Cynthia Nixon talks about lesbian lover

Posted by: Liz Ng, 7-Mar-2008

Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon has opened up about her romance with partner Christine Marinoni.

- AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, FILE

She was quoted as saying, “We shop and cook and raise children....We both pitch in. I’m in love with her because she’s her. If she were a man, would I be in love with her? I don’t know.”

After ending her 15-year relationship with Danny Mozes – the father of her two children – Nixon started dating Marinoni in 2003.

The pair now raise Nixon’s children Samantha, 11, and six-year-old Charles together in Brooklyn.

Talking about their initial reaction to her female lover, she said: "They were fine. My son was very little (when it happened), but my daughter has a gay uncle (and her godmothers) are lesbians."