Helen Mirren didn't have the urge to procreate

Helen Mirren tried to “convince” herself to have children.
The 66-year-old actress who is married to director Taylor Hackford insists she doesn’t regret never having a family as she has never felt maternal urges, though she admits in the past she tried hard to change her mind.
“It’s not that I don’t love children, they are funny and I just love them, but I never wanted to have them, I really tried to want it at one point. I thought maybe I should. But I never convinced myself,” she said.
The Debt star believes her decision not to have children is beneficial to the world, as she believes it is overpopulated.
“I think some men and women just don’t have a deep urge to procreate,” she added.
“I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It’s my contribution to ecology.”
Another reason why Helen did not want children is her “sense of adventure”, as she hates being tied down to one place for too long.
“I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don’t think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life,” she said.
“I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers tat I never get to see flower. I have always moved around the world.”