Reuters
In China, a designer rethinks lingerie for women who have had breast cancer surgery
BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) - Emily Yu, a longtime Beijing-based lingerie designer, has devoted some five years to developing bras and prostheses for women who have had a mastectomy - hoping her products will help them regain confidence. The founder of Ginger Ah, China's first lingerie brand to develop both bras and the artificial breasts, says they struggle to fit comfortably into clothing post-surgery. A typical prosthesis shifts around in a bra and sometimes comes out, Yu said, adding that artificial breasts made from silicone are also heavy and can irritate the skin. Yu has patented a foam prosthesis which comes in three sizes and two colours and fit into pockets in the company's bras. Other design considerations include bra straps that can be adjusted from the front as post-mastectomy women can experience restrictions in arm movement. Making the designs attractive was also paramount. "Another thing breast cancer survivors want is beautiful underwear, they don't want the ugly ones on the market... which are plain with just a hole for a prosthesis," Yu said. "So they don't want that, because they are originally a very beautiful person." More than 350,000 women in China are diagnosed with breast cancer annually. Approached by a surgeon in 2019 who was seeking comfortable options for breast cancer patients, Yu was struck by the gap in the market. The issue became personal when Yu's best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after. The friend became Ginger Ah's first product tester and the company's first products hit the market in 2021. Since launching, Ginger Ah has sold over 12,500 bras. Global lingerie giants including Cosabella and Victoria's Secret have also begun offering post-mastectomy bras in recent years. Yu recalls the first time she did a fitting at her home in Beijing, one woman hugged her and then burst into tears. "I only learned later, for breast cancer patients, hugging from the front is difficult because they feel insecure," Yu said. "I hope one day each of them will have the courage and comfort to do a head-on hug. At that point, I think we'll have really succeeded." Keep up with the latest medical breakthroughs and healthcare trends with the Reuters Health Rounds newsletter. Sign up here.
