Katie Holmes: giving birth to Suri was empowering

Katie Holmes has revealed she felt empowered after giving birth to daughter Suri last April.

She told Harper’s Bazaar recently: “I felt so proud to be having a baby and so excited. And I felt closer to other women-to my sisters, to my mom. I felt empowered, like ‘I’ve given birth. I did it! There’s nothing I can’t handle.’”

“I’ve really enjoyed this time that I have taken to be with Suri as well as the challenges of the first couple of months: feeding and pumping, learning to decipher what each cry means-is she hungry? Is she tired? Does she need a fresh diaper? And figuring out how to really help her.”

And she isn’t in any sort of rush to get back to work because she loves being a mum so much: “I have a whole new set of responsibilities. My work is very important to me. My family is very important to me. When I go to work, it will be the right thing, worth my time and worth my time away from my family.”