Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon is set to marry longtime girlfriend Christine Marinoni. The actress – who plays sensible lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the hit show and new movie - caused controversy when she left the father of her two children, English professor Danny Moyes, for another woman, activist Christine Marinoni.

Speaking to the Mirror, Cynthia, who recently recovered from a battle with breast cancer, revealed: “If it becomes legal I think we would. It’s something my girlfriend is interested in and it was not something my boyfriend ever was. I think that to get married to her would be a little act of rebellion. It’s like if you’ve never had the vote and then you get it you’re going to run out there and vote. I always avoided marriage in the past and was always very wary of it. I felt like it was potentially a trap. People sometimes want the party, the gifts and the public celebration of this big love - they’re excited about that rather than about the lifetime commitment. So I always steered clear of it.”

She says that she refused to talk about the union until all the furore surrounding the situation had died down, adding: “I started dating my girlfriend in January 2004 and the press got wind of it around the September. There was a lot of attention and it was crazy. I said I was romantically involved with a woman, but I wasn’t going to talk about it until everybody calmed down. I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me that woke up or came out of the closet. There wasn’t a struggle or an attempt to suppress. I met this woman and I fell in love with her. In terms of my sexual orientation, I don’t really feel that I changed. I don’t feel any different than I did before. I don’t feel like there was some hidden part of myself that I wasn’t aware of. I had been with men all my life and I had never met a woman I had fallen in love with before. But when I did, it didn’t seem so strange. I don’t define myself. I’m just a woman in love with another woman.”

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