Sarah Jessica Parker thinks Kim Kardashian West is "lovely".

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker

The 51-year-old actress and her 13-year-old son James Wilkie recently met the 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' star backstage at her husband Kanye West's gig, and she was very impressed by how "gracious" and "hospitable" the couple were.

Sarah said: "She was lovely. My son is a huge Kanye fan and they were really gracious and allowed him time with Kanye and that was in large part Kim's doing.

"There was a focus that I witnessed, not just with my son - whom she gave a lot of time to - but with everyone in the room. She was never looking over her shoulder, she was hospitable and lovely.

"It was so cool to watch her with my phone - she took my phone and was like, 'Let me shoot this whole thing' and she shot the whole conversation with Kanye and my son, which was so sweet."

The former 'Sex and the City' star - who also has twins Tabitha and Loretta, seven, with husband Matthew Broderick - insists she has never thought of herself as a "style icon", so has no idea if Kim is one too, though she recognised the 35-year-old beauty has a lot of "influence".

She told MailOnline: "I don't know what icon means anymore.

"I don't think of myself as a style icon. I think Kim obviously has enormous influence and she is more and more aware of what she wants and the images that she chooses to project, which she is in complete control of.

"I think she is a young woman who is evolving all the time and one shouldn't make a decision about anybody. She is not baked and done - I'm not either - so let her experiment and delight in the choices she has to make and let's be kind to one another and be good to one another."