Why Kristin Davis’ Charlotte had a baby late on ‘Sex and the City’

And just like that, Kristin Davis gave fans another nugget of behind-the-scenes knowledge from Sex and the City. Turns out that her character, Charlotte, and Cynthia Nixon’s Miranda were supposed to be pregnant together.

Davis explained on a recent episode of her Are You a Charlotte? podcast that Michael Patrick King, the writer and producer from the original HBO series about close friends navigating love in New York City, would take each of the stars — her, Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kim Cattrall — to lunch ahead of a new season. He would explain what was planned for their characters and hear their questions.

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“It wasn’t always written in stone [what he said],” said Davis, who’s played her character through the 1998 to 2004 show, two films, and sequel series And Just Like That. “For instance, at one point, the idea was that Miranda and Charlotte would have babies around the same time. And the idea was that we would then contrast the two parenting styles, from Miranda and Charlotte, who are obviously very different. And I was very excited about that, because that’s what Charlotte wanted, right? So I was like, ‘Oh, thank God, she’s gonna get what she wants. It’s gonna be wonderful.'”

And it probably would have been, if it had happened. As fans know, Charlotte struggled with infertility with two different husbands before she and her second one, Evan Handler’s Harry, decided to adopt. The problem was that the writers couldn’t execute two parenting stories.

“It was too different from their lives for them to write about,” Davis said, “and I was so crushed, so crushed.”

Davis said the show then lived by a rule, which And Just Like That still has now, that “all of the storylines had to be either a storyline that the writer went through themselves or that was one degree separated from the writers, cause they had a friend who went through it.”

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There simply weren’t enough parents around. So viewers saw Miranda unexpectedly become pregnant with her boyfriend, Steve (David Eigenberg), and decide to become a mom, with or without him. But Steve is only too excited to become a dad. Meanwhile, Charlotte struggles emotionally, and her longing for a baby is sometimes exacerbated by seeing her friend grumble about her impending motherhood. But it gives the two a closeness.

“But then, in the way that it played out, in terms of Miranda getting pregnant by mistake, deciding to have the baby with Steve, Charlotte not being able to get pregnant with her super-adorable husband — that was the whole purpose of getting married — it really worked out so perfectly.”

Charlotte becomes pregnant and welcomes a second daughter in the first of the movies.