Sarah Jessica Parker Talks Dressing In ‘Practical’ Clothes For Her Son, ‘Sex And The City 2’

Sarah Jessica Parker may be a style icon, but when she takes her 7-year-old son, James Wilkie, to school, she steers clear of anything too fashion forward

“Whatever’s practical for being a mother,” SJP told the January 2010 issue of Glamour magazine when asked what she first puts on in the morning. “I walk my son to school, and I don’t want to embarrass him.”

Motherhood is a priority for the actress, who earlier this year saw her family grow with the addition of twin girls — Tabitha and Marion — via a surrogate.

“Nothing can really describe what it’s like to have two new little girls,” she said. “It’s been very different than when James arrived, since our family expanded in an untraditional way. We didn’t plan on having two, but were doubly blessed, and it’s been just wonderful. [They] just turned four months old… One would prefer to be held 24 hours a day, and the other is already suffering from type A issues. It’s been amazing but complicated because of my current work schedule, which I have enormous regrets about.”

Her current work schedule includes promoting “Did You Hear About The Morgans?,” a romantic comedy with British actor Hugh Grant, and filming “Sex and The City 2.”

“The first movie had a lot of sadness in it, and it was very brave about breaking the rules of romantic comedy,” she said of the “Sex” sequel. “This one is very much the antidote for that: It’s a romp. It’s about the idea of women’s and men’s roles in marriage, and old traditions versus new ones. The story is really fun, but it’s also about something.”

As for her own relationship with husband Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica didn’t want to open up too much about it because, “too many [people] speculate about my marriage, anyway,” but she did say generally that marriage changes when you have a family.

“I think when you are younger, you get swept away by grand gestures… When you have children and years invested, it’s much more complicated,” she said. “It’s the day-to-day stuff: the kind of parent you are, the kind of partner you are. It’s the little and big things as opposed to just the big things. But you are not meant to know that when you are younger, so I don’t think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.”