Sarah Jessica Parker Reveals She Adopted Carrie’s Kitten From “And Just Like That”

Sometimes life really does imitate art. In an Aug. 29 Instagram slideshow, “And Just Like That” star Sarah Jessica Parker revealed that she’d actually adopted the kitten that her character, Carrie Bradshaw, rescues in the show. In the second season of the “Sex and the City” sequel, Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez) gives Carrie the adorable gray feline, and Carrie gives it the most Carrie Bradshaw moniker of all time: Shoe.

In her Instagram post, Parker shared that the kitten’s “off-camera name is Lotus.” She added that “his siblings were all given botanical names when they were rescued as newborns by the @cthumanesociety,” and revealed that Lotus was “adopted officially by the Parker/Broderick family in April 2023.” The kitten joins Parker’s two other cats, Rémy and Smila, whom she adopted in May 2022, Parker added. “If he looks familiar, that’s because he is,” she concluded her post.

Parker shares the cats with her husband Matthew Broderick, whom she married in 1997. They have three children: James, who was born in 2002, and twins Tabitha and Marion, who were born in 2009.

The second season of “And Just Like That” concluded on Aug. 24. It features a long-awaited cameo by Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), as well as plenty of additional drama.

See Parker’s sweet adoption announcement below.