The 58-year-old actor on books, Botox and the $50 face cream she swears by.
Five minutes before I meet Sarah Jessica Parker in a hotel suite in Covent Garden, her PR pulls me aside in the lobby saying, “Please can you not ask her about ageing. She’s had enough of talking about it.”Credit:This is definitely a first for me as a beauty journalist. Most celebrities I meet are the face of a skincare brand or are extolling the merits of a certain cosmetic tweakment and are there to talk about how they’re combatting the signs of ageing.
, Parker has tried Sofwave and used to do glycolic peels at the dermatologist, but Botox is a definite no.“I can’t speak for other people, and I’m not opposed to anyone doing anything. It’s just not something I choose to do. Also, I’m an actor – I have to move my eyebrows. I’m meant to be sharing emotion and communicating with my face, which, for me, needs to move.
“She did influence my perfume choices though. I can remember her wafting down the corridor on her way out, leaving a beautiful trail of White Linen by Estée Lauder. My first perfume was Lauder’s Aliage, which was quite peppery.” Today she’s wearing a mix of Guerlain’s old-school Vétiver and Dyptique’s Eau Rihla .
What about her love of clothes and shoes? “Well, the girls and I do share some tops, but most of my good stuff is all in storage. My closet is way smaller than all of my friends’ ones, by the way. And there are no doors to it, just curtains. I have a lot of grey sweatshirts in there,” she laughs.