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.

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,

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