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Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
Sarah Jessica Parker: fashionista. Her son? Not so much.
"[James Wilkie, 5,] only wears hand-me-downs because I’ve got all these older nephews,” Parker, 43, says in the newest issue of Parade magazine.
“That’s the God’s honest truth," swears the Sex and the City star. "Plus, my mother saved all my brothers’ clothes. I am not kidding. I don’t think I’ve ever bought him any clothes. Maybe a new winter's coat…."
Here's no shocker for the footwear obsessed Carrie Bradshaw: "I do buy him shoes, because everybody's feet are different," says Parker.
Parker grew up as one of eight siblings in an impoverished family, and doesn't want her son to be spoiled.
"I think that if I had been raised a child of privilege, I wouldn’t be the working person I am today," she says. "I think it’s incumbent on my husband [Matthew Broderick] and me to really stress and to show James Wilkie by example what it means to owe your community something and that he is not entitled to the benefits of our hard work.
"That doesn’t mean that I’m withholding or keeping from him the joys of childhood — I’m not Joan Crawford," she stresses. "But I also don’t want him to think the world he lives in is the real world. It’s not.”
Parker, who says she's more comfortable in the role of James Wilkie's mother than any other on-screen, insists on being a hands-on mother.
"I put him to bed every night. I get him dressed. I'm the one who gives him his toothbrush. I take him to school every morning," Parker says. "He's very small, but his personality is 6 foot 4."
Her day-to-day is a far cry from Bradshaw's glamorous life, which she portrayed on HBO for six years. Parker says her co-stars have also grown up in the movie, which hits theaters May 30.
“Carrie and Charlotte and Miranda and Samantha aren’t young anymore,” Parker says. “Their lives are much less frivolous. They can’t cope with their problems by putting on their sweats and staying up all night and ordering in food and gossiping about the men in their lives.
"There is less self-absorption but perhaps a little more self-awareness," she adds.
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
WOW
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
Love her. I started watching the S&TC episodes on demand recently and realized how much I missed that show.
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| Posted 5/9/08 8:58 AM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
I think that's pretty cool of her...
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| Posted 5/9/08 9:28 AM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
I love hearing her talk about her son. She seems like a great mommy!!
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| Posted 5/9/08 10:08 AM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
I love her and she seems so normal. I totally believe her son wears hand-me-downs because every pic I've seen of him he has some crazy mismatched looking outfit on.
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| Posted 5/9/08 10:33 AM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
she seems like a really grounded person, she's someone i'd love to have lunch with!!
and we share our birthday!
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| Posted 5/9/08 12:35 PM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
I love her too. I don't believe the rumors that she's a b*tch..
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| Posted 5/9/08 12:43 PM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
Posted by GossipQueen
"That doesn’t mean that I’m withholding or keeping from him the joys of childhood — I’m not Joan Crawford," she stresses. "But I also don’t want him to think the world he lives in is the real world. It’s not.”
Good for her for instilling values. Too many kids have such a sense of entitlement today.
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
Posted by Bugaboo
I love her and she seems so normal. I totally believe her son wears hand-me-downs because every pic I've seen of him he has some crazy mismatched looking outfit on.
I was thinking the same, it's so true!  I didn't realize they always call him by his first and middle name. I'm not sure about the Wilkie bit... 
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Posted by JennyPenny
I love her too. I don't believe the rumors that she's a b*tch..
ITA!
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| Posted 5/9/08 2:08 PM |
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JenBenMen
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
i am much more of a snob with my son
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| Posted 5/9/08 2:48 PM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
an acquaintance of mine is SJP's sister in law - she says that she is the most down to earth person you could meet.
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| Posted 5/9/08 8:31 PM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
good for her, these celebu tots need to be taught a thing or two!
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
she seems very down to earth
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| Posted 5/10/08 8:03 AM |
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She rocks
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| Posted 5/10/08 9:07 AM |
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i totally love her...
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| Posted 5/10/08 10:21 AM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
Very cool. She seems like a great Mommy. I don't know if I would be able to resist buying something new if I had all that money but I love that she is trying to raise him to be more "normal" That is a much more valuable thing for his future.
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| Posted 5/10/08 1:54 PM |
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
Posted by dottiemchugh
I love hearing her talk about her son. She seems like a great mommy!!
ITA! but they didnt give the poor kid a nickname? calling him James Wilkie everyday must get tiresome! 
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Re: Sarah Jessica Parker: "My Son Only Wears Hand-Me-Downs"
She does seem like an awesome mom and totally down to earth
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