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

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.

Kristin Davis has told how she once fainted after being instructed by producers not to gain any weight. The Sex and the City actress has opened up about her role as Brooke Armstrong on Melrose Place in 1995.