Halle Berry Interview: Closer to Home (page 3 of 3)

Evolving as a Person

RD: Have you ever had plastic surgery?
Berry: No, I haven't. But that's one thing I'll never say never about, because I don't know. I hope I will evolve as a person who realizes it's really not about my physical appearance and not be drawn to that seductive knife.

RD: What do you do when you're not working? Do you like to travel?
Berry: I've been working so much lately, the last thing I want to do when I'm off is travel some more. What I want to do is go home, be with my animals. I've got three cats and two dogs. I just want to go where I feel safe, where I feel comfort, where I feel like I can just be me. And my mother is now in L.A., so traveling has become less important the last couple of years.

RD: Let's talk about motherhood. You're interested?
Berry: Oh, yeah. I hope that happens. It's late; I've waited a little long. But I want to have children. Absolutely.

RD: So you're not pregnant, as the tabloids have suggested?
Berry: No, no, no. Trust me, when I'm pregnant --


RD: Everyone will know it?
Berry: There's nothing to hide.

RD: Would you consider adoption?
Berry: Oh, sure. Yeah.

RD: I know you're seeing someone new, but I also know you've said many times, I'm never getting married again.
Berry: Never, that's true.

RD: You haven't learned you never say never?
Berry: This I'm 100 percent sure about. I will never -- not in a traditional, formal way -- ever.

RD: What's an example of a nontraditional way?
Berry: Being committed to someone and professing my love and wanting to spend my life and build a family. I'm very much that person and need that in my life. But never with that dress on, signing that paper and legally being bound to another person. Spiritually, yes, but not legally. No more need to do that in my life.

RD: Is there anything else that you're looking forward to in the future?
Berry: In the past when people asked, Where do you see yourself ten years from now? I would say, Here's where I want to be. Then I realized I was limiting myself to that, and not opening myself up to where I can go. I just want to continue to be happy in myself, which I am today, and give of myself in ways that feel meaningful for me. And the next chapter in my life, I think, will be about parenthood. Waking up and doing movies isn't quite enough anymore. I think the next act for me will be trying to be a good mother.

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