And Just Like That star Kristin Davis is looking back at her time on Melrose Place. Before she landed the role of Charlotte on Sex and the City, Davis nabbed the part of Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place. But working on the hit '90s primetime soap wasn't all it cracked up to be.

Kristin, I'm so happy to see you here! I just wanna tell you, you know, I think you look great,’ and I'm like: ‘Oh, thank you. What are you talking about?’”

If you had hips, it was a situation," Davis tells PEOPLE Kristin Davis is looking back on her Melrose Place days. In the latest PEOPLE cover story, the Sex and the City alum, 59, reflects on her storied career in television and gets candid about the entertainment industry's unrealistic beauty standards when she was a young actress.

Kristin Davis said she was overexercising and eating less while being pressured to stay thin on Melrose Place.

Kristin Davis says she was told not to gain weight on ‘Melrose Place,’ recalling, ‘If you had hips, it was a situation’

Before she was Charlotte York on Sex and the City, Kristin Davis booked her breakout role on the hit drama series, Melrose Place, a spin-off of the smash success, Beverly Hills, 90210. But, according to Davis,

It was not all [Mel]roses for Kristin Davis when she starred on Melrose Place. The actress opened up to People about her time on the ’90s drama, acknowledging an overall “difficult” vibe on set “about the thinness situation.

Actresses active in Hollywood in the ’90s, a time when the entire world seemed to be gripped by the most intense fatphobia, still remember what a terrible era that was for women. It was a bizarre time to grow up in.