Actress Sarah Jessica Parker has said wearing high heels for years has damaged her feet permanently.
The 'Sex and the City' star has revealed she can no longer wear high heels, reported Examiner online.
"I went to a foot doctor and he said, 'Your foot does things it shouldn't be able to do. That bone there... You've created that bone. It doesn't belong there," Parker was quoted as telling the on-line magazine of fashion firm Net-A-Porter.
The 47-year-old actress said that for a decade, working 18 hour days, she almost never took her heels off. A couple of slips due to less expensive footwear and "the chickens have come home to roost."
"For ten or so years, I literally ran in heels. I worked 18-hour days and never took them off. I wore beautiful shoes, some better made than others, and never complained. So I got shoes from there and the bottom of the shoes aren't leather, they are plastic, so I slipped a couple times, twisted my ankle."
The physical effects of wearing high heels have been known for some time. A study in the British journal, Lancet, from May, 1999, suggested that those mechanics may predispose women to degenerative changes in the knee, including osteoarthritis.
