Zoe Saldaña Opens Up About Raising Three Boys, Teaching Them to 'Celebrate Their Feminine Self' (Exclusive)

Georgia Slater is an associate editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work has previously appeared in USA Today and Washington Life Magazine. that was recently granted De Novo approval by the FDA — the actress, 45, also got candid about raising her three sons.star, who shares twin sons Cy and Bowie, 8, as well as son Zen, 6, with husband Marco Perego-Saldaña, tells PEOPLE that parenting is the "most amazing thing, but it's real.

"Certain seasons, I'm the one that may be taking over all of the domestic operations so that my husband can mentally break away and focus on his creativity. And other seasons when I go completely back into work mode, then we're switching off," she explains. "I don't think it's ever an even share of the load, which is why I think it's important to be absolutely transparent with your bandwidth and where you are and how you're doing.

"We're very hard on our boys the same way we're hard on women. And boys are encouraged to be strong and to suppress their emotions. And then once you learn to do that so much for so long, you become completely excommunicated from your feelings," she says. "We definitely understood the assignments and accepted it knowing that we were raising boys during a time when women's movements are so important.

"And our son, for the first year of his life, would just sleep really peacefully in his SNOO and we loved it," adds the actress, who was one of the SNOO's first investors. "Our child always felt safe in his SNOO and he would go into a deep sleep within I would say, three minutes of being in his bassinet. And that was amazing. Whereas it would've taken us 30 minutes holding him and rocking him back and forth.

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