Think sexy. Are you thinking it? Who are you thinking of? Chances are it's
Halle Berry. Halle chatted with
MailOnline about life after 40 and how it's affected her love life, family life, and career. You can make your own judgments, but I'm thinking that Halle is even more awesome post 40.
When
Esquire magazine crowned her Sexiest Woman Alive last October, Halle was honored, but at same time didn't think much of it. "I think those things are kind of silly because nobody is the sexiest anything, so I asked them to let me write my own article to poke fun at the label. What I thought was interesting about them choosing me was that I had just had a baby, so it was all about saying that motherhood can be sexy - that was the important thing. And I do feel sexier because I'm now more in line with my purpose for being on the planet. When you feel empowered, to me that's sexy."
Speaking of sexy, how is the sex life Halle? "I have much better orgasms than when I was 22 because I know what I like - and I initiate." Is it that, or is it cause you're with
Gabriel Aubry, one of the most beautiful men alive? I'll go with both.
Although Halle has an Oscar and is among Hollywood's A-List, she is no stranger to bad publicity. In 2005 she won a Razzie for
Catwoman, and in 2000 was sentenced to three years' probation and 200 hours of community service after she left the scene of a car accident when she crashed into another car on Sunset Boulevard. She's made a lot of other bad movies as well, but once you show up to get your Razzie, people stop thinking about the bad movies and just focus on that really bad one.
For Halle, meeting Gabriel was something so perfect. After two failed marriages, she even contemplated suicide, but didn't want her mother to go through that. But after a fashion shoot the model, ten years her junior, it worked. "We clicked instantly. And yes, he's not at all bad on the eyes,' she adds, giggling. 'I don't know if younger men are easier to get on with because they're not so set in their ways; all I know is that he's easy for me to get along with."
Although the pair aren't married, and apparently have no plan to, they do have adorable daughter
Nahla Aubry, whom we all know so well as she loves to show up in the pool here and there. "When I'm not filming, I'm pretty hands-on with Nahla, and so is Gabriel; so much so that he's my nanny - that's what I tell him. I'm just kidding. But we work together so well on the childcare."
"My priority had been myself for a long, long time," she says, "but now it will always be Nahla. You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love." And Halle has learned a lot from getting older and becoming a mother. "As a mature woman, you are no longer trying to prove yourself. You pretty much have figured out who you are. And I feel the right to do and say and be whatever I want. I don't have to make excuses. And I'm no longer so ambitious that I spend every waking moment trying to be something I'm not, which I did in my youth."
Gallery Info: Halle Berry takes some flowers to a sick friend at an LA hospital.
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