" I was waiting for this Inner Light to go off in my head , and it never did . "
Zoë Kravitz has a lot to look forward to these days. There’s the release ofBlink Twice, her wedding toChanning Tatum, her lead role in the upcominghorror movieSelf-Portrait… But she doesn’t really know if motherhood is in her future.
Zoë recentlytoldEsquire that it took her years to come to grips with that.
“For a long time, I felt like there was something wrong with me,” she confessed. “I was waiting for this light to go off in my head, and it never did.”
“When you’re younger, you’re like, ‘Well, I can’t have kids. I’m too young! It’d be crazy.’ I had to actually look at what do I want,” Zoë continued.
She also said in the interview that she doesn’t think someone’s value should hinge on if they have children.
“For a lot of people that have children, it is this giant, life-changing event — and I do think there is a certain amount of focus and respect that they should get from their community,” Zoë explained.
“There’s a lot of pressure on women to have children, and there’s a feeling that if you don’t, you don’t have purpose here. But this movie, it feels like I gave birth,” she added, referring toBlink Twice, her directorial debut.
Her partner Channing currently has one child, 11-year-old daughter Everly, whom he shares with his ex-wifeJenna Dewan. While Jenna previouslysaidhe “definitely” wanted more children, Channing hasn’t addressed the topic since their marriage ended.
You can read Zoë’s full Esquire interviewhere.
