Claire Danes has opened up to Harper's Bazaar UK about the challenges of being a mother. In the magazine's October 2014 issue, the "Homeland" star talked about her experiences in parenting since giving birth to her first son, Cyrus, in 2012.

"Being a mum is incredibly challenging, but we still feel a pressure to talk about it in very romantic terms. And it's not just that," the 35-year-old actress tells the magazine. "We all have that resentment at times and anxiety about being trapped by the role, that responsibility. And then chemically it can run riot...And there's no 'off' button. [For me] that was the hardest adjustment."

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The first-time mother described such relationship as feeling "beholden to somebody", comparing children to koala bears to whom mothers have a physical, primal responsibility.

Aside from adjusting to motherhood, the Emmy-award winning actress opened up about his son, Cyrus, and the adorable times that he blows kisses to everybody, says 'Ciao', and sings to himself.

"He's kind of revealing himself to be a bit of a ham," Danes commented, "which shouldn't really be a surprise. A babysitter gave him a kiss goodbye and now he does 'Mwah, mwah' to everybody. Or he says 'Ciao.' It's ridiculous. I did not teach him that.

The former "My So Called Life" star also touched on the subject of Cyrus growing up to be a toddler now.

"He sings 'Ee-eye ee-eye oh' to himself all the time," Danes told Bazaar. "And he's a toddler, so he says 'No' and 'More' a lot and he's just started to have temper tantrums. It's scary."

Opening up about her husband Hugh Dancy, the actress claimed that she continues to fall hard for the British actor, who she met while working on the drama movie "Evening" in Newport, Rhode Island.

"I'm genuinely in love with him," she said, adding, "And I like hard things. You know, marriage is hard, but I'm up for it. I don't do anything casually so dating is not for me. I would be marrying everyone I was with.

The actress described her marriage to Dancy as being a "beautiful exercise" with which the romantic couple, who got engaged in February 2009 and tied the knot on the same year, has been given many opportunities to get to know each other more and "go further."

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