Why Sex and the City star Kristin Davis has never married

At 58 and raising two adopted children as a single mum, Kristin Davis has never been married – and that’s just the way she likes it.

Kristin Davis. Picture: MAX / BINGE

Kristin Davis has no intention of ever tying the knot — unlike her twice-married Sex and the City character Charlotte York.

“We have very different lifestyles, you know?” Davis, 58, said of Charlotte — who was famously desperate to be a perfect wife throughout the series — on this week’s episode of Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin’s podcast Best Friend Energy.

Davis continued, “I’m not married, I have never been married, it’s not my thing, I was never focused on it.”

When Teplin noted that Charlotte’s “whole thing” was about being married, Davis joked, “That took some acting, let me tell you. It really did.”

L-R: And Just Like That stars Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kristin Davis in 2010. Picture: AFP

But Davis admitted that she still finds common ground with the preppy friend of Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), and Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon.)

“The essence of my personality is the same [as Charlotte’s] because I think after 25 years, like, how could it not be, you know what I mean?” Davis, who revives the role of Charlotte in the SATC reboot And Just Like That, said.

While she never plans on walking down the aisle herself, the actress said that one of her favourite Charlotte moments in the show was when she married on-screen husband Harry Goldenblatt (Evan Handler).

Turns out, Davis isn’t much like her most famous character.

“I’m not really a wedding girl.” Picture: Getty

“I loved my first wedding,” she laughed. “I’m not really a wedding girl but, you know, Charlotte loved it so I loved it.”

But Davis did note that she wasn’t a fan of the Vera Wang wedding gown Charlotte wore while saying “I Do.”

“I must have tried on 35 Vera Wang dresses … we tried on every Vera Wang dress that existed,” Davis recalled. “The poof one won and it was just like such a weird thing because it’s not my thing at all. Like I would not wear that dress, if I did get married.”

The super-traditional Charlotte was married twice on Sex and the City. Picture: James Devaney/GC Images

She furthered, “No, I would not be wearing that veil. I wouldn’t be wearing any of it. But I was devoted to it. Do you know what I mean? Like a character seeps in you and you love it because she loves it.”

In the show, Charlotte met Harry when he was working as her divorce lawyer following her failed marriage to Trey MacDougal (Kyle MacLachlan).

Davis keeps her current love life under wraps, though she previously dated Liev Schreiber, Alec Baldwin and Aaron Sorkin.

She was also rumoured to be dating Steve Martin in 2005, but Davis denied that they ever dated during a 2022 appearance Watch What Happens Live! with Andy Cohen.

Davis adopted her daughter Gemma Rose, 12, in 2011 and her son Wilson, 5, in 2018.

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission.

Originally published as Why Sex and the City star Kristin Davis has never married