Sarah Jessica Parker is taking steps to encourage her youngsters to have a “healthier relationship” with meals and diet than she did when she was rising up.

Appearing on the “Ruthie’s Table 4” podcast this week, the “Sex and the City” actor stated she doesn’t set strict guidelines in regards to the quantity of sugar her 14-year-old twins, Tabitha and Marion, eat.

“When I had girls, I didn’t want them to have a relationship with food that was antagonistic, or they felt like this was their enemy,” Parker defined in a clip from the episode. “When I was growing up, we weren’t allowed sugar in the house, and we weren’t allowed cookies, and we weren’t allowed chocolate.”

“And, of course, all we did, the minute we moved out, was buy Entenmann’s cakes and cookies, and I didn’t want that,” she stated. “In our house, we have cookies, we have cake, we have everything. And I think as a result, you kind of have a healthier relationship.”

In addition to the twins, Parker additionally shares a 21-year-old son, James, with husband Matthew Broderick. The couple had been married in 1997. 

And although Parker and Broderick are most related to New York, they’re presently residing in London, the place they’re starring in the West End production of Neil Simon’s comedy “Plaza Suite.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Parker acknowledged by no means having been “very disciplined” about her weight loss plan, and attributed her toned determine to her early years of dance coaching and stay efficiency. 

“It’s certainly not the same now,” she stated.

By not depriving her youngsters of particular meals, Parker believes they’ll additionally develop much less inflexible concepts about physique picture.

“My daughters will have the figures they have, and hopefully they’ll be healthy,” she stated. “They’re athletes and they enjoy food and they have different palates, and you can’t make someone like something they don’t like or want.”

She went on to notice: “I hope that they can maintain their affection for the experience and their delight in taste, and find their own ways to have that be healthy for them.”

Listen to Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Ruthie’s Table 4” interview under. 

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