Teri Hatcher Places Being a Mom at the Top of Her Priority List

Teri Hatcher is taking the summer off from working to focus on her 9-year-old daughter, Emerson.

"I'm really clear about my priority in my life – it's being a mom. I have enough difficult balancing doing the show for ten and a half months with being a mom the way I want to be," Hatcher tells Easy Living magazine.

Hatcher took five years off from work when her daughter was born to focus on Emerson. "I still want to be at home," she says. "I want to be doing homework, I want to be making dinner."

"I think that's a fairly common struggle for women – our guilt about motherhood and our lack of ability to participate and having to feel like we've got to work."

Still she would like a career that includes more film credentials. She says, "I love doing films, and I'd like to do that, but I wouldn't like to do it more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother."