Sarah Jessica Parker Talks About Her Life after Sex & The City

She may be best known to us as her stylish TV character, Carrie Bradshaw, but Sarah Jessica Parker's son James Wilkie, 4, prefers to see his mom in plain old sweatpants.

She says laughing, "He saw me dressed the other night and said, 'I want you to go right back upstairs and take that dress off!'

"His strongest feelings about my clothing are that I take it off because that means I'm staying home."

People magazine recently talked with the star about her life after Sex & The City, her new fashion line, and her 10th wedding anniversary.



On James Wilkie's fashion choices:
"I let him make those decisions for himself, but I did make him wear what he calls 'fancy shoes' - which is just a simple, white leather boy's shoe - at my brother's wedding. He really wanted to wear his Crocs. He was upset about it, but I promised he could put on his Crocs the second we got home. He reconciled to that."

On designing her new fashion line:
"It always seemed very unsavory to ponder a real design job. I don't sketch. I don't know how to sew. But I am acutely aware of what it means to not have the things you need, let alone the things you want. And you should be able to have affordable, quality fashion."

What she learned style-wise from Sex & The City:
"That there shouldn't be rules! I always believed in hardcore aesthetic rules - "No white after Labor Day." And I matched, because I thought that was ladylike.

On James Wilkie asking tough questions:
"He goes to school with a lot of kids who have different families from his, so he'll be like, "Jen has two mommas" or "Charlie has two poppas." And so we've been talking about what it is to be gay; I want him to understand it in terms that aren't overwhelming to him. But he asks about everything. Death is a very big conservation piece."

On what she finds difficult to explain to him:
"The things that are far more complicated for me to answer are any kind of science questions. He has a really keen interest in science. I have basic fundamental knowledge - but I don't know what he's going to do about homework! I'm glad my husband's smart about that sort of thing."

On how she celebrated her 10th wedding anniversary:
"In a private way! He did write me a card, and I didn't have to ask, which was really nice."

On being married 10 years:
"It's a total of 15 [since we met]. I'm really shocked! Not because I'm shocked that we lasted - it's just a lot of years."

Source: People