Zoe Saldana Wants a Family, Says Kids are ‘Delicious’

Actress Zoe Saldana may have just split with former beau Bradley Cooper, but the 33-year-old star still has babies on the brain.

Saldana talks in a recent interview about her desire to be a mother and the reticence her exes have had about starting a family. Zoe Saldana and ex Bradley Cooper- who played a free-wheeling bachelor in the Hangover films- dated for three months, but before that, the star was involved with 35-year-old Keith Britton.

In that time, Saldana explains in a recent interview, she had mommy aspirations- but balancing that with Britton’s desire to wait was difficult. Saldana says:

“For years he wasn’t ready. Then when he got ready, I didn’t have time. I never held anything off because I was waiting for something to kick in. I don’t think that far about tomorrow.”

Saldana describes the frustration of holding off when she felt the urge to procreate:

“I felt the urge to want to have a baby, and I wanted to, but I remember that respecting his decision- and making the decision to wait with him- was one of the most mature things. I chose to wait and I’m glad I did. I’m glad that I respected him.”

While many people find little kids stressful, Saldana says that she has always loved to be around kids. The actress dishes:

“I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I’m a kid myself… I dig them, I get them. They make perfect sense to me. A child makes perfect sense to me. A child speaks more sense than an adult half of the time.”

You can see Saldana’s interview, during which she made the comments, on The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet on Lifetime.