Actress Zoe Saldana spoke about her upcoming role in the Reese Witherspoon-produced Netflix series `From Scratch`, the mom of three attributes having kids to help keep her youthful. After noting that Saldana looks nearly the same in `From Scratch` as she did two decades ago in her film Center Stage, the actress teases, “It`s like Benjamin Button, I`ll take that as a compliment,” reports People.
“I think having children keeps me out of trouble a lot,” she continues. “I go to bed early. I eat better. I sleep longer sometimes. I`m back to sleeping.” “I was having a lot of problems with my sleep. Whereas right before I had them, I was very much of the policy of work hard, play hard,” she explains.
“And I loved my life like that. But I feel like having children happened at the right time for me because in your mid-thirties to late thirties, early forties, that`s when you go to bed thinking that you`re one thing, and you wake up feeling like something else.” “And I started having kids during that time. So that saved me from a lot,” she adds.
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Saldana and husband Marco Perego are parents to twin boys Cy Aridio and Bowie Ezio, 7, plus their 5-year-old little brother Zen Anton Hilario. The `Avatar` actress, 44, shared back in 2020 about being a mom to all three boys. “The third one was supposed to be [a daughter] and then my husband just doesn`t give any girls,” Saldana joked. “I would have been great as a mother of daughters, but the universe, in its irony, and how I became a mom of three boys in the post-#MeToo movement [means] I`m accepting the challenge.”
Saldana said she was “having such a wonderful time” as a mom of sons, “because that means I get to witness and really nurture a young boy before he turns into a man, and I think that that`s the task for us mothers, as well.” Teaching her sons not to conform to gender stereotypes, the actress said it has “been a treat because allowing your boys to be vulnerable and sensible and not just allowing them to fight physically because, `Oh, boys will be boys` – those kinds of terms just don`t exist in our home.”
“`Daddy`s little girl` and `Mama`s boys,` we don`t have that,” Saldana added at the time. “My husband is the father and I`m the mother, but we are (both active) participants in the upbringing of (our kids) and that`s really important.”
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