Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.