Jada Pinkett Smith Redbook Cover 2009

Jada Pinkett Smith may be petite on the outside, but she has a strong, positive attitude that makes her powerful. Not only is she the wife one of the world’s most prominent movie stars, she is the mother of three AND an actress in her own right. Pinkett Smith graces the cover of July’s Redbook and dishes on how she manages to keep her life, her relationships and her career so happy and successful. Read some of the details of the Redbook interview below.

ON HER HUSBAND:

“Will’s really smart. He’s very conscious and present.”

ON RELATIONSHIPS:

“There’s a certain amount of safety you have to create for someone to feel like they can be open to you… That’s something we forget in marriages and relationships - they have to be places of safety, because they’re where you are most vulnerable. If you’re not allowed to be safe, I don’t know if you can reach the depths of connection that support commitment. You can be committed to somebody because of ego: ‘I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I’m just going to do it.’ Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.”

ON SEEING HERSELF IN HER THREE KIDS, Jaden, 10, and Willow, 8, and stepson Trey, 16:

“Oh, yes. I see myself in Willow and Jaden - and in Trey, and he’s not even my biological child! It’s amazing because you can see the most beautiful parts of yourself in your children. That’s what I love most. When I look at my kids, I go, ‘I hope to God they don’t get my ugly parts. Get your own ugly stuff, not mine!’”

ON BALANCING FAMILY AND CAREER:

“When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’ I’m really trying to work on the receiving part, on how to give to myself. When I need a minute, I just want quiet. I need peace. I like being alone. I get up every morning about 5:45 and meditate for 20 or 30 minutes. The house is silent, and the sky is just about to break. And then I go out and I run the canyons. That’s been really good for me, a good way to start my day.”

Read the rest of the interview with Jada Pinkett Smith in the new issue of Redbook on newsstands now.

Source: Redbook

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