Sarah Jessica Parker ashamed of family as a child

Sarah Jessica Parker was ashamed of her family when she was growing up because they were poor.

“A big part of not having money as a kid isn’t that you haven’t the stuff you want. It isn’t being without heat, or the phone and electric company sending cut-off notices. It’s lying in bed late at night worrying. You feel ashamed that your family is so radically different,” she admitted recently.

“Other families had stable lives and nice homes they could invite their friends to visit. Those things didn’t happen in our family. So it was a little bit like embarrassment on top of embarrassment.”

“But the worst is that, even more than food and shelter, you worried about your parents’ anxiety, which was palpable in the house.”