Helen MirrenBest Actress Oscar winner Helen Mirren has said she has no regrets about concentrating on a career rather than starting a family.

Helen has two step-sons from her husband Taylor Hackford’s previous marriages but she didn’t want to become a mum herself: “I’m just not interested. I’ve no maternal instinct whatsoever. And I don’t think I’m so unusual. I think an awful lot of women don’t really want children but feel they ought to.”

“They think there’s something wrong with them if they don’t want to, but it’s not true.”

“I’m so happy I don’t have children. But I do love children and I’ve got family, and Taylor has children that I’m involved with - and with great pleasure - but it’s just not for me.”