She is usually fiercely protective of her privacy. But Sarah Jessica Parker provided a rare sneak peek into her domestic life she posed for a new editorial spread alongside her family for America’s Vogue magazine. The 46-year-old actress looked elegant and demure as she watched over her two-year-old twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, in one beautiful shot from the pictorial. The twins, who were born in 2009 via a surrogate, look suitably adorable in baby doll dresses and Mary-Jane shoes as they play in a chaotic, but still oh so stylish, kitchen. In another frame, she covers her ears while her son James, 8, plays Rock Band with his friends and even recruits her husband Matthew Broderick for a sophisticated black and white portrait. Still, she insists she isn’t always thrilled by the attention her family attracts and admits that she’s considered leaving New York for a quieter life. ‘You do start to understand the behind-the-gate mentality, the getting in the car in your driveway, but I can’t imagine living in seclusion.’ ‘We flirted with it. We went outside the city and troubled all these realtors and stood in these homes and fantasized, and then I kept picturing nine o’clock at night and’ she trailed off miming a yawning expression and rolling her eyes.’ ‘The beautiful thing about New York is, you have to expose yourself to other people the minute you step outside the door. There is no choice. And I love that.’ However she admits that becoming a parent has limited the amount of things she can do. ‘If I didn’t have kids,’ she said, ‘I would be at the theatre or the ballet every single night of my life.’ For Sarah’s new role she portrays Kate Reddy, a financial executive who struggles to balance her heavy workload with the needs of her family, in I Don’t Know How She Does It, an adaptation of Allison Pearson’s 2002 best-selling novel. ‘I loved the part, and I can obviously relate to Kate,’ says Parker.


