Yahoo News Kim Cattrall: 'Sex and the City made kids impossible'
Kim Cattrall has opened up about why she never had children.
During a very candid interview on Piers Morgan's Life Stories, the star admitted that she did want to have a baby but playing Samantha Fox on Sex and the City made it near impossible.
When she first signed up for the show in 1998, the actress and her then-husband Mark Levinson were considering IVF.
However, when she realised how demanding the series was, the couple come to the conclusion that the procedure wasn't a realistic option despite both wanting to become parents.
She said: "That was in my early 40s and I had just started filming Sex and the City. The chances of getting pregnant with these procedures... Well, everyone was talking about it.
"But I thought to myself, I have 19-hour days on this series. I had weeks where I finished on Saturday morning. My Monday morning would start at 4.45am and would go on until [Tuesday] 2am. How could I possibly continue to do that? Especially in my early 40s."
Although she did want to have children at one point in her life, Kim, now 61, has previously insisted that she doesn't regret not starting a family.
During an interview with BBC Radio, the actress explained that she considers herself a mother anyway despite never giving birth.
She said: "It sounds like you're less because you haven't had a child. There are many different ways to be a mum in the world.
"I am a parent. I have actors and actresses that I mentor. I have nieces and nephews that I am very close to. There is a way to become a mother in this day and age that doesn't include your name on the child's birth certificate."
Piers Morgan Life Stories is on ITV, tonight (Monday, October 23) at 9pm.
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