A UK woman has revealed how Sex and the City inspired her to bed 1000 men.

Christina Saunders, from Hertfordshire in east England, reached the target last month after setting herself the challenge 10 years ago.

It all began after she watched the first series of Sex and the City while stuck at home with a bout of flu in 2000.

“The thought of four women gloating about sleeping their way around New York hadn’t appealed to me but I had nothing better to do so I watched it,” she was reported saying.

The then university student said she’d had just one sexual encounter at the time.

But her modest attitude to sex changed after watching the sexually liberated character Samantha.

“She had a male attitude of sleeping around and it fascinated me,” Ms Saunders, now 30, said.

Ms Saunders began picking up men in bars or during overseas holidays and kept a tally of her conquests in a notebook.

But she said her goal to sleep with 1000 men — achieved at a friend’s party last month — divided her friends.

“I took things too far,” Ms Saunders reportedly said.

“Now all I want to do is settle down. I just hope I haven’t put men off.”