Despite struggling to fall pregnant and a punishing round of fertility drugs, Halle says she’s glad she waited until her forties before becoming a mother.
She might have won an Oscar for her role in Monster’s Ball, but ask Halle Berry what her greatest achievement is, and there’s no hesitation in her reply – being mother to two-year-old Nahla.
The 44-year-old actress struggled to fall pregnant with Nahla, undergoing fertility treatment with then-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry.
But, in a surprise admission, Halle says she’s glad she waited until later in life to become a first-time mum. Despite enduring months of heartbreak and raging mood-swings due to fertility injections, Halle told US Vogue she’s better mother material now she’s in her forties than she would have been in her twenties.
“Nature has got it all wrong,” Halle says. “When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier. When you are ready, you can’t do it to save your life. And when you are 21, you are so not ready, but you are as ripe as could be.
“I’m lucky and grateful that I waited until an age when I can be really present. I saw my mother in her early twenties having two little kids and I don’t think she enjoyed me at two the way that I enjoy my daughter. She didn’t have that luxury.”
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