Naomi Ackie wants to wait until she's 40 before starting a family because she "can't even look after a plant' right now.
Naomi Ackie wants to wait a few years before becoming a mum
The 31-year-old actress has insisted she's not ready to settle down and have children because she doesn't own her own home yet and struggles to keep her space tidy while Naomi also admits she can't even keep her house plants alive.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: "[I'm] not ready to have my own child until I’m probably like 40 ... [It's] actually good to know ... that one day you can just look at a baby and think, ‘I want you'."
Naomi went on to explain she hopes to get married in the future but she wants to enjoy married life for a few years before having children.
She added: "I know it’s bad the longer you wait, but I feel really intentional about wanting to be married for a few years before that happens.
"And I don’t own a home. I can’t even look after a f****** plant, mate. And can I keep my house tidy? No. I didn’t even make my bed before I left for L.A."
It comes after Naomi admitted her portrayal of Whitney Houston in 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' forced her to revaluate her work-life balance after she was left exhausted and at "rock bottom" after the shoot.
In an interview with The Observer newspaper, she said: "That role pushed me to the edge, to the point where I was like, I have to change something otherwise I will shrink within this job, within this body, within the world.
"I was away from home, isolated in Boston for like seven months, and hungry – I lost about 30lb to get to the shape of Whitney.
"I lost a lot of myself, and not because of the art of it. It was to do with me feeling under pressure and trying to not be hated by the world – I was a catastrophic thinker, thinking I was never going to work again."
Naomi earned critical acclaim for her depiction of the 'How Will I Know' hitmaker but confessed it led to a rethink of her work-life balance.
She added: "It got me to such a rockbottom that it was a wake-up call. A job cannot mean so much that it steals my life’s joy. I was like, we’re gonna need to fix some priorities."
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