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Halle Berryis empowering women at every stage.
After appearing on stage at theCannes Lions Festival of Creativitypanel, theMonster’s Ballactress, 56, toldWomen’s Healthabout the advice that’s guiding her that she hopes to share with other women.
“I’m solidly in my womanhood. I finally realize what I have to say is valuable, even if no one else agrees,” she told the outlet. “Here’s what I tell women: Own wherever you are.”
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“Do it only if you want to, because you give up a lot of your personal life to growing those other lives,” she noted. “And maybe you’re not a woman who wants to do that. No harm, no foul, no judgment.”
The actress welcomed her first child, daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry, with her ex Gabriel Aubry in March 2008. Berry’s son Maceo-Robert Martinez, whom she shares with ex-husband Olivier Martinez, was born five years later.
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In 2019, the mother of two toldInStylethat she"loved being pregnant"and “probably would have had five children” if she had “started earlier.” She added, “Or if I hadn’t been busy trying to make movies, I would have been the perfect surrogate.”
And although her two kids are growing up, they’ll always be “little” in her eyes. When the actressreceived the People’s Icon awardat the2021 People’s Choice Awards, she thanked her son and daughter and also offered them some words of wisdom.
“My two little kids, they have to lose so much time with their mommy because I get to go work and do what I love, so thank you Nahla, thank you Maceo — I hope you find something in life that you can love and you can do with as much vigor and as much zest as I do what I do. I love you guys,” she said.
source: people.com
