Kristin Davis Had to Stop Sarah Jessica Parker from Putting Her on a Dating App: 'Do Not!' (Exclusive)

Dating isn't off the table for Kristin Davis, but she isn't interested in finding her next partner on an app.

In PEOPLE's latest cover story, the Sex and the City alum, 59, gives fans an update on her love life and shares why dating hasn't been a priority for her — despite her friends' hopes she finds a partner.

"Dating's tough as a single mom. My friends feel that I should be dating, because life is short," she explains, before laughing, "Sarah Jessica [Parker] was going to put me on a dating app. I'm like, 'Sarah Jessica, I will kill you.' I was like, 'Do not!"

After Parker suggested, "I'm gonna make a profile for you," Davis recalls shutting down the idea with a definitive "no."

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"I just don't meet that many people, I guess. And I'm super focused on the kids and it's hard to date with the kids. I've tried. I mean, it's tough," she says, referring to her children, Gemma Rose, 13, and Wilson, 7. "It's not like I'm not open to it. I just don't, I'm not actively pursuing it. Let's put it that way. But you kind of, at some point, I guess you have to do [it]."

There was a time when the Melrose Place alum actively put herself out there and dated, though she says "it never went well."

Davis adds that her southern roots have often given men the wrong impression. She explains she was "brought up to be kind of aggressively nice," and that men have mistaken her kindness for romantic interest.

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"People don't understand that and they're confused," she says. "Like, why is this person being so nice to me? And in dating, that can be tough because then they think it's a go and you're just like, 'No, what gave you that impression?'"

Contrary to her iconic SATC character, Charlotte York, Davis admits that she's "never wanted to get married, but all of my friends did."

"I was against [it], I was anti [marriage]," she says, adding that she chose to prioritize her career. "I was wearing black. I was like theater. I was like, 'What is with this?'"

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This isn't the first time Davis has revealed her disinterest in marriage.

While she believes the “essence” of her personality is the same as Charlotte’s, during a July 2023 appearance on the Best Friend Energy podcast, Davis said that the two lead "very different lifestyles."

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“I’m not married. I’ve never been married. It’s not my thing. I was never focused on it. It was never like a goal, let’s say," she explained, adding that portraying her character's romanticization of marriage "took some acting."

“I would stress out on those days," she recalled. "Where I would have a paragraph on a page of all…the rules and the marriage and the whatnot, and oh my God, I would just be like, ‘How am I going to do this and make it real and believable?’”

These days, Davis is sharing more of her SATC memories on her own podcast, Are You a Charlotte?, where she revisits the series.

In a recent episode, she stepped into Carrie Bradshaw’s shoes and told her own dating-nightmare story about a guy who ghosted her in the ’90s — and still owes her $5,000.

“It was scary,” she says of sharing her experience. “I’m usually very careful and do not talk about my private life, but here I am in this situation where I’ve started a podcast about the themes of our show.”

"It's a new situation that I'm trying to figure out," Davis adds.

Her SATC costar Cynthia Nixon is loving it. “It’s wonderful to see her in charge of this new world that she’s creating,” she tells PEOPLE. “It’s part of her growing into herself and all her power."

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