Candace Bushnell: The True Inspiration for SATC's Carrie Bradshaw 

Goddamn. She must have been blowing money on shoes like Carrie.

I don't know, in NYC? That might not have gone very far

@@gregorywiederechtit definitely did go far. Most rent started at $600 for a studio/1br. That was definitely doable

thats whats confusing me. even in NY, $2000 a month sounds pretty good. maybe I'm wrong or she was exaggerating

But she wasn’t talking about when she first arrived in 1977. She was talking about when she lived with her friend Ann, as shown in the picture, in 1988.

My mom and I don’t have a lot of money AT ALL… I’ve had my one horse for 7 years. It’s called making sacrifices for the things you love

@@princessalliecat8 I don't begrudge you your passions and certainly not implying you're some secret privileged millionaire - but not having money at all isn't sacrificing for things you love, it's sacrifice for the things you need. It's surviving. I think OP is just commenting on the absurdity of saying she didn't grow up with alot of money because she rode 'backyard' horses. She didn't not grow up with money - she just grew up with less money than her rich neighbours.

FAAAACTS🤣 literally my exact thought

@@mockingbellesTHIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

I grew up poor and we rode horses.

they.. really don’t

​@@dmtrv.mthey do but don't lmfao

That sounds like a girl I knew who grew up in Santa Barbara her dad is a millionaire and she grew up very well off, but claimed she wasn't spoiled because she had friends with much much more money.

Why do ppl tell their whole life stories just to make 1 point on the internet nowadays.

@@vivafree5070Why not?

🙄Roechelle famously says" my man has 2 jobs" and during every major holiday Julius wpuld pick up a 3rd 😑 R/1stworldproblems

@@klae7058 that show is famous with fully black Afro Caribbeans, Afro Brazilians and Afro Latinos. My point was that he had an excellent MAIN job with benefits that he could retire from as a legal American citizen. All of my dad’s (3) jobs were under the table.

good observation! thanks for pointing that out xx

I remember that, it was when she slept with a rabbi

Either way. It's excessive. It's sick.

@@peekaboots01 Indeed. The more I remember Carrie, the more I dislike her. She is a lousy friend, I never understood why she was the dearest friend of each of the other three. It was all about her - me, me, me. But there are also other things, beyond character flaws, that always unnerved me. What woman in her mid 30s going on 40s and living alone, doesn’t know how to cook, not even a fondue?! And she’s a professional, yet she adopts “shoegal” as her e-mail address. More than childish, it’s stupid. Not to mention her complete ignorance of how e-mailing worked. She doesn’t speak any language. What kind of education has she had?! I’m Portuguese, and I also speak and write French, English and Spanish fluently. She has appalling table manners, she talks with her mouth full (sometimes we even can see what she’s chewing), she gesticulates with knife and fork all the time. Again, what kind of education has she had, and what background does she come from? In the first film, she has never watched Meet Me in St. Louis, a revered classic. In the second, she has never watched It Happened One Night , another revered classic. Had we suffered a third film, perhaps we would discover she had never watched Casablanca either. 🙄 I know she’s a fictional character, but the woman gets on my nerves more than words can say.

yes!!!! and drink cosmos and wear manolos XD

It was a hard, horrible read, I couldn't finish it either. She was so lucky someone bought it to make it a series. I won tickets to hear her speak, I was so excited, what a disappointment. Her speaking skills were as bad as her writing, IMO

​@@lisawende5161 well you saved me some time, and money

thank you so much for the love! 💖 SATC truly was a cultural shift, redefining how we talk about relationships, friendships, and life in general. glad to see it still resonates with so many!

I have to admit I haven't see this series yet. would you recommend it?

@@KasiaSopniewska I would recommend it but, I haven't watched in a while so I don't know if it aged well. It only lasted 2 seasons, the leads were played by Kim Raver (Teddy on Grey's), Brooke Shields and Lindsey Price, and it was kinda SATC but focusing also in the careers of the characters, not only relationships.

@@KasiaSopniewska it didn’t age well. They came off too pretentious. I tried to watch but couldn’t finish.

I was so annoyed when they cancelled that. So much potential.

*mic drop* what a brilliant observation!

yes, you are right! sorry, we all make mistakes. thanks for pointing that out xx

The fact that it's Upper East Side makes it even more unrealistic 😶

I just visited it in the West Village or you mean in the series?

I wish it was winter 4 me too

thank you so much! i really appreciate it xx

You’re so welcome - happy Fourth of July! 💖💖

My thoughts exactly

Sammmmmmeeee

i hope it that the video didn’t disappoint 😬

@@KasiaSopniewska i loved it! i learned much more about candance through this, also i remember when lipstick jungle was a short-lived series. i wish it got more than a season, i could be mistaken but it probably got cancelled due to the strike in 2007-2008

how come? that's really surprising to hear. could you please elaborate?

She only made $60,000 for the book rights & gets no royalties from the show or movies.

@@writerchick3202wow

​@writerchick3202 Yikessss that's a scam

thank you 💕 happy Sunday

thank you I appreciate that xx

Not true

wow! how was she?

@@KasiaSopniewska she a sweet heart. I felt bad for the heart ache she went through. She married a younger guy named Charles Askgaurd. Look him up. He danced with New York City Ballet. Unfortunately he had an affair with another dancer. She wrote a book. And Candace pulled a boss move by outing the mistress in public. We ran in the same social circle. Try reading the articles Candace wrote before the book. The NYC party scene was much different than it is now. I lived it during the late 80’s till early 2000’s. I think this is why so many of the up and coming generations fail to understand the SATC show. And yes, if you check out some of Candace interviews she did get screwed when it came off to selling the rights to the show. The first and second season were true to the articles and book. By the third and so on they had kicked her to the curb and taken the character into a whole new direction. She said that she based all the characters in different friends in her life. So Carrie is a mixture of her and other women she knows. And yes there was a real Mr. Big. But she didn’t marry him in real life. He married someone else.

yes I am polish, but I live in Switzerland, which you can def hear in my accent :) hope that clears things up

good to hear

thank you! i appreciate that so much 💕

thanks for the correction. Carrie does indeed live on the Upper East Side, not the West. appreciate you pointing that out xx

No she was married age regrets not having kids

I get it, the book is both deep and shallow, which makes it hard to read. with few recurring characters, it's tough to form an emotional connection with anyone.

@@KasiaSopniewska Exactly. I related to the characters on the TV show, but the book left me cold.

The apartment was rent controlled but later up for sale.

She didn't own her apartment until much later. Before, it was rented to her.

Rent controlled until she purchased it at the end of season 4 (or the end of season 5?).

@@Rubik_Bee Yes! She was a male identified ‘pick me’. And not like other girls ‘cool girl’ in her delulu mind.

@@Morenita570 Shaking my head

@@Rubik_Bee they all end up getting got. Her Mr. Big slept with her while he courted and then married who he really wanted. And the ballet dancer (whose sexuality I question) ran off with her assistant. She’s a boomer and none of what she pushed on gen x worked. That’s why we’re in the midst of a dating reset.

why?

you're so right!

Carrie is a character born in the late 60s like Miranda and Charlotte. Really well written gen Xers.

Nope gen x. But also how can someone be obnoxious and boring? 🤔

Yes, the SATC foursome are GenX. The author, Candace Bushnell, is a Boomer. I genuinely loved Samantha's bravery and honesty, Miranda's intellect and sarcastic quips, Charlotte's love and loyalty to her friends. Carrie, however, just irks me with her inability to really be a good friend. She slut shames Samantha, condescends to Miranda, and expects Charlotte to come along and clean up her messes. How about the way she treats Aiden? And the constant screeching scream was definitely obnoxious. Side note, you scream like that over every little thing, then when you are actually in trouble, no one is going to take it seriously. I appreciate that others have a different point of view, this is just mine. I didn't care for Carrie, I thought she was prudish, and for all her preaching about friendship, a very surface level friend.

The boomer is Samantha. Born in 1958. I wish someone could do a series about Samantha arriving in New York in 1975 - 1976 when she was a poor nobody from Florida.

As a Millennial, I never found SATC particularly relatable. The intense focus on the "norm" being heterosexual and settling down to marry and have children just doesn't exist so much now (at least where I have lived in Australia and the UK) and the female-identifying people in my life have never spent an inordinate amount of time agonising over their dating lives. Neither have I. People are much more focused on careers, hobbies, travel etc. Romance just isn't this be-all-and-end-all thing anymore.

lol