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SARAH JESSICA PARKER - 5 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ME

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July 24, 2023

THE AND JUST LIKE THAT... STAR OPENS UP ABOUT TOUGH TIMES, LIFE DREAMS & HER BIG CRUSH

SARAH JESSICA PARKER - 5 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ME

I GREW UP POOR

“I remember my childhood as Dickensian,’’ recalls Sarah Jessica, 58. “We didn’t have electricity sometimes. We didn’t have Christmases sometimes…or the phone company would call and say, ‘We’re shutting your phones off.’” Still, Sarah Jessica always had lots of love, in addition to access to the arts. “We went to the theater and the ballet and the opera because all of that was free.”

I WANTED TO BE A BALLERINA 

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