Julia Roberts on motherhood

Julia Roberts returns after a two-year break from Hollywood to raise her twins, Phinneaus and Hazel. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Julia speaks about motherhood.

"This is why you work for twenty years and then have kids," Julia says of becoming a mother of two. "The reason I did all that really, I kind of say now, is so that I can stay home."

Married life seems to be treating her well, and Julia says the kids are taking it pretty easy on her and husband Danny Moder. "My boy is a great sleeper," she says. "My girl, she has her moments." And Danny is right there to lend a helping hand, even with diaper duty. "He's a good everything," Julia says of her man.

Still, there are some things that only a mother can do without missing a beat. "I can catch poop in my hand and just be like, okay," she says. Nobody ever said raising twins was an easy, or glamorous, job!

Returning to film projects for the first time since 2004's 'Ocean's Twelve,' Julia is back as the voice of Hova in the animated family feature 'The Ant Bully,' which opens July 28 and is produced by Tom Hanks.

"By the time we got rolling, the babies were born," she says. "They were very good about, like, I would work for two hours and go home and nurse and come back and work. It was crazy [but] that's what you do!"

So, did creating her pint-size character give her newfound respect for ants? "They are kind of fascinating," she admits. "I have to say this though, I did flick an ant the other day that was about to crawl onto one of my kids, but I thought that was maternal instinct, not hatefulness."

For more with Mark and Julia, watch ET on July 18, 2006.

Source: Entertainment Tonight

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