United Kingdom, March 28 -- Kim Cattrall's incident with fake tan inspired the 'Sex and the City' writers.

The 68-year-old actress played Samantha Jones on the hit HBO series and in the season five episode 'Plus One Is The Loneliest Number', her alter-ego tries an anti-ageing chemical peel that goes awry but Kim revealed that the whole thing was inspired by an overly-ambitious tanned look she had tried for an awards show.

She told Harper's Bazaar: "What's funny about that-I don't know if I should tell you this-is they would always rob things from our lives on that show. I had been at an awards ceremony, and I was going for this kind of breezy summer look. So I asked the makeup artist if instead of doing a foundation, we could just do on...