'Going The Distance' star Drew Barrymore is obsessed with her baby daughter Olive and has compared motherhood to having the world's biggest crush.
The actress is besotted with her four-month-old baby and feels like a nervous schoolgirl whenever she thinks about her because she gets so excited.
Speaking to Oprah Winfrey on 'Oprah's Next Chapter', she said: "It's like having the worst crush of your life! I drive home with heart palpitations, like; I can't wait to get to her. I think, 'You know, is she gonna call? Will she ask me to spend the night?'
"I wake up every morning ... and it's a newfound joy that I have in the morning hours ... I get to wake her up, and she's so fun and always smiling and doesn't have this history of all these thoughts you wake up with as an adult ... It's just joy!"
The 37-year-old Hollywood star is married to Will Kopelman - her third husband - who she wed in June 2011, and Drew admits she has never felt so confident or desired as when she manages to make him laugh.
She confessed: "I just know that if I make my husband laugh - I think that's why my husband loves me - if I make him laugh, I feel like the most beautiful woman in the world."
The actress was legally emancipated from her own mother, Jaid Barrymore, during her wild teenage years. At that time Drew took drugs and went to rehab - but she claims that although Jaid didn't attend her wedding, they were able to reach the decision together.
Drew explained: "She was not there actually, which was really hard. We both discussed it and thought it would be best. We really spoke about it - that's where I feel like a grownup, with my mom."
The ‘51st Dates’ actress also told Oprah that she wants to be a better mother than her own. She said: "I will be there at 3pm in the school line waiting to pick her up, that's first and foremost.
"I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles but that shouldn't be one for kids - is the worry that my parent won't be there."
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