Helena Bonham Carter is worried she's doing "badly" at parenting.
The 48-year-old actress admits finds it difficult juggling her career with caring for Billy, 10, and Nell, six, her children with partner Tim Barton. Helena says she is often left feeling she isn't doing anything as well as she could.
She told HELLO! magazine: "Juggling motherhood with acting is hard and I'm always dropping balls all the time. You always feel you're doing everything badly.
"Tim's taking time out now and I think I'll do the same. We're trying to be parents, which is harder than anything else."
Helena knows she is in a "lucky" position with her career, but admits her busy schedule leaves her exhausted.
She explained: "The multi-tasking is tiring. I'm not saying it's a big deal, not if you enjoy your work, and I'm lucky enough to make a living from something I love, but there's always something."
Despite the actress' mother Elena suffering a breakdown when Helena was five, and her father Raymond left paralysed and partially-blind after surgery for a brain tumour seven years later, the 'Alice in Wonderland' star insists she had a perfect childhood and hopes to be as good a parent as her own.
She said: "I had a very, very happy upbringing. I hope I can be half as good a parent to my children as they have been to me. And I know Tim is a great father."
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