The Real Sex and the City with Candace Bushnell

Girls Gotta Eat

Ashley Hesseltine

Relationships, Society & Culture, Dating, Comedy, Sex, 977170

4.6 • 29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Grab your Cosmos, we have the woman responsible for Sex and the City, the real-life Carrie Bradshaw – Candace Bushnell! Candace joins us to talk about the show that became the voice of many generations, forging her own path as a successful woman (when it was much harder to do so), the real story behind Mr. Big, how she met her former husband and why they got married so quickly, why girlfriends are so important, dating men from ages 21-91, her feelings on And Just Like That, and more. Before Candace joins us, we talk about Rayna’s upcoming date with DBCG (if you know you know), Ashley’s bf meeting the fam, and a secret Rayna thought Ashley kept from her. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	And there was really a feeling of empowerment and that was something that you see in the first two
0:06.7	seasons of Sex in the City. You see this women like, yeah, they don't really care. They're out there.
0:15.5	They're a team.
0:30.0	Hi guys. Welcome back to their episode of Girls Gotta Eat. Welcome back. Last day of
0:39.4	Cancer season. The month. I thought we were talking. What a month. You've had a month.
0:50.6	It's been a whirlwinds July. It's been a month. And we just cleared up something pretty important.
0:56.2	Raina thought I didn't tell her something because I was trying to spare her feelings.
1:02.4	For two months, I thought that you were keeping the secret to make sure that like it just didn't hurt
1:06.8	my feelings. I was into somebody and I thought he may have hooked up with a guy. And I thought
1:11.9	that you knew. And I thought you were trying to spare her. Raina, I say this with so much love.
1:17.1	I'm never intentionally trying to hurt your feelings. I want to protect you. You're my best friend.
1:20.2	You're a family. I love you. If I knew that, I would have been at your door six a.m. bus bus
1:26.3	time to get over this guy. I would have been there to console you. But I would have been
1:32.7	busting in like the cool aid man to share this. Your feelings. What's the better concern?
1:41.1	For two and a half months, I've been like, she knows. And it's just like unspoken thing that she's
1:46.0	like, I haven't asked. So she hasn't offered the information. I didn't feel like you don't
1:49.9	know me at all. And I wouldn't have been excited to share it. But it would have had to happen
1:54.8	immediately. There wouldn't have been a maybe show me up set. It would have been need to know info.
2:02.1	This thing's been hanging over me for months for 10 weeks. I've been like, maybe she knows.
2:07.9	It's safe. I'm glad we cleaned this up. So she thought a guy that she was into hooked up with
2:15.1	my guy friend. Who is gay? Well, they stayed out all night. Listen, they could have happened.
2:21.0	But I don't know about it. I actually would have loved it. I would have loved it too. It would have
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