Halle has also conquered the struggle of balancing her busy work life with motherhood. In real life, the Hollywood beauty gave birth to her daughter Nahla in 2008 and her son Maceo, in 2013, and in the intimate chat, she revealed she wished she hadn’t had waited to get knocked up.
“Around the time of my third InStyle cover, I became a mom at 40. Knowing that someone would always be counting on me made me a better person. I’m more focused and in line with my values and my goals.
I stopped letting negativity get me down. Plus, I loved being pregnant. Had I started earlier, I probably would have had five children.
Or if I hadn’t been busy trying to make movies, I would have been the perfect surrogate.” Halle was also famously married to Eric Benét from 2001 to 2005 and David Justice from 1992 to 1997.
On screen, Berry played a mother desperate to save her son from an abductor in the film Kidnap.
“It’s a constant struggle of a little more time there, a little more time here, and feeling a little bit guilty all the time.
I just keep telling all my mom friends who work that it’s OK to give ourselves a little slack sometime,” she said. “And not let the guilt sit on us so heavily and know that we are doing the best we can.”
Now, at age 54, Halle is not only doing her best, she living her best–life that is.