Surprise bundle ... Cate Blanchett has told a magazine she would love to have more children.
Cate Blanchett has revealed she wants to expand her family and "homing instincts" had brought her back to Australia.
"I'd love to have more children," the mother-of-three told InStyle magazine, out on May 18.
"Just when, I don't know. But the thing is, we hadn't planned any of the others. They just popped out. So you shouldn't overplan these things. If it happens, it would be great."
The film star and Sydney Theatre Company co-director moved back to Sydney in 2006 with her husband, playwright Andrew Upton, and their two older sons, Dashiell, 7, and Roman, 5, before the birth of Ignatius, 1.
"It was after our second son was born [in Britain] that we started to get homesick and our homing instincts got a lot stronger," she said. "You do start to miss family."
The Oscar-winning actress paid tribute to her mother June, who single-handedly raised three children in suburban Melbourne following the sudden death of her husband Bob from a heart attack when Blanchett was 10.
"I have a whole new sense of respect for my mother and I think she's incredible," she said. "She just kept going. I am in awe of women - and men - who parent by themselves. To not have someone beside you at 3am when the baby's sick and be able to thrash that out with somebody, about what you do, the stress must be so intense."
Blanchett, who turns 40 on Thursday, has been nominated for two awards in Tuesday's inaugural InStyle Women of Style Awards, to be held at Australian Technology Park in Eveleigh.
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