Whale Rider’s Keisha Castle-Hughes has said that meeting her daughter for the first time made all the media attention - and three days of labour - worth it.

Keisha and boyfriend Bradley Hull welcomed daughter Felicity-Amore into the world in April, just weeks after Keisha’s 17th birthday.

She told the New Zealand edition of The Australian Women’s Weekly: “It was just the most amazing moment.”

“For the last three days I had been in the worst agony of my life and right then I forgot every single minute of it. I just thought, ‘I’d do this all over again.’”

That doesn’t mean she’s going to have another baby anytime soon: she plans for her daughter to play with her own siblings - who range in age from 15 years to 11 months old - and she wants to get back to work soon: “Just because I have a baby, it doesn’t mean that my career is going to go kaput. I have a really ambitious streak in me. I want to do it now more than I ever did.”

But for now the only role she’s concerned about is being a new mum: “I’d be up checking, checking, checking, being paranoid. I remember when one of my friends had a baby she said it was like that in the first few weeks. And I said, ‘If I had a baby I would just sleep the whole time and I probably wouldn’t even wake up for it.’ But it’s so true because this little person relies on you and I know if anything happened, it would be my fault.”