Cattrall: Never the right time for kids

Kim Cattrall always wanted to have children, but the circumstances were never right.

The 'Sex and the City' actress would have loved to have been a mother but admits she never found herself in the right situation to become pregnant and accepts, at 54, she never will.

She said: "I've always wanted to have children. That never happened. And I thought, 'Well, I'll do it next year. I'll do it after this film. And then there was, 'Oh I'm single.' There is a feeling you give up a lot on this job, but you have to get a lot back, too. Luckily I have great friends and I have found a tremendous amount of happiness in mentoring young actors. They're like my kids."

Kim – who has been divorced twice – also revealed how her work has taken over her personal life and was probably to blame the breakdown of her marriages.

The 'Meet Monica Velour' star told the Independent newspaper: "You know the price that you pay – not all actors, but this actor – is that I've been very lonely a lot in my life. I've had two marriages and I loved both my husbands very much, but I didn't see very much of them.

"The length of my work days is really hard on relationships. You never see anybody and that's a very tough thing for a woman."