Diane Keaton Happy to be a Mom Later in Life

Diane Keaton once put becoming a mother on hold as she tried to find the right relationship, but has discovered that being a mom beats out everything else in her life.

"I've had such an unusual life. Obviously career-oriented. I was happy to be a daughter well into my 40s. That was something that meant a lot to me," Keaton says in Ladies' Home Journal for its February issue. "I didn't think that I was ever going to be prepared to be a mother."

Keaton, who was involved in two high profile relationships in the '70s and '80s with Woody Allen and Warren Beatty, put having kids behind finding a "strong and substantive" domestic partnership.

"I wanted to be in a good relationship. Those good relationships that are strong and substantive never happened for me, and that prolonged my indecisiveness," says Keaton. "Motherhood was not an urge I couldn't resist, it was more like a thought I'd been thinking for a very long time. So I plunged in."

Keaton adopted daughter Dexter, 12, in 1996, and son Duke, 7, in 2001.

Source: Ladies' Home Journal