Kristin Davis opens up about being ‘relentlessly ridiculed’ for her facial fillers
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“I have done fillers and it’s been good and I’ve done fillers and it’s been bad."
With the second season of ‘And Just Like That’ just around the corner, Kristin Davis is busy talking all things Charlotte York Goldenblatt, aging in Hollywood—and the ageism she faces regularly. Particularly when it comes to her looks.
During an interview with The Telegraph, the 58-year-old actress opened up about her experience with Botox and facial fillers, and the criticism she received because of it.
When the first season premiered in late 2021, a lot of “Sex and the City” fans came out of the woodwork to offer their opinions on how the actresses—Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Cynthia Nixon—had aged in the years since they were last together on-screen.
“It’s hard to be confronted with your younger self at all times,” Davis acknowledged. “And it’s a challenge to remember that you don’t have to look like that. The internet wants you to—but they also don’t want you to. They’re very conflicted.”
She tells The Telegraph that when she first began dabbling in cosmetic dermatology, she started with Botox. She says after that, she “didn’t do anything else for a long time.”
And then, eventually, she tried fillers.
“I have done fillers and it’s been good and I’ve done fillers and it’s been bad,” she says. “I’ve had to get them dissolved and I’ve been ridiculed relentlessly. And I have shed tears about it. It’s very stressful.”
Davis makes a good point about the trolls and hurtful commentary—it’s not her fault she doesn’t look the way people want her to look (not to mention age the way people want her to age).
“I can’t keep it up. I don’t have time. You’re trusting doctors [but] people personally blame us when it goes wrong – [as if] I jabbed a needle in my face.”
She talks about getting fillers and some work done on her lips, specifically.
“No one told me it didn’t look good for the longest time,” she says. “But luckily I do have good friends who did say eventually. The thing is you don’t smile at yourself in the mirror. Who smiles at themselves in the mirror? Crazy people.”
Meg Ryan has recently been the subject of similar criticism—because how dare women age? They’re expected to reverse the hands of time and remain at society’s preferable age forever, and then when they get cosmetic procedures meant to prevent aging, they’re bullied about their looks. It’s exhausting.
As for playing the role of Charlotte for all these years, well, Davis couldn’t be happier—even if the Park Avenue brunette of the bunch has always been a little, uh, high-maintenance.
“Looking back, says Davis, ‘”She [Charlotte] was so stressful. But I wouldn’t change a single thing about her because she’s had growth. That’s why it’s still so interesting to play her.”
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