Sex and the City writer Candace Bushnell, 60, admits she regrets choosing a career over having children as she is now 'truly alone'
- Candace Bushnell, 60, says she regrets choosing career over having children
- Sex and the City creator said after not having children she is now 'truly alone'
- The TV series is based on a writer who chooses independence over motherhood

Candace Bushnell, 60, has admitted that she regrets choosing a career over having children as she is now ‘truly alone’
Her best-selling book and the racy TV series it inspired taught a generation of women that they could ‘have it all’.
But Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell, 60, has admitted that she regrets choosing a career over having children as she is now ‘truly alone’.
The TV series starred Sarah Jessica Parker as a writer in New York who famously chooses her independence over motherhood.
Miss Bushnell, pictured, divorced her husband – ballet dancer Charles Askegard – in 2012 and said it made her realise the importance of starting a family.
The former sex columnist, who is worth around £18million, told the Sunday Times: ‘When I was in my thirties and forties, I didn’t think about it.
‘Then when I got divorced and I was in my fifties, I started to see the impact of not having children and of truly being alone. I do see that people with children have an anchor in a way that people who have no kids don’t.’

The TV series starred Sarah Jessica Parker as a writer in New York who famously chooses her independence over motherhood. Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall are pictured above in the series