Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman has admitted she overlooked the most important and hardest role of her life – being a mother.
The busy Black Swan actress, who started dancing at 4, scored her first movie role at 13 and completed a Harvard psychology degree while working as an actress at 23, says the hardest job in the world is being a mother.
Natalie, 32, had her first child, Aleph, to now-husband, ballet dancer and choreographer Benjamin Millepied in 2011. She spoke to ELLE UK about how motherhood has been her most challenging role thus far.
“I love being a mum, but it’s much more intensive work than being an actress – going to work feels like you’ve got a day off,” she said.
“Not that I want a day off from being a mum, it’s just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don’t work. But they work more than anyone,” the star elaborated.
As the expression goes, you should walk a mile in someone else’s shoes before casting judgement, and now the Israeli-born actress has put on her Mum shoes, she’s singing a totally different tune.
She’s currently promoting Thor sequel The Dark World, where she stars opposite Aussie Chris Hemsworth. The movie is set for release in Australia on October 31.
