PAGE SIX MAGAZINE: on the cover - Candace Bushnell

PAGE SIX MAGAZINE: on the cover - Candace Bushnell
On the cover of this week’s Page Six Magazine – the one year anniversary issue – Candace Bushnell, best-selling author of “Sex and the City,” reveals how she grabbed the country’s attention with the true story of sex, love and relationships, that spawned the hit HBO series and a beloved summer movie, and shares the story of her own whirlwind romance with her ballet dancer husband – 10 years her junior.
Candace couldn’t care less about being branded a cougar. “[It’s] a derogatory term used to make a woman feel uncomfortable because she’s not keeping up the status quo. When have I kept up the status quo? We fell in love the night we met.” They married three weeks later.

Before creating a feminine phenomenon with “Sex and the City,” Candace was a 19-year-old Rice University dropout scraping together $150-a-month for rent and eating $1 hot dogs from street carts for entire meals. Dating was a way to score free food, she says, and meet the city’s glitterati. “People think because of the way I write and who I write about, I’m going to be a diva,” she says, even though she is now as much a part of the fabric of New York City as the landmarks she helped popularize: Magnolia Bakery, Pastis and her beloved Greenwich Village.

When she started writing the 1996 book that would later become the HBO and movie sensation, Candace says “I was single and in my mid-thirties, and single women in their thirties were considered desperate. But I saw them as less traditional and more adventurous. I was not ready to be married. I waited for the right person, and I encourage other women to do the same. There’s nothing harder than being single. And things are even harder for young women these days.”

Her latest creation, the TV version of Lipstick Jungle on NBC starring Brooke Shields returns to NBC on September 24.
Though Candace has never felt a desire to have kids, she’s still eager to fight for a woman’s goal for true career/family balance. “I saw so many New York women in their forties, with high-powered careers, who loved their jobs. Some were married…some had kids…and it didn’t seem to matter. So I wanted to spread the word to women in other parts of the country that you can have it all.”

For more on Candace Bushnell, check out this week’s issue of Page Six Magazine, free inside the Sunday edition of the New York Post and online on Monday at www.pagesixmag.com. For a preview of this week’s magazine, click on http://www.nypost.com/pagesixmag/upcoming.

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