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Character history

Character history

I revealed too much too soon. I was emotionally slutty.

Carrie writes a weekly column called "Sex and the City" for the fictional newspaper, The New York Star. The column focuses on Carrie's sexual escapades and those of her close friends, as well as musings about the relationships between men and women, dating, and New York. It provides Carrie with a certain amount of recognition in the city. People who read her column occasionally describe her as their icon. In the third season, her column is optioned for a film starring a fictionalized Matthew McConaughey. In the fifth season, some of her columns are compiled into a book.

At the end of season four, Carrie begins to write freelance articles for Vogue. Although she initially has trouble dealing with Enid (Candice Bergen), her abrasive editor at Vogue, she does find her feet, and ends up befriending her.

Carrie is an on-again, off-again smoker. She frequently smokes "Marlboro Lights". She tries to quit in seasons 3 and 4 using the Nicotine patch when she is dating Aidan. She enjoys cocktails (particularly Cosmopolitanser character's fondness for them helped to popularize the drink), but she is, at heart, slightly conservative. She is on an endless search for true love, and refuses to settle for, as she puts it, "anything less than butterflies." Despite this, she repeatedly expresses doubts that she is the type to get married and raise a family.

Carrie is a resident of Manhattan, New York. She lives in a brownstone on the Upper East Side at the fictional house number of 245, on East 73rd Street, between Park and Madison. She lives in this apartment throughout the series, and buys it in the fourth season. In the initial episodes of the first season, Carrie's apartment is seen to be above a coffee shop somewhere near the vicinity of Madison Avenue. By approximately the fourth episode, the usual facade of a series of brownstones adjacent to hers is adopted, and remains that way throughout the series. The first episode also features a different apartment from the one used for the next 93 episodes, and the movie.

Little is mentioned about Carrie's life before the series. At the beginning of the fifth season, Carrie states that her relationship with the city is "about 18 years," implying she moved to New York when she was 18 years old which causes many to speculate that she moved to the city to attend college (most likely NYU or Columbia). She says in the movie she's lived in her apartment for twenty years, meaning she lived in the city five years before moving in. She is most likely from a middle-class background, as Stanford Blatch mentions that she wore Candie's and took the subway when she first moved to the city. It is mentioned that her father left her and her mother when she was five; no siblings are ever mentioned. It is also revealed that Carrie had one abortion in the 1980s, after a one-night stand, when she was 22 years old. In the first season it is revealed that Carrie was not brought up religiously. After running into Mr. Big at church with his mother, she says "after being brought up in the church of be nice to people and don't speak with your mouth full", implying that she does not belong to any official religion. Though she had been dating for many years before meeting (and nicknaming) Mr. Big in the first episode of the series, he is her first true love, the man she thinks may be her soulmate. She tells Charlotte that she lost her virginity in Seth Bateman's smelly rec room on the ping pong table in the 11th grade. In Season 6 ("Boy Interrupted"), Carrie meets up with another boyfriend from high school named Jeremy (David Duchovny). Carrie states that she never had sex with this high school boyfriend because they were young and wanted to wait; however, earlier in the series she did tell Charlotte a story of losing her virginity in high school.

Wardrobe

Carrie has been described as someone who "lives for fashion," and has confessed to buying Vogue instead of dinner. A known shoe lover with penchant for expensive designer shoes (notably Manolo Blahniks, but also Christian Louboutin and Jimmy Choo), Carrie claims she has spent over $40,000 on shoes. Her pairs seem to average around $450-500, and it is implied that she has at least, if not more than, 100 unique pairs.

She frequently mixes kitschy vintage finds with high end labels. It is mentioned that Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman, and Saks Fifth Avenue are among her favorite places to shop. Carrie equates taking a boyfriend to meet her parents with taking a boyfriend to meet the sales assistants at Prada. Her friend Charlotte claims that Carrie dragged her to eight shows at New York's Fashion Week. Carrie once agreed to model for a charity fashion show (featuring both "real people" and models), on the condition that she could keep the outfit, a Dolce and Gabbana original. Carrie is also known to have worn Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Betsey Johnson, Chanel, Chlo, Christian Dior, Christian Louboutin, Diane von Frstenberg, Fendi, Givenchy, Gucci, Heatherette, Helmut Lang, Herms, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jeremy Scott, Louis Vuitton, Manolo Blahnik, Marc Jacobs, Marni, Missoni, Miu Miu, Moschino, Oscar de la Renta, Roberto Cavalli, Sonia Rykiel, Tom Ford, Vera Wang, Versace, Vivienne Westwood, among others.

Carrie's incredible wardrobe appears to be entirely unaffordable for a writer on a modest income. (At least until season 5 when she is given a book offer.) Indeed, many of the people around her comment that she cannot afford her shopping addiction. Carrie occasionally maxes out credit cards, could not secure a loan on her own due to poor savings and a bad credit rating as a result of extensive shopping, and has admitted her "shoe needs" have accounted for most of her spending; amounting in one episode to her humorous concern that she might "literally be the woman who lived in her shoe".

Carrie is particularly known for her addiction to shoes, calling it her "substance abuse problem" in the episode "Power of Female Sex" in Season One. Notable moments include an incident when she is mugged near West Broadway and the bandit makes off with her Manolo Blahnik pink suede strappy sandals that she purchased "half off at a sample sale!", adding that they are her favorite shoes.

Relationships

"Mr. Big"

Main article: Mr. Big (Sex and the City)

"Mr. Big" (Chris Noth) appears in the first episode as a wealthy man who ran into Carrie on the street, and later spotted her at a party. Their relationship is a story arc running the length of the series. At the start, she was intimidated and awed by him. However, eventually Carrie and Big share a friendly and often passionate intimacy, yet Mr. Big remains (in producer Michael Patrick King's words), "always slightly out of reach." Mr. Big's name is never mentioned in full until the last episode of the 6th season, where it is revealed his name is John through Carrie's cell phone caller ID. His full name is finally revealed in the movie as John James Preston.

They break up for the first time due to Mr. Big's inability to become emotionally intimate with Carrie. They eventually reunite, but break up again when Big announces work requires that he move to Paris. When he returns to the United States several months later, he and Carrie run into each other unexpectedly at a hoedown in the Hamptons. Upon his return, we find out that he has become engaged to a woman named Natasha who is 26 and works for Ralph Lauren in Paris. Carrie struggles to come to terms with Big's marriage but eventually begins a relationship with Aidan Shaw. She eventually has an affair with Mr. Big which she sobbingly confesses to Aidan prior to the wedding of her friend, Charlotte. She and Big continue a close, sometimes sexual, always flirtatious friendship up until the final episode where they finally reunite as a couple.

His full name is given as John James Preston in the movie. Carrie and Big, in a businesslike fashion, decide to marry. However, just before the ceremony, Big becomes overwhelmed by the media attention and the number of guests, and changes his mind. Later, he comes to terms with his feelings, and wants to marry after all, but Carrie, hurt and betrayed, blocks all communication with him, and unknowingly ignores his love letters and apologetic emails. Finally, after certain events in the movie, they unintentionally meet, come to terms with each other, reaffirm their feelings, and privately marry (the way Mr. Big originally envisioned).

Aidan Shaw

Manhattan furniture designer Aidan Shaw (John Corbett) is Carrie's next serious boyfriend after a breakup with Mr. Big. Carrie met him through her friend Stanford Blatch. Their first relationship ends when Carrie confesses, on Charlotte and Trey's wedding day, that she had an affair with Mr. Big. Later in the series, Carrie and Aidan get back together and become engaged. However, the engagement is broken when Carrie discovers she is not ready to marry him, and he is not willing to wait for her. During the sixth season premiere, Carrie runs into Aidan on the street. She discovers that he has married a fellow furniture designer, Cathy, and has a son named Tate (played by Sarah Jessica Parker's son). The two agree to meet for coffee; Carrie states in voiceover that "there are some dates you cannot wait to keep, and there are some you both know you will never keep."

Jack Berger

Following the end of her relationship with Aidan, Carrie begins to date Jack Berger (Ron Livingston), a writer with a mixed degree of success. She meets him while discussing her upcoming book at her publisher's (Amy Sedaris) office. He is a novelist, and feels insecure about Carrie's newfound success as a writer after her book goes international and she begins receiving high-sum royalties. That day, Carrie and Berger go for a walk, in which Carrie gets a strawberry milkshake from McDonalds. Berger states to her, "How can anyone order strawberry after the age of eleven?", and Carrie obviously likes his sense of humor. However, when she asks him to be her "Plus One" at her party, he states he has a girlfriend. After an initially rocky start (in which Berger must break ties with his ex-girlfriend, Lauren), they form a rather playful relationship, and one that initially seems to make Carrie very happy. As Carrie's success begins to mount, and particularly after Berger's second novel is not picked up for publication, the relationship deteriorates, culminating in a 'break' between the two. Berger returns, professing his love for Carrie, and stating that he wishes to try again. However, he ends up leaving later, in the middle of the night. Berger breaks up with Carrie on a Post-it note which reads, "I'm sorry, I can't. Don't hate me." After this hasty departure, Berger is referenced in only one more episodefter Carrie runs into his friends at a bar, she regrets leaving Berger an angry message (through his friends), stating that his break-up method was rude and pathetic.

Aleksandr Petrovsky

Next, Carrie meets and begins a relationship with Aleksandr Petrovsky (Mikhail Baryshnikov), in the sixth season. He is a rich, successful, and older Russian artist. Carrie enjoys the relationship, but problems arise when she discovers that he already has a daughter in his twenties, and he doesn't want any more children. Carrie feels forced to choose between a long-term relationship with Petrovsky and the possibility of having children. She decides to stay in the relationship, despite mounting evidence that he will never be able to fully commit to her emotionally, as he is very self-involved, and even at one point claims that Carrie is "not his friend, she is his lover."

He asks Carrie to leave her job and life in New York and move with him to Paris. After some degree of convincing, she accepts, but is disappointed and confused upon her arrival. She doesn't speak French fluently, and Petrovsky often leaves her alone in order to tend to his own career. In the series finale, Carrie leaves Aleksandr for Mr. Big, and returns with Mr. Big to New York.

References

^ Bravo > 100 Greatest TV Characters

^ Naomi Wolf (2009-12-22). "Carrie Bradshaw - Icons of the decade". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/22/carrie-bradshaw-icons-of-decade. Retrieved 2009-12-22.

External links

Official Carrie Bradshaw homepage

Carrie Bradshaw at the Internet Movie Database

Official Sex and the City homepage

Archive of the original Sex and the City newspaper columns

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Sex and the City (novel) Sex and the City (film) Sex and the City 2 Film soundtrack

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