She became a strawberry without… sex! Well, of course, Sarah Jessica Parker knows good sex, as well as her character Carrie Bradshaw; however, she didn’t use this knowledge in achieving success. How could this cute girl become a sex-symbol without a single nude scene?

Ingredients:

• huge talent;
• diligence;
• being disciplined;
• self-confidence;
• “why-not” ingredient

Usually strawberries grow up in gardens, but Sarah Jessica Parker was brought up in Nelsonville, Ohio. Despite being one of eight kids, Sarah got enough love and attention from her parents. When they saw that the girl is very interested in acting, the family moved to New York where Sarah could get proper training.

Of course Sarah did not cook her success alone, but the girl was very hard working and added many ingredients to her dish of success. She studied assiduously in many schools (the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati, the School of American Ballet in New York, Dwight Morrow High School in New Jersey, and the Professional Children’s School, Hollywood High School in Los Angeles, California), visited lots of castings and didn’t see any reason why she can’t become an actress!

The main ingredient that Sarah added to her dish is huge talent. For example, she is very organized and disciplined in real life, likes to plan her life and all events; she doesn’t smoke, doesn’t take drugs, doesn’t drink alcohol (says she doesn’t like the taste), has never been drunk, doesn’t like night clubs and parties, doesn’t like to dance, and had only a few relationships in her life (they all were serious and long-term). At the same time she was very convincing playing her total opposite – Carrie Bradshaw (we can even say that Carrie Bradshaw is anti-Sarah).

By the way, she played not just in the Sex and the City. Sarah started her career when she was a small girl and The Sound of Music was her first attempt to show the world that she is a great actress! Later there were many other movies (Square Pegs, Footloose, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, L.A. Story, Honeymoon in Vegas, Hocus Pocus etc.), mainly with less significant roles than in Sex and the City, but Parker always was well-received by critics. Maybe it was the thing that impressed Darren Star, the Sex and the City creator, and he offered Sarah her Star role.

We know what was after, and now we also see that a serious cooking process preceded this success. Sarah would never get this role if she didn’t try her best from the beginning, from that moment when a small girl Sarah Jessica Parker understood that she wants to become an actress and that there are no reasons for her not to make this dream come true!

Incidentally, many of us have an opinion that any actress should participate in nude scenes if she wants to become successful (or at least get on the screen), and of course this rule is obligatory if we are talking about such a sexy series as Sex and the City, but you will never find naked Sarah Jessica Parker neither in this show, nor in any other one. She didn’t need the “nude ingredient” to cook her dish of success because she had other, more important ones.

Vice versa, Sarah became famous for being a very stylish woman who knows how to dress up. Biggest fashion brands use her fame to increase values of sales. For example, when Sarah advertised hair conditioner “Garnier”, almost all television anchormen of New York began to use it! Sarah is considered a trendsetter: the next day after she shows up on public in a dress from a specific designer it becomes a fashion trend (speaking of the overnight success ). Besides that Sarah gives lectures on the history of fashion in the Metropolitan museum. Young designers and students spend hours in a queue to visit her lectures.

In addition, Sarah is a successful producer, a respectful stage actor, an entrepreneur (she launches fashion lines (Bitten – items with prices under $20), perfumes lines (Lovely, Covet, Covet Pure Bloom, Dawn, Endless, Twilight)). How many other talents does this cute sexy strawberry have? Sarah is an opposite to her character Carrie Bradshaw in everything except tremendous love to shoes and to New York City, but we couldn’t even imagine that she is such a “good girl”. Yes, she is a good girl with huge acting talent! In mix with diligence and purposefulness it helped Sarah Jessica Parker to cook her breathtaking success!