I’ve added screenshots of Kristin from her Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson interview from March 9. So sorry for the lateness. I’ve been busy with work and didnt get a chance to do this until tonight. I’ll add the video soon as well. Enjoy.

Actress Kristin Davis is smitten with her biggest role yet: motherhood. The “Sex and the City” star became a mother to daughter Gemma Rose last August and said the seven months have flown by.

“She’s a big girl. She just last week started pulling herself up to standing,” Davis said today on “Good Morning America.” “It really goes by fast. Everyone says that, but until you’re there you really can’t quite believe it. It’s a lot of responsibility being a single mom, but in some ways I wish I had come to it sooner.”

Davis, 47 adopted Gemma through a domestic agency, a process she admits she was wary about at first.

“I had seen too many nighttime television shows about the drama [of domestic adoptions]. I was very nervous,” she said. “I had planned to do it internationally, but I realized the wait was three to five years and I just couldn’t wait that long. Here in our country we have kids in need and the foster system is not really a great option. Once I made the decision, it moved very quickly and I have a beautiful, healthy, baby girl.”

Fans fell in love with Davis through the years as Charlotte on “Sex and the City,” a role she says she would love to reprise in another movie.

“I would love to do it. I think we would all love to do it,” Davis said. “Maybe it will happen. We’ve really never known what would happen in our journey with ‘Sex and the City.’ We always think it’s over and then it’s not. Whenever we see each other we always talk about it socially.”

Davis said ideas for a third installment have been floated, but there is no script. “Sex and the City 2” fared relatively well in theaters thanks to the large series fan base, but did not compare to the 2008 film, which dominated at the box office and grossed over $415 million worldwide.

Davis’ latest project is a far cry from “SATC.” She plays a mother who is struggling to care for her mentally ill sister and her family in the Lifetime movie “Of Two Minds,” which she also executive produced.

“I wanted to make [‘Of Two Minds’} because it deals with a family who has a member who has schizophrenia …it’s just kind of looking at the stigma about mental illness in our country still and how the burden really falls on the family oftentimes to take care of that person. It’s so hard to find health care that will help, or maybe people are afraid to admit it,” Davis said on “GMA.”

“Of Two Minds” will debut on Lifetime Saturday, March 10, at 8 pm ET/PT.

Source: ABC News

Actress and Global Ambassador for Oxfam Kristin Davis is in Washington this week. She’s meeting with members of Congress to lobby them on reforming the Food Aid portion of the Farm Bill which must be reauthorized by September. The Sex and the City star spoke to The Hill’s Comment Editor Emmanuel Touhey about the need for reform, her visits to refugee camps in Africa and what she hopes to accomplish on her first visit to Capitol Hill. Here’s an excerpt of that interview.

The Hill: Kristin Davis, thank you for joining us today. Could you tell us why you’re here in Washington, DC?

Davis: I am here because I am a global ambassador for Oxfam, and we’re having an event here called Sisters of the Planet, and it’s very exciting,. We have about 70 women from around the country, all different walks of life — private enterprise, military women, faith leaders, it’s a very interesting group of people and we’re here to celebrate International Women’s Day, and to mobilize ourselves to support some legislation and ideas up on the Hill. We’re kind of going there en masse, and it’s exciting.

The Hill: Food Aid is an important part of the Farm Bill, and that’s something you’re focused on. Why did you pick that issue?

Davis: Well, my work with Oxfam centers on women and women’s rights and women’s issues, so when you start to go out in the world and see what’s actually going on, one of the things that you notice is that most of the farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are now women, but people don’t really realize that. They’re not getting a lot of support. Often they’re not even technically allowed to own the land that they’re farming. They’re usually using kind of handed-down methods that aren’t necessarily working anymore because of the weather changes. There’s just so many things about what they’re doing that is difficult, but yet they’re there, they’re holding together their families, they’re trying to educate their children. So we try to, to go and support
those women through Oxfam and just a little bit of support can just make so much change.

And I’ve seen it in so many countries. I’ve met these amazing women in Tanzania—one of which is here with our meeting today—and they have
changed their entire communities just by some very simple techniques that they’ve learned to better their crop output,. Then they can send their children to school. They can go to the market and sell their vegetables, which helps them build the school in their village and the other kids can go to school. You know it has kind of a multiplying effect in terms of how it changes that community.

So the Farm Bill has a lot of elements in it that are older—some of them from the 1930s, kind of red-tape things that don’t really make our aid that we give always efficient. So I think that everyone in America would like our aid dollars to be efficient. I think that it’s in everyone’s interest that the other countries and people in other countries have stability in terms of their food sources,. Sometimes our food bills destabilize other countries, so I think that we need to look at that and make sure that we’re not shooting ourselves in the foot.

The Hill: You’ve talked about being to Tanzania, and you’ve also been to Kenya and the largest refugee camp [Dadaab] there in the Horn of Africa…
Could you tell me about your visit there? What did you see and how did it affect you?

Davis: Well, we were in Tanzania on a planned Oxfam trip and we were meeting with these women farmers, which was great and very inspiring, and when we were there we were getting email alerts about the number of people who were coming into the camp—kind of a surprising influx suddenly coming from Somalia into Kenya. So we were close by and we thought well we should go try to see what was going on. So we went and it was very shocking and disheartening and upsetting, just because you feel like we’re in the modern world and how can these things happen when so many people are forced into just this really horrible situation where they can’t feed their children and they’re having to leave their countries and walk hundreds of miles and lose family members along the way. When we went, the camp couldn’t even accommodate the people, so we basically visited the camp that was
outside the camp, of all the people who couldn’t get into the camp. I’d never seen anything like that, and it was shocking. It was shocking. Still, still shocking.

The Hill: As you meet with members of Congress this week on the Hill, what do you want to convey to them most of all?

Davis: I feel like one of the most important things is that when I was in Dadaab and you’re looking at these people who are in these really extreme situations, you look at all the young boys, you know, there are children, all the way up to young teens, and many of them have lost their fathers in the fighting, and they’ve followed their mothers and possibly lost them as well, and you think about the fact that really no one is helping them. They are alone. They have been given up by their country, they have no government. Whoever is there to hand them aid, that’s a very meaningful thing, and I was very happy to be with an organization, Oxfam, and giving them aid, and I was very happy when I would see the USAID bags of food. And if it’s not us, it’s
going to be someone else giving them aid. And I do think that that is a very real consequence for our future. I think it’s something that everyone should remember—that it’s not just the morally right thing to do. It actually has real consequences as these people grow up, whether they feel like they’re in a world that supports them or if they’re in a world where they want to do bad things.

The Hill: You’re now a mother. What do you want your daughter [Gemma Rose]] to know about your work, about Washington, D.C., and Congress?

Davis: [Laughs] I hadn’t thought about that so much. I definitely would like to take my daughter on my Oxfam trips. You know, Congress is fascinating; I’m excited to go to the Hill just because I’ve never really seen the offices. I think it’s important to realize that we’re in a country where we have a voice, and it’s important to use your voice, and we’re lucky to be here. We should never take that for granted, and we should always stand up for the people we feel need to have a voice and don’t have a voice.

The Hill: Did you bring her with you on this trip?

Davis: No.

The Hill: When you go from something so serious in Africa to what you do on the stage or in front of the camera, how do you separate them?

Davis: It can be strange, it can definitely be very surreal, for sure. When I first started I had a few moments. I came back from a trip and went directly to the Golden Globes red carpet and I was so jet-lagged. It seemed like the trip was real and the red carpet not real, which in a lot of ways is actually true. So I think my work with Oxfam really grounds me. It educates me. It inspires me. I feel like it feeds my acting work. It expands me as a person every time I go out in the world and see how other people live and I learn so much when I go, and I think as an actor that’s all you can do, is try to expand as a person. But sometimes the glamorous part is a little strange.

The Hill: Do you plan to go back to Africa anytime soon?

Davis: Absolutely. I usually go back every year. Now that I have a little baby I’m trying to figure that out. But I usually go back every year, and I’m feeling the need at this point. I love it, I love to go. I love every country we’ve been to. I love it.

The Hill: Kristin Davis, thank you for your time and I hope that when you come back next time you’ll tell us more about your next trip.

Davis: Okay, I will. I’d love to. Thanks.

Source: The Hill

The “Sex and the City” star became a first-time mom last year when she adopted Gemma Rose as a single parent, and she opened up about the experience in an interview with TV newsman Anderson Cooper.

Davis reveals adoption officials told her not to get too attached to the child during the first few days, as the birth mother had 48 hours to change her mind before the adoption was finalized.

She says, “It is terrifying, partly because with adoption you always know there’s the chance that it won’t work. So you’re on pins and needles.

“They tell you that when (the child) first comes, you should think of it as babysitting in case the birth mum changes her mind. Every state is different, but in (California) it’s 48 hours. So you’re trying to think that you’re a babysitter but that’s kind of impossible!”

Davis, 47, also admits she struggled to get to grips with the process as there are so many rules governing whether single people can adopt: “I had always thought in the back of my head that I would adopt – that it was a possibility. So I started the process… but it’s quite confusing. There are all these different rules and if you’re single it’s harder.”

Source: Seattle PI

This morning, Kristin appeared on GMA to promote her new Lifetime movie Of Two Minds (premiering March 10 at 8 p.m.) when talk turned to her 7-month-old daughter, Gemma Rose — who just started pulling herself up to standing!.

“It’s a lot of responsibility being a single mom,” she said. “In some ways, I wish I had come by it sooner, but then again, I wouldn’t have Gemma, so that would be bad. I love it”

As for her choice to adopt domestically as opposed to internationally, Kristin said, “I was very nervous about domestic…I had planned to do it internationally, but it was 3-5 years and I just couldn’t wait that long. Here in our country we have kids in need and the foster system is not a great option, so once I made the decision, it moved very quickly, and I have a beautiful, healthy baby girl.”

The proposition of a third SATC movie was then floated, which elicited a smile from Kristen. “I would love to do it. I think we would all love to do it. Maybe it will happen. We really all never know what is going to happen on our journey with Sex and the City. We always think it’s over and then it’s not. We always talk about it socially … there are ideas, but no script.”

Source: The Insider

The women will also meet with Members of Congress to advocate for policies that support women farmers around the world.

Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, will offer keynote remarks to the morning gathering. An award ceremony and reception in the evening will honor Kristin Davis for her work to raise awareness on global hunger and poverty.

The following day, International Women’s Day, women leaders including former high ranking government officials, civil society leaders and veterans and farmers from across the country, will take to Capitol Hill to advocate for reforms to the US food aid program in the Farm Bill that will save money and lives.

WHEN:
9:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 7th 2012

WHERE:
The Double Tree by Hilton, 1515 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington DC

Source: Look to the Stars

Of Two Minds follows the story of the challenging relationship between “Billie” (Davis) and her younger schizophrenic sister, “Elizabeth, ‘Baby’” (Blanchard). After their mother dies, Billie takes responsibility by moving Baby in with her family, including her husband, their teenage son and young daughter. At first, Baby and the family work to adjust to their new living arrangement. However, after a disturbing incident involving her son and Baby, it becomes clear to Billie that she and her family are not equipped to handle Baby’s illness, ultimately forcing her to make the difficult decision to do what’s best for her sister and her family.

Produced by The Konigsberg Company for Lifetime and distributed by Sony Pictures Television, Of Two Minds is executive produced by Frank Konigsberg (Lifetime’s William and Kate, LMN’s Lies in Plain Sight) marking his sixth movie for the network and sixtieth overall in his career. Dan Ostroff (Ron Howard’s The Missing, Dog Town and Z-Boys) and Kristin Davis also executive produce and Jim O’hanlon (The Deep Emma, House of Saddam) directs from a script written by Richard Friedenberg (Snow in August, A River Runs Through It).

Lifetime Television is committed to offering the highest quality entertainment and information programming, and advocating a wide range of issues affecting women and their families. Lifetime Television(R), LMN(R), Lifetime Real Women(R) and Lifetime Digital(TM) are part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, LLC, a subsidiary of A+E Networks. A+E Networks is a joint venture of the Disney-ABC Television Group, Hearst Corporation and NBC Universal.

Source: Broadway World