Halle Berry Opens Up About Divorce, Talks Children & Turning 50

Just nine days after the announcement of Halle Berry’s divorce from her third husband, she sits down with Extra for an exclusive interview.  “I’m doing okay, I really am,” the Academy Award winner says. “I keep pushing and I’m really happy to be here because whenever you’re going through anything in life, when you step outside yourself and focus on others, that’s always the best remedy for any situation that you’d rather not be dealing with.” 

Halle met Olivier Martinez in 2010 on the set of Dark Tide. The couple got engaged in 2011 and wed Summer of 2013. The couple share a son, Maceo, who just turned one. “Maceo didn’t go trick-or-treating ’cause he has the chicken pox, Nahla was a zombie cheerleader, and we had a great time,” Halle said of spending time with her kids. “I was a pirate and she (Nahla), she’s like, ‘You’re a sexy pirate, Mommy,’ I’m like, ‘What do you know about a sexy pirate?'”

Halle Berry also talks about her 50th birthday next August. “I am not going to be defined by that number. Yeah, it’s coming. Yeah, so what? I am not going to be defined by that 5-0.”  As far as what she plans to do, Halle says she just wants to get away. “I want it to come and go as fast as it can. I’m going to take my five best girlfriends to a Caribbean island, we’re going to have a cleansing, we’re going to jump in the ocean butt-naked and have a spiritual moment and bond and connect as women. That’s how I’m going to blow it out with my girls, with my best, closest, dearest friends… I love my woman ships.”