Halle Berry speaks of pregnancy joy

Actress Halle Berry has spoken about how she and her boyfriend repeatedly tried to conceive a child.

"So there was a lot of staying home and doing what you do. Like, all the time, around the clock," the 41-year-old Academy Award-winning actress told The Oprah Winfrey Show.

One negative pregnancy test followed another, "and finally, after about 35 tests, we finally got a positive test," Berry said in one of her first interviews since she announced she was expecting her first child.

Berry, who is about three months pregnant with model Gabriel Aubry, her boyfriend of two years, told Winfrey she does not want to know if the child is a boy or a girl.

"There's so few genuine surprises in life anymore that, why not have a huge surprise?" she said. "And I like fantasising one day it's a girl, one day it's a boy."

Berry says she has been warned that the child may not be very attractive on the day it is born.

"When you're pregnant, you have this idealised view of what the baby looks like - it's really like six months old, that's what you see," she said. "You don't really visualise its head smashed, purple, one ear folded down, eyes swollen."

Berry said playing a mother in her latest movie, Things We Lost in the Fire, helped convince her motherhood was for her.

"I think it validated that I was meant to be a mother because every day I dealt with the character as a mother and thinking as a mother," said Berry, who co-stars with Benicio Del Toro.

She said she and Aubry do not plan to marry, but feel fully committed to each other and want to have another child after this one.

Source: ukpress.google.com