Just like the rest of us, mum-of-one Natalie Portman admits that working and being a mum to her five-year-old son, Aleph, is extremely tough. 

 

Opening up about motherhood in an intimate email exchange between author Jonathan Safran Foer, that was published in The New York Times’ T Magazine, the Black Swam actress said that a lack of a routine is "among the hardest things and best things about [her] work."

 

"I will never have the boredom or repetitiveness of an office. But every job takes me to a new place with a new schedule, and it requires a reinvention of ritual each time, even more so with a family,” the 35-year-old said.

 

 

Adding that her job requires constant “reinvention of ritual”, the wife of Benjamin Millepied explained how every time she goes on location she has to find a new place to live.

 

"But every job takes me to a new place with a new schedule, and it requires a reinvention of ritual each time, even more so with a family.

 

"Every time I go on location, I have to figure out where to live, what activities are available for my son, how and when we will travel from our home base." 

 

However, it seems that while it can be a bit of a struggle, working actually helps the Star Wars  actress, who said that when she's off time all blends together. 

 

 

"When I’m not working, I’m pretty much exclusively with my family, so my rituals have to do with school, meal preparation, playdates, bedtime. Weekends are best for ritual, because I own them completely," Natalie said of her daily life. 

 

"I do the whole week’s laundry, which I love because it’s a task with a clear beginning and end. And then we spend the weekend together as a family — usually somewhere in nature, often with friends who have children. Lots of cooking.

 

"I like weekends better when I’m working because then they truly feel like I’m regenerating energy, whereas when I’m not working, time blends into one continuous, undifferentiated stream."

 

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