14 Year Old Sex and the City' Fiend: Show Turned Me Into Samantha

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For Some, 'Sex and the City' Is Both Entertainment and Education
By SHEILA MARIKAR
May 21, 2008 —

You can only watch Samantha Jones bed so many gorgeous guys before wondering if 4-inch heels and sky-high confidence would allow you to do the same.

At least that's what happened to "Lisa" (not her real name). She got hooked on "Sex and the City" when she was a 14-year-old growing up on Long Island, N.Y. It was the same year she lost her virginity. She soon graduated to ordering cosmopolitans at bars she snuck into and cheating on her boyfriend with up to seven other guys -- in one week.

"When you're that age you try to emulate people on TV. Carrie smoked, so I smoked, Samantha looked at hooking up with random people as not a big deal, so that's what I did too," said Lisa, now 22. "It wasn't 'Sex and the City's' fault. I love the show, but I think it made it a little easier to justify my behavior."

It's a twisted version of monkey see, monkey do. For some 20-something women, "Sex and the City," which hits theaters in feature film form May 30, served as Dating 101 -- lessons in how to hook up, go out and live the fabulous lives of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), no strings attached.

link: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4895398

[alarimer]

1. Brainless idiot.

Obviously some young people are too stupid to know that you should not imitate TV shows. It is fiction after all. Where were her parents in all this?

[arcadian]

2. She should have emulated Kim's character from Porky's

Oh wait...

[unpossibles]

3. How come no one emulates Peter Parker? nt

[DarkTirade]

4. Right... because no one that age can tell the difference between fiction and reality.

:sarcasm:

[LynneSin]

5. Carrie quit smoking - did she?

Charlotte was looking for Mr. Right to marry - did she?

Miranda was a Harvard Grad with a job at a top NYC law firm - is this girl too?

Even in the end Samatha had 2 long term relationships (not at the same time)

I have a feeling the girl watched the first 3 seasons and failed to see how the series ended