The Help star, who generally keeps her personal life private, spoke opening about her decision not to have children in an interview alongside Hollywood's hottest in The Hollywood Reporter.
Fine the way she is: Octavia Spencer told The
Hollywood Reporter's annual Actress Issue's roundtable that she has no
plans to have children
Oscar hopefuls Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey, Emma Thompson, Amy Adams, Octavia and Lupita Nyong'o all sat down with the magazine for its annual roundtable Actress
Issue.
Octavia said motherhood is something she will never experience as she has made the decision not to have children.
'I should be married and have 19 kids,' she revealed during the discussion.
Career is her baby: The 43-year-old revealed the
only mini person she plans to have in her house is her Academy Award
that she won for The Help, the star joking her eggs were past their used
by date
'And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date.'
Almost as if anticipating people may question whether this was a hard decision for her to make, the Oscar winner said she is far from sad about not having children.
'But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.'
The actress is certainty not joking about the idea that she is meant to have a large family already, Octavia herself is the second youngest of a family of seven children.
The star seems to have had a recent change of heart saying in July she wanted to have at least one child.
Octavia told Parade: 'I definitely want kids. I wanted three, but I’m in my early 40s now, so I’d be happy to have one healthy baby.'
The star also touched on her rarely discussed private life, saying she is dating less now she is famous.
'The visibility is scary, so I get it. At this point, I’m not looking. He has to find his way to me. I’m totally fine with not being married or a mom right now. There was a time when that kind of stuff depressed me, but the universe had other things in store.'
The Fruitvale star said for her movie, in which she plays the mother of Oscar Grant who was tragically killed by a police officer on New Year's Eve 2009, she had to draw on different elements as she is not a mother herself.
The star told the other actresses: '[In] Fruitvale Station, I never played a real person, and there's a responsibility that is owed and a life that extends beyond the screen.
'And having to go to that place to where I'm not a mum, and having to imagine losing a child that I had to substitute for one of my nephews.'
Julia Roberts meanwhile said having children and taking a break from acting was important to her, and she was 'fortunate' to have built up her career before doing so - the star has 8-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and a son Henry, 6.
Playing the role: The Fruitvale star said for
the movie, in which she plays the mother of Oscar Grant who was killed
by a police officer on New Year's Eve 2009, she had to draw on different
elements
The 46-year-old said: 'I had been working for 18 years when I had Hazel and Finn almost nine years ago, so I felt like I earned that time in my house and in my kitchen and in bed all day with these two little people.
'I felt that was my present to myself
'I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to. It still is really important, but it has made me take more things into consideration.'
Different decision: Julia Roberts meanwhile said
having children and taking a break from acting was important to her -
the star has 8-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and a son Henry, 6
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