'Sex and the City' star Kristin Davis slams 'shocking' negative comments about her looks in the revival: 'Fuck you people'

• Kristin Davis said photographers would come to the "AJLT" set "trying to get bad pictures."
• Negative comments about her body make her "angry," so she avoids social media.

Kristin Davis is fed up with people making negative comments about her appearance after paparazzi would come to the "And Just Like That" set "trying to get bad pictures," she recently told The Times UK.

The single mother of two admitted that she wasn't expecting the comments to be as severe they were. "Everyone wants to comment, pro or nay or whatever, on our hair and our faces and our this and our that. The level of intensity of it was a shock," she said.

Seeing this criticism upsets Davis, and as a result, she said she tries to avoid looking at social media whenever possible lately. "I feel angry and I don't want to feel angry all the time, so I don't look at it, I just know it's there," Davis explained.

Davis also reflected on how the media focused on her weight while the original series was airing.

"They would write articles every week about how I was 'pear-shaped', which I didn't feel was a compliment at the time," the "Sex and the City" star said of her past media coverage. "It would stress me out a fair amount because I couldn't avoid it. I kind of feel like that's how it is now too."

But Davis, who is far blunter than her alter ego Charlotte York-Goldenblatt, said she eventually adopted a different attitude toward her haters. "I feel like, 'Fuck you. Fuck you people, like, come over here and do it better.'"

Davis said in an earlier interview on the "Today" show that costar Sarah Jessica Parker is joining her on the social media cleanse. "Sarah and I are currently in a media blackout," she said, adding that costar Cynthia Nixon "is tougher" so she's not going off social media. "So we're like, 'You tell us later, OK?'"

While harsh, the criticism is not exactly surprising, given how few TV shows focus on stories about women in their 50s.

"And Just Like That" writer Samantha Irby previously called the honesty the revival is embracing when telling stories about aging female bodies "revolutionary" in Vogue. "There's so much misogynist chatter in response to us that would never. Happen. About. A. Man," she said, referring to the fact that Nixon's character Miranda does not dye her hair.

"And Just Like That" is available to stream now on HBO Max.