Sarah Jessica Parker is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood (she banked an estimated $30 million last year), enjoys her own fragrance line, and has played one of the most iconic characters of our time.  “I didn’t plot a future like this, although I know some people do,” she tells PARADE in this Sunday’s issue. Parker, 46, gets real about what her life is really like, discussing everything from her marriage to actor Matthew Broderick to life with her son, James Wilkie, 8, and her 2-year-old twin girls, Tabitha and Loretta.

On fraternal twins Loretta and Tabitha:
“They’re talking, they’re running, they need me.  Loretta is deeply inquisitive: ‘Do you see that, do you hear that, Mama?’ She constantly checks that we are connecting with her.” Her sister is the family princess: “Tabitha does not give; she receives.”

Babysitters? Yes. Live-in help? Not for them.
“We love closing the door and having the only people in the house be our three children and us. It’s such a good feeling to know that we’re competent and capable and that it’s private.”

Any chance for a third Sex and the City movie?
“There is. I know what the story is. It’s a small story, but I think it should be told. The question is, what’s the right time to tell it?”

Ever think the real-life Carrie Bradshaw would spend her Sundays in the suburbs? Check out the full story in PARADE and learn how Parker and Broderick have changed each other after spending nearly 20 years together. For more from PARADE’s cover story on SJP, visit Parade.com:
http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2011/08/sarah-jessica-parker.html

Plus, you’ll never guess what unusual items she likes to shop for. (Hint: They’re not clothes!) Click here:
http://www.parade.com/celebrity/2011/08/sarah-jessica-parker-extras.html

 

Take a look at Elle Magazine’s January 2011 newsstand cover featuring Sarah Jessica Parker. The issue drops on December 15, and photo credit is Tom Munro.

Interview Highlights:

On aging naturally:
“I don’t know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I’m aging all the time. It’s like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?”

On meeting the twins after their birth:
“[Meeting them] is hard to describe. Everything is suspended. I can’t even tell you what other sounds were in the room. I loved them immediately, but everything—their size, the shape of their heads, the color of their hair, their noses, their eyes—was new to me. They looked surprisingly different from James Wilkie, which I wasn’t expecting.”

On her reaction to being offered the position of President and Chief Creative Officer at Halston and Halston Heritage:
“I kept saying, ‘You understand, by offering this you are going to be criticized?’ It took me a long time to say yes.”

On taking her role at Halston very seriously:
“I said, ‘Please know this now: I will never do this for a title. I will never dip in and out of this. I’ll do it like everything else I’ve ever done. I’ll be involved down to the splitting of the atom.’”

On her daughter Tabitha’s style:
“She’s crazy for bows; she wants her head covered in them.”

To See More Photos and Info From the Sarah Jessica Parker Cover Story Visit:
http://www.elle.com

 





 



 

Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker




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Kristin Davis and Chris Noth

 




 

The ‘Sex and the City’ actress – who has nine-month-old twin daughters Marion Loretta and Tabitha Hodge and seven-year-old son James Wilkie with her husband Matthew Broderick – admits her mornings are so hectic, she feels like she is in both a comedy sketch and army operation at the same time.

She said: “Honestly, it’s funny. It’s comedic. It really is. There is so much organization and advanced planning that happens, like a military operation and with a seven year old who has needs, too. They’re different. The bag is less but it’s crazy.”

The 45-year-old star has also admitted she was amazed by how dramatically her life changed when she went from being a mother-of-one to suddenly having three children.

She explained: “There’s no sugar- coating it. It’s wonderful. It’s what we wanted. We didn’t want twins but we wanted a bigger family and it’s a blessing. It’s a thrill. But it couldn’t be more different. I mean, it’s daunting in the beginning with all the paraphernalia: the diapers, the ointments, the bottles, the pacifiers. the list just goes on. With two more, you’re carrying suitcases. It’s hilarious.

“They’re as different as they can be. It’s wonderful. It’s good for them, that they will be their own people.”

Sarah has also admitted she doesn’t mind being a working mother as long as her children are “healthy” and “loved”.

She told new! magazine: “I see a lot of working women all over the world having to juggle those two things. The most important things to me are my children and their well-being, and that they are loved and that I have created a life for them that is healthy and nurturing. If that is the case then I can make the choice to work. If that is not the case and the situation doesn’t allow for that, then I don’t work, so I try to make choices based on that.”

 

Sarah Jessica Parker and Halston may be banking on fashion sequels: The storied designer label reportedly has hired the “Sex and the City” star in a creative role.

Halston is tapping Parker for its newly announced Halston Heritage collection, a less expensive extension of its signature collection, according to Women’s Wear Daily.

The company wouldn’t confirm reports of the partnership, but did say an announcement of some sort was forthcoming within the next week. There was no immediate response to an e-mail to Parker’s publicist Friday.

Halston’s glitzy image from its heyday of the disco era – with the late Roy Halston Frowick turning out jersey jumpsuits and the like for the Studio 54 crowd – had become tarnished in recent years with a disappointing relaunch in 2008.

Parker, meanwhile, found herself without a home for her own once-popular line Bitten after retail partner Steve & Barry’s filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors.

But Parker is still considered one of the most influential celebrities in the fashion world and insiders think she and Halston would make good co-stars.

“If she is to come to Halston, I know that she will do an incredible job and finally get the brand back to being a Halston that is respectful of Mr. Halston and his legacy but also move it forward to what women today want to wear,” says stylist and commentator Mary Alice Stephenson.

Parker’s style-icon “SATC” character Carrie Bradshaw has already been shown in the trailer for “Sex and the City 2″ in a white dress from Halston Heritage, a brand extension with retail prices ranging from $55 to $595.

Marios Schwab remains the designer for the main line, which has a slot on the calendar at New York Fashion Week in February.

Halston couldn’t have hired just any boldface name as a partner, says Stephenson, who styled Parker for a memorable Harper’s Bazaar cover with the actress – in Chanel – running across the Brooklyn Bridge. “She’s probably the only actress who could pull this off.”

Lindsay Lohan was tapped as artistic adviser to Emanuel Ungaro with much fanfare last fall; just weeks later her work for the label was trounced by fashion critics.

“There’s a big difference from this than Lindsay Lohan,” says Suze Yalof Schwartz, Glamour magazine’s executive fashion editor at large. “Lindsay’s name isn’t synonymous with fashion, whereas when you think about Sarah Jessica Parker, you think about the clothes.”

Schwartz considers Halston lucky to have Parker: “There would be no one better to revive that label.”

 

A former Ohio police chief was sentenced to prison Wednesday in connection with a break-in at the home of the surrogate who bore twins for Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick.

Barry Carpenter was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. He was convicted last month on charges of receiving stolen property, theft in office and evidence tampering but acquitted of other counts, including burglary.

His attorney, Dennis McNamara, vowed to appeal.

Belmont County Common Pleas Judge John Solovan called prison time a “must” in the case, and Carpenter was immediately taken into custody after the hearing. A special prosecutor had said Carpenter could have received up to six years in prison.

The judge noted that he had received letters in support of Carpenter from members of the former chief’s family, friends and police officers.

Carpenter resigned two weeks ago as chief in Martins Ferry, where the celebrity couple’s surrogate lived. Prosecutors said he broke into Michelle Ross’ home in May, took items related to her pregnancy and the surrogacy and conspired with police Chief Chad Dojack of neighboring Bridgeport to sell the items to celebrity photographers.

Dojack is scheduled to go on trial in January on two counts of complicity to burglary and one count of complicity to receiving stolen property.

Carpenter testified that he saw a door to the home open and went in to check it out. He said he photographed a surrogacy file that contained two ultrasound pictures and a plaster cast of a pregnant stomach, but did not remove anything from the house.

Ross said during the trial that she was staying in a West Virginia hotel at the time and later returned home to find that ultrasound photos, surrogacy files and tax information were gone. She also testified that someone had apparently rummaged through some photos and that the plaster cast, made when she was pregnant with her own son, was misplaced.

Ross gave birth to the twin girls June 22 at an Ohio hospital.

Messages seeking comment on the sentence weren’t immediately returned by Carpenter’s attorney, Special Prosecutor T. Shawn Hervey, and Parker-Broderick spokesman Simon Halls. There was no answer at the number for a lawyer for Dojack.



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