Carrie Bradshaw, the central character of HBO’s iconic show Sex and the City, has been a source of aspiration for young women ever since she and her Manolo Blahniks strutted onto TV screens in the late Nineties.

Her fashion choices, hilarious best friends, New York Haunts and job as a writer for Vogue: all of it seemed utterly fabulous.

But one part of her life that she wasn’t quite so admired for was money management, and the rather unrealistic idea that she funded her enviable lifestyle on what appeared to be little more than a column a week.

Her often frivolous spending (“sometimes I bought Vogue instead of dinner. I found it fed me more”) is something fans have debated for years, and now, finally, the producer of the show has revealed how they addressed the issue – and that the character’s spending was as hot a topic in the writers’ room as it was for viewers.

SATC writer admits the team argued over Carrie's unrealistic lifestyle