Cynthia Nixon Shines with Wife Christine Marinoni at French Open with Co-Stars

Sex And The City star Cynthia Nixon appeared in great spirits as she joined her wife Christine Marinoni at the French Open in Paris on Friday. 

The actress, 59, looked effortlessly chic as she opted for a striped dark brown shirt and large straw sunhat. 

Meanwhile her wife kept it simple in a white polo shirt and baseball cap as they were seen clapping and cheering together.  

The couple were joined by Cynthia’s fellow And Just Like That co-stars Sarita Choudhury and Kristin Davis as they enjoyed the day out after the new series was released on Friday. 

Sarita, 58, looked stylish in a white striped-shirt and summer hat, while Kristin, 60, opted for a bold black and white checked summer top. 

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Cynthia and Christine became friends in 2001 and started dating in 2004 after Cynthia’s divorce from her husband Danny Mozes in 2003.

The star has said that she’s like her Sex And The City character ‘in every single way’ because of the way her real-life journey from a long-term relationship with a man to marrying a woman has mirrored Miranda’s.

When they met, Christine was working as a community organizer and educator at the Alliance for Quality Education. Cynthia, who has been a longtime activist and organizer, became a spokesperson for the alliance.

Christine was Cynthia’s first relationship with a woman.

‘When we started seeing each other, Christine kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, for me to panic about what this would mean – to my career or to myself -as if somehow I just hadn’t noticed that she was a woman,’ she told Elle.

‘And then she met my mother, and that was when she stopped worrying about it.’

But Cynthia’s publicist wasn’t so sure going public with her same-sex relationship was the best move.

‘He just kept saying, “It’s your life, and it’s private, and that’s it.” And we kept asking, “That’s the whole thing? We never move past that?” We’re at the playground with the kids, and pictures are taken of us, and we say, “No, she’s my friend?”‘

Cynthia fired that publicist and her next one encouraged her to go public with her relationship.

The couple got engaged in 2009 at a rally supporting the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

They married on May 27, 2012 after gay marriage was legalised in New York State and welcomed their son, Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni in 2011, who was fathered by Sex And The City costume designer Michael Growler.

Cynthia also has two children she shares with her ex-husband, Seph, 28, and his brother Charles, 22.

The star has revealed how Seph and Max are lucky enough to have four parents – herself and Marinoni and Mozes and his new wife – and they refer to all the women as their mothers.

It comes as the new series of And Just Like That has been dubbed an improvement from the first two seasons.

The Mail’s Claudia Connell awarded the drama four stars, writing: ‘After two disappointing seasons as flat as a loafer shoe that Carrie Bradshaw wouldn’t be caught dead in, And Just Like That – the sequel to Sex And The City – is finally hitting the right note.’

The Guardian gave it three stars, writing: ‘After two misfiring series, some of the old Sex and the City magic is detectable in this new run of the HBO spin-off.

‘As it returns for a third run, there are signs that it’s finally getting into its vertiginous-heeled stride. 

‘There is still plenty here to mock – and rest assured, we will – but there’s also just enough of the old magic to make this a nostalgic guilty pleasure.’

Meanwhile The Independent agreed saying that the series had ‘finally started to find its groove’. 

They added in their three star review: ‘The evolution, from controversial reboot to inoffensive serial, might spawn fewer social media reactions, but it makes for a far smoother watch.’

IndieWire also agreed that things were improving with the third series, saying: ‘Michael Patrick King’s ‘Sex and the City’ sequel series seems to be settling into a groove. 

‘A groove that’s quite familiar, if once forsaken. Yes, a groove worn smooth by ‘Sex and the City.”

Collider, Time Magazine and Mamamia also gave positive reviews.