Kristin Davis admits: I was a binge eater

Kristin Davis, best known for her role as Charlotte on “Sex and the City,� is hardly the name that comes to mind when you think “fat actress,� right, Kirstie Alley? Yet petite Davis says she’s struggled with her weight over the years and has even resorted to binge eating to ease her pain.

Davis told the Scottish Daily Record about her experiences while working for a television series early in her career. “Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services…and I would eat.� When a producer told her she had to lose some weight, Davis says, “I decided that I was going to be very tough and run seven miles, three times a week. I was killing myself. My ankles hurt, my knees hurt and I was working 18-hour days.� Davis is likely referring to her days as Brooke on “Melrose Place,� though a look at promo pictures from back then shows that she was hardly overweight at the time.

Kristin still suffered from poor body image when she was signed for “Sex and the City.� She told SDR that a reporter taunted her after learning she was to star on the show. “Who do you play? You can’t play Candace [Bushnell - basis for Sarah Jessica Parker’s character] because you’re way too heavy,� he said.

“I tried not to cry and said I had to leave. I immediately walked to the drug store and bought a bunch of cookies because that was my reaction…to rebel and say, ‘to hell with you, I’m going to eat what I want,’� Kristin revealed.