Beyonce: I'll Have Kids With Jay-Z "When I Am Ready"
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Don't expect to hear Beyonce Knowles singing lullabies anytime soon.
In a new interview with The Daily Mail, the normally tight-lipped singer opens up about her plans to one day start a family with hubby Jay-Z.
"My ambition is to continue to learn about the world and to eventually have a family," she says.
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But Knowles, 28, insists that she's in no rush to become a mother, saying that there are "no dates, no times -- it will happen when I am ready."
So what's stopping the "Single Ladies" singer from trading her world tour for diaper duty?
"Probably the biggest challenge in my life is time -- making sure I have time to be a wife, to be a singer, to be a songwriter, to be an actor and still have time for my clothing line and now for my perfume," Knowles confesses. "I am like any other woman who has a child, who has a husband, who has a job. I think it’s the hardest thing about being a woman because we have so many responsibilities."
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She continues: "For me, balance is always really hard to find. I love so many different things, and to have the discipline to turn certain things away and focus on one thing at a time so that I can give it 100 percent is really hard."
Still, the singer says she's more open to the idea of having children with her 40-year-old husband now that she feels more confident as a woman.
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"It takes time to figure out who you are and I am still discovering different things about myself," she says. "More and more I know who I am, I know what I like, I know what I want, and that makes me feel so free. I don’t need to hide any more."
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11I think she plans everything down to the "T". She's gonna have a baby when the other celebrities are finished so all the attention can be on her. Then she'll take a break, and come out w/an album 'bout family life.
LOVE HER!!! She can do no wrong and runs circles around all these other chicks! Jay is sexy and she has time. Drop an album!!!
good for her for being honest. there is no rush!
B. don't want to mess up her shape right now. She knows that she will pick up all that weight that she lost. Jay already has a little one, he probably don't care if he don't have another one. He's giving respect to the other mother.
U go B!U have 2 b established in ur own life before trying 2 bring another life into this world.
B better wait cuz she will prob blow up like a damn balloon!!! & lets all pray the kids look like her..
I know when she's ready to be a mom, she'll be as good at that as she is of everything else she does... I love her!!! good luck! B
Hope those babies look like her.
Love B, she's smart and isn't buckling under all the Holywoods nonsense. When she's ready that's her business. Hollywood makes having children seem like a must have accessory.
You go girl! Don't let the pressures of the status quo weigh you down. I firmly believe that people should have kids on their OWN TERMS, when they are good and ready, not when others feel they should.
That's why she's so successful..she has a GOOD head on her shoulders..live your life by YOUR rules..no one else's..