Zoe Saldana on Motherhood: "There Is Sh*t on the Boy. There Is Sh*t on Me. There Is Sh*t in My Hair"
You might want to sit down, because Zoe Saldana's incredible natural beauty in the July 2016 issue of Allure magazine might cause you to faint. The Star Trek Beyond actress, who recently won Lip Sync Battle with a performance of TLC's "No Scrubs," looks so fresh with her signature straight hair, wearing an embellished top and bright orange bikini bottoms (letting one of her many tattoos peek through) on the inside spread, and scarlet red lipstick on the cover.
And Zoe's gorgeous looks weren't all that shocked us. In the interview, the mom of two gets candid, chatting about being sent to the Dominican Republic at the age of 9 after her dad passed away, and her views of feminism, racism, and motherhood. Scroll ahead for her must-read quotes and to see the cover, then pick up an issue of Allure for the full interview.
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- On raising 19-month-old identical twins Cy and Bowie: "A blowout? I can't do it — I end up with sh*t everywhere! There is sh*t on the boy; there is sh*t on me; there is sh*t in my hair. And I'm like, How did this happen?"
- On having an emergency delivery: "The boys came at 32 weeks. They found protein in my urine; my platelets crashed. I didn't qualify for an epidural, so I delivered under general anesthetic. I didn't even meet them until a day later."
- On growing up with three sisters: "I come from a family of women. Of tough women. Not in a bad way, just resilient, and strong, and determined, and super-opinionated."
- On her mom, who worked two jobs to raise her daughters after their father's death: "She's the goddess of 'I could give two sh*ts about what you have to say about me; I do it all my way.'"
- On other celebrities lending support after she became a mother: "We were all reaching out to each other. I got an email from Jessica Alba — who I only know from conversations in the bathroom at events — saying, 'Hey, congratulations. This is my to-do list of how I did things. Maybe there will be something you can use.'"
- On having to fight for studios to pay for childcare: "The tone changed in the negotiations. I was starting to feel that I was . . . difficult. [For babysitting to be] considered a perk, or 'Give this to me; I'm having a diva fit'? No. This is a necessity that you must cover for me in order for me to go and perform my job. The fact that there are women working in these studios — and they're the ones [enforcing] these man-made rules. When are we going to learn to stick together?"
- On a producer saying "I hired you to look good in your underwear holding a gun": "I was told walking into this project that they really wanted me for the part, and that any input or ideas I had to please share them. That's what I was doing, and this producer was so bothered by the fact that he had to disrupt his vacation to call me and tell me to stop being a difficult bitch. I thought, Wow, it's real. It really happens."
- On criticism of her role as Nina Simone: "There's no one way to be black. I'm black the way I know how to be. You have no idea who I am. I am black. I'm raising black men. Don't you ever think you can look at me and address me with such disdain."