'Sex and the City 2': Fantasy or Farce?

Women in their 40s call the movie a fantasy they're willing to indulge in.

ByABC News
May 18, 2010, 1:23 PM

May 19, 2010— -- In the poster and previews for the upcoming "Sex and the City" sequel, Carrie Bradshaw may look like she's turned back the hands of time, but in real life 45-year-old actress Sarah Jessica Parker, a mother of three, admits she feels "old and tired."

Most women Parker's age -- including Parker herself -- lead lives very different than Carrie's.

"I don't feel like Carrie -- my life is so different, my choices are different. But I love her. I love playing her and everything about her -- the good, the flawed, the mistakes, the bad choices," Parker told Heat magazine recently.

Asked by the magazine to reveal the secret to her beauty, Parker quipped: "I don't have one. I feel old and tired! I have children I run round after, I try to walk as much as possible, and other than that I buy every cream possible."

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\"It's very Hollywood,\" George told ABCNews.com. \"They amp up the glamour. But it doesn't bother me. It's what we love. And the scenes that run through it can be very true and relevant.\"

Even though Rebecca Michelman, 44, a Manhattan art dealer, has experienced some of that glamorous lifestyle firsthand, her own life is about to change dramatically with the birth of her first child.

\"A lot of what I love about her is her butchness. I'm not saying I fell in love with her in a sexually neutral way. I love her sexuality -- it's a big part of what I love about her -- but I feel like it was her,\" Nixon told the Advocate recently.

\"It wasn't something in me that was waiting to come out. It was like, this person is undeniable. How can I let this person walk by?\"

Meanwhile, Kristin Davis, who plays Charlotte, a stay-at-home mom who couldn't wait to be married, remains unmarried, though she was recently linked to photographer Russell James.

\"My life is very, very different from Charlotte's. I'm much more independent,\" she once said. \"I feel like it's important to say that not everyone has to get married. Everyone thinks it's very important that we have to be paired off all in twos. 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