Claire Danes Strolls With Family on Cool NYC Day

“Being a mum is incredibly challenging, but we still feel a pressure to talk about it in very romantic terms. And it’s not just that,” Danes told Harpers Bazaar in 2014.  “We all have that resentment at times and anxiety about being trapped by the role, that responsibility. And then chemically it can run riot…And there’s no ‘off’ button. [For me] that was the hardest adjustment. You always feel beholden to somebody…And for so long they’re like koala bears, you just feel a physical responsibility to be there for them to cling to. It’s pretty primal.”