Winona Ryder Starts Over with Kids on her Mind

It's been five and a half years since Winona Ryder was videotaped removing security sensors off items and shoving them into a bag at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, but now she's ready to make her return to the spotlight in a big way. She first appears on the August cover of Vogue to represent women in their 30's for the magazine's annual age issue.

The issue coincides with the release of three comedies that she has coming out this fall: The Ten (in limited release Aug. 3), Sex and Death 101, and The Last Word co-starring Ray Romano.

"The attention was what was embarrassing," she tells Vogue. "It was the December after Sept. 11. … So much attention was being paid to me, when we had just been attacked, and there was all this really important news going on."

She explains publically what was happening just prior to her arrest: "Two months prior to that, I broke my arm in two places, and the doctor … was giving me a lot of stuff (Oxycodone), and I was taking it at first to get through the pain. And then there was this weird point when you don't know if you are in pain but you're taking it. Have you ever taken painkillers? It isn't a reckless (state), like you're out of your head. It's just confusion."

"I didn't have this tremendous sense of guilt," she adds, "because I hadn't hurt anyone. … Had I physically harmed someone or caused harm to a human being, I think it would have been an entirely different experience."

Following her trial, she pulled up stakes from Los Angeles and moved to San Francisco to be closer to her parents and made what she calls "a very conscious decision not to work."

Ryder is now looking to the future and is actively returning to work, but is feeling the desire to add children to her family soon although she is currently single. "It's this weird pressure that I probably shouldn't even talk about."

Source: Vogue