Charlotte York may be desperate to be married, but the real woman behind the much-loved Sex and the City character, Kristin Davis, says women don't need a relationship to be complete.

Davis, who has previously been linked to Alec Baldwin and David Duchovny, embraces her independence and is in no hurry to settle down.

"It's nice to be with someone," she tells the April issue of InStyle magazine, "But I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad."

But she still finds her onscreen persona - a romantic idealist - very likeable.

"I think she has some themes, like wanting security, that many women relate to. That's what's so great about our show, plus it shows the different choices that women have. "

The enormous success of the television series, which has just wrapped up in the US after six years, is no doubt due to the way the show dealt so engagingly with the conflicting paths open to modern women. While acknowledging the themes of the series struck a chord with women around the world, Davis is surprised it became such an unequivocal hit.

"I certainly didn't read Sex and the City and think it was going to be a hit. I just read it and thought I wanted to see it and be in it. I thought it was going to have a tiny little cult-type following," she told InStyle.

One of the choices facing the four Sex and the City characters - Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall) and Charlotte York (Davis) - is motherhood.

"I have the most respect for it in the world, but I'm not sure if I'm cut out for it," she admits. But she's keeping an open-mind.

"Adoption is wonderful. I think there are many different ways to do it ... she tells the magazine.

"I'm an only child, so it's hard to picture the whole 'multi-child' situation. Cynthia (Nixon, her co-star) has two children and it is unbelievable the amount of work involved," she says.

And as for the Sex and the City finale, Davis chose to watch the show "in the privacy of [her] own home", she says, "where I could cry. " - ArtsyStuff Magazine contributed to this article

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