Sarah Jessica Parker says she was too shy to appear nude in 'Sex and the City': 'It wasn't a morality thing'

• "Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker explained why she never appeared nude in the HBO show.
• Parker said she "just didn't feel comfortable doing nudity."

Sarah Jessica Parker is arguably best known for her role as writer Carrie Bradshaw in HBO's raunchy "Sex and the City," as well as its revival series, "And Just Like That."

But the star has opened up about the nudity in the show, explaining that she never went nude because she was too shy to do so.

Appearing on Howard Stern's radio show on Thursday, Parker was asked whether she was the only candidate to play Carrie when creator Darren Star wrote the series.

The 58-year-old actor explained how Star told her that he wrote Carrie "with you in mind," and that she was impressed by the script, but she was concerned about potentially having to do nude scenes at some point in the series.

"I thought the script was really interesting, and really exciting, and different, and fresh, and I'd never seen anything like that," said Parker. "The only thing I said to him that I was concerned about was that I just didn't feel comfortable doing nudity, and I suspected that if it wasn't in the pilot, it would be a part of a series."

However, Parker said that Star didn't pressure her to do any nude scenes.

"He said, 'Don't do it then… we'll have other actors, if they feel comfortable doing it, they'll do it, but you do not have to,'" she recalled.

Stern then asked if her concerns were about her body image, or being perceived differently as an actor.

However, Parker said she "just never felt comfortable" with the idea of doing nude scenes.

Parker added: "I think I just never felt comfortable exposing myself that way. I never had any judgments about anybody else doing it, it wasn't like a morality thing… I was shy."