'Motherhood' is the real deal - Said Uma Thurman

Not to mention caught outside in their nightgown, untied sneakers and coat, as Uma Thurman has in her West Village neighborhood.They sneak cigarettes:"I have been guilty,"Thurman,39,confesses.They make to-do lists:"You have to tell me to put my head on my shoulders sometimes."And they grapple with the elusive work-family balance: "I definitely sacrificed my work because I couldn't stand to not be there" for her children,Maya,11,and Levon,7.It's a life all too familiar to another, far-less-famous West Village mother of two:Eliza Welch, the harried heroine Thurman plays in the indie comedy Motherhood,out Friday.Eliza battles New York's notorious street parking rules;Thurman once had to retrieve her car from an impound lot after her ex,Ethan Hawke,parked it crookedly"and left it open as well.Thurman says it was"very" refreshing to mouse down for a movie."I like the realness.I'm not afraid of it."Indeed,Motherhood is "exactly the backdrop of the home movie I didn't shoot.It's like''That's the playground I took my daughter to," says Thurman, her long, angular limbs curled up like a pretzel in a chocolate chair at the W hotel lounge in Midtown."It's very personal."This is a character who gets to a point where she starts to doubt her purpose and feels invisible in her own body," Thurman says. "I think a lot of women will relate.
"Now that her children are getting older, she doesn't want to limit her scripts to movies shot only in their hometown."It's not like people want to put me in (just) anything,sadly. But it would be nice to have the privilege to be able to look at anything that's good, not just anything that's in New York – not that I don't love New York."Thurman is mum,however,on the details of her own impending ceremony; last year she got engaged to London-based French financier Arpad Busson, who has two sons with another leggy blonde,former girlfriend Elle Macpherson."I have nothing to tell you right now,"Thurman says in a sly,singsong voice.Her well-documented,marble-size engagement bauble is missing."It's an invitation to love.It's the most expansive,loving experience I have ever had ...humbling, beautiful"–nightgown-as-streetwear and all.