I can see why SJP was such a big deal in her prime

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone remember her from Square Pegs? She's been around a long time. She's not conventionally attractive, but she is attractive nonetheless.

I remember her from Square Pegs. How about Annie? She was one of the original Annies on Broadway. Girl can sing.

Yes! And I remember seeing her in Annie when I was a kid!! I distinctly remember that day-waited so long to see Annie-tix must have been hard to get. And I remember that the original Annie, Andrea McCartle had just left the show and I was a little annoyed that I only got to see the "second" Annie! Also, it may have been the first time I realized that someone could use two whole first names as their name. I remember wondering if people called her "Sarah" or if they said the whole "Sarah Jessica" name and I thought that was weird. My mom told me that sometimes actors use their middle name because someone else in the actors' union may have the same first and last names- and they have to be original. I was probably 10 years old-I remember the whole day! The show was awesome and Sarah Jessica Parker looked really small to me but she could really sing (according to 10 year old me!).

I'm the second quoted PP. That's awesome! I'm about the same age and remember all the hubbub surrounding Annie (and Andrea McArdle). SJP goes by Sarah Jessica, which seemed odd to me at first but I've heard it enough in interviews now that it doesn't seem odd. I think she always went by that.

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Anonymous wrote:That top pic of her is great. I've always admired her. She grew up poor-- welfare family, living in a car poor-- and is lovely and successful. Always seems sweet and funny in interviews.

I've never heard this--can you share more info. / sources? Wikipedia says she had a pretty normal (preschool teacher / truck driver) family, and early training in dance & theatre (Broadway at 11), which doesn't exactly scream welfare.

I remember reading it long ago. Maybe I'm mistaken. I'll google around.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/30/business/talking-money-with-sarah-jessica-parker-start-welfare-riches-city.html

Here's one article.


''We were on welfare,'' recalled Ms. Parker, the curly-haired, slinky star and producer of H.B.O.'s ''Sex and the City.''

''I knew I was different from the kids who pay for lunch or bring their lunch from home. It was a stigma thing. I was not the only person receiving a free lunch, but you are aware.''

''I remember my childhood as Dickensian,'' she added. ''I remember being poor. There was no great way to hide it. We didn't have electricity sometimes. We didn't have Christmases sometimes, or we didn't have birthdays sometimes, or the bill collectors came, or the phone company would call and say, 'We're shutting your phones off.' And we were all old enough to either get the calls, or watch my mother's reactions or watch my parents shuffling the money around.''

I think I actually saw an interview with her a long time ago where she talked about it.

I'm surprised you haven't heard about it PP. It's a big part of who she is. Here is another more recent article about them packing all their belongings into a VW bus and moving to NY while her mother was pregnant with her 7th child (and then getting there and the subsidized housing apartment wasn't ready!)

http://pagesix.com/2017/05/22/sarah-jessica-parkers-new-york-life-had-a-rocky-start/

Eh. That hardly sounds harrowing. "We moved to NY and our apt. wasn't ready so we spent the night at a Holiday Inn and found a rental."

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Why is she aging so poorly?

She's resisting Botox/fillers/plastic surgery. She looks her age, which is in sharp contrast to most women in Hollywood. She's not aging poorly, she's just aging normally.

Her hands look like grandmamas.

I'm calling photoshop shenanigans on the hand.

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Why is she aging so poorly?

I am sure the smoking doesn't help, but part of it is the same problem I have. If you are naturally underweight, when you hit middle age, your face and hands look old because you don't have enough body fat.

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I'm surprised you haven't heard about it PP. It's a big part of who she is. Here is another more recent article about them packing all their belongings into a VW bus and moving to NY while her mother was pregnant with her 7th child (and then getting there and the subsidized housing apartment wasn't ready!)

http://pagesix.com/2017/05/22/sarah-jessica-parkers-new-york-life-had-a-rocky-start/

Eh. That hardly sounds harrowing. "We moved to NY and our apt. wasn't ready so we spent the night at a Holiday Inn and found a rental."

Do your own Google search then. 8 kids, one unsteady income, state aid and welfare, no electricity, free lunch, maybe not harrowing, but not exactly living the high life.

Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the youngest of four children. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother remarried an often-out-of-work truck driver. They had four more children. Raising eight children on one income was extremely difficult, and the Parkers eventually turned to state aid and welfare. Parker has used the term “Dickensian” to describe her early childhood in Ohio. They often went without electricity, and they didn’t always celebrate birthdays or Christmas. Elementary school was rough on Parker. She wore hand-me-down clothes or clothes purchased from the thrift store. Parker remembers that her teacher would call out the names of the “free lunch” children, and they would have to line up at the front of the classroom before lunch. “It was a stigma thing. I was not the only person receiving a free lunch, but you are aware you are different,” Parker stated.

https://esme.com/hall-of-fame/solo-mom-in-the-spotlight/sarah-jessica-parker-a-true-life-cinderella

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Love SJP!!

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Anonymous wrote:Love SJP!!

Me too! Why the hate?

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I'm surprised you haven't heard about it PP. It's a big part of who she is. Here is another more recent article about them packing all their belongings into a VW bus and moving to NY while her mother was pregnant with her 7th child (and then getting there and the subsidized housing apartment wasn't ready!)

http://pagesix.com/2017/05/22/sarah-jessica-parkers-new-york-life-had-a-rocky-start/

Eh. That hardly sounds harrowing. "We moved to NY and our apt. wasn't ready so we spent the night at a Holiday Inn and found a rental."

Do your own Google search then. 8 kids, one unsteady income, state aid and welfare, no electricity, free lunch, maybe not harrowing, but not exactly living the high life.

Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the youngest of four children. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother remarried an often-out-of-work truck driver. They had four more children. Raising eight children on one income was extremely difficult, and the Parkers eventually turned to state aid and welfare. Parker has used the term “Dickensian” to describe her early childhood in Ohio. They often went without electricity, and they didn’t always celebrate birthdays or Christmas. Elementary school was rough on Parker. She wore hand-me-down clothes or clothes purchased from the thrift store. Parker remembers that her teacher would call out the names of the “free lunch” children, and they would have to line up at the front of the classroom before lunch. “It was a stigma thing. I was not the only person receiving a free lunch, but you are aware you are different,” Parker stated.

https://esme.com/hall-of-fame/solo-mom-in-the-spotlight/sarah-jessica-parker-a-true-life-cinderella

if they were so broke, why did they keep having kids? poor and dumb

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Anonymous wrote:Love SJP!!

Me too! Why the hate?

we don't hate her. Her hands look like she works in the dirt. That's all.

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She is a butterface. Don't get me wrong she was adorable as Annie and in Square Pegs and even in that cheesy after school special with as the horseback riding girl and the "ghost" boyfriend.

She wasn't poor. Ashley Judd's mom tried to play the same schtick at least Ashley recognizes what the truth is. SJP had professional level dancing and vocal lessons. How do you guys not get this? Her parents might've been unconventional but they were definitely scamming government services if they were really on welfare.

She's sticking to a family narrative that was hammered into her head for so long that she thinks it's true.

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I'm surprised you haven't heard about it PP. It's a big part of who she is. Here is another more recent article about them packing all their belongings into a VW bus and moving to NY while her mother was pregnant with her 7th child (and then getting there and the subsidized housing apartment wasn't ready!)

http://pagesix.com/2017/05/22/sarah-jessica-parkers-new-york-life-had-a-rocky-start/

Eh. That hardly sounds harrowing. "We moved to NY and our apt. wasn't ready so we spent the night at a Holiday Inn and found a rental."

Do your own Google search then. 8 kids, one unsteady income, state aid and welfare, no electricity, free lunch, maybe not harrowing, but not exactly living the high life.

Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio, the youngest of four children. Her parents divorced when she was young, and her mother remarried an often-out-of-work truck driver. They had four more children. Raising eight children on one income was extremely difficult, and the Parkers eventually turned to state aid and welfare. Parker has used the term “Dickensian” to describe her early childhood in Ohio. They often went without electricity, and they didn’t always celebrate birthdays or Christmas. Elementary school was rough on Parker. She wore hand-me-down clothes or clothes purchased from the thrift store. Parker remembers that her teacher would call out the names of the “free lunch” children, and they would have to line up at the front of the classroom before lunch. “It was a stigma thing. I was not the only person receiving a free lunch, but you are aware you are different,” Parker stated.

https://esme.com/hall-of-fame/solo-mom-in-the-spotlight/sarah-jessica-parker-a-true-life-cinderella

if they were so broke, why did they keep having kids? poor and dumb

And how did they afford theatre and dance etc.?

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Clip about the life after tomorrow:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=

"Relative" poverty; her mother and stepfather didn't have to have high paying or a job at all--the kids were the gravy train:
https://www.biography.com/people/sarah-jessica-parker-9542042

SJP had a stage mom--she debuted on Broadway at 11 in a Pinter play; her brother was in Rent. It's been a long time since anyone's bee discovered in Woolworth. Professional children's school tuition plus the American ballet theater and 3 other siblings in musicals. They weren't all on scholarships. SJP should have her wages garnished for repeating the "we we're poor" BS.

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SJP that pretty much everything is on the internet now. A playbill article about how pretty much her whole family was working for the theater:
http://www.playbill.com/article/broadway-theatre-as-a-family-affair-com-100733

While in graduate school, her mother took her and her brother Toby to the theater (in Cincinnati) b/c it was "cheaper" than a babysitter. Okay, who was paying for the mom's graduate degree? Also they obviously didn't need babysitters--there's an 18 year age spread among the kids--some poor, less talented Parker sibling was the real Cinderella.

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And how did they afford theatre and dance etc.?

Her mother cleaned the studios in a barter for lessons when they were in Ohio. Once they moved to NY, SJP became the family breadwinner.

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Always loved her, and want her body!