NYC women are celebrating 32 as the new ‘Sweet 16’ — partying in honor of ‘work in progress’ hero Carrie Bradshaw on ‘SATC’
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Move over, Sweet 16 — New York women have crowned a new birthday worth popping bottles for.
Fed up with the societal (and self-imposed) pressure to have life figured out by their early 30s, women in NYC and beyond are celebrating turning 32 in a big way — not because it’s a traditional milestone, but because it’s a cultural one.
The reason? Carrie Bradshaw.
When “Sex and the City” debuted in 1998, viewers met its heroine at 32 — single, successful but very much a work in progress.
Watching Carrie make a few — or several — not-so-smart decisions and continuously question herself, but still thrive over six seasons, permitted women to believe that life at 32 doesn’t need a tidy bow.
Nearly three decades later, that message is fueling a wave of SATC-inspired “Carrie parties — complete with SATC-themed costumes, cosmos and cigarettes (as props) to celebrate being fabulously unfinished.
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s.
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