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It's Time to Stop the Nasty, Ageist Comments: 'And Just Like That–' Co-Stars Speak Up About Getting Trolled For Their Appearance, And We're

It's Time to Stop the Nasty, Ageist Comments: 'And Just Like That–' Co-Stars Speak Up About Getting Trolled For Their Appearance, And We're

By Stacey Lindsay
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Last week, the much anticipated “Sex and the City” revival—”And Just Like That…”—aired, and there was one thing people couldn’t stop talking about: the co-stars’ looks. “Everyone wants to comment, pro or nay or whatever, on our hair and our faces and our this and our that,” Kristin Davis, 56, told the Sunday Times’ Style Magazine. “The level of intensity of it was a shock.”

Sarah Jessica Parker also commented on the Internet’s focus on appearance in the December issue of Vogue. ““[On social media] everyone has something to say. ‘She has too many wrinkles, she doesn’t have enough wrinkles,’” Parker said. “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. I know what I look like. I have no choice. What am I going to do about it? Stop aging? Disappear?”

Bravo to these incredible women taking a stand against the misogynist chatter about their looks!

Read more here.

Stacey Lindsay

Stacey Lindsay is a journalist and the author of BEING 40: The Decade of Letting Go—and Embracing Who We Are (from The Open Field).

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