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Leave it to the to make one feel totally inadequate.

Just when I had gotten over the fact that I didn鈥檛 think of聽鈥淏lue Ivy鈥� as a name for my daughter (鈥淗ow鈥檇 you miss that one?鈥� my college roommate e-mailed back in January), and just after I had come to terms with the realization that I would never have my own Simpson-Sims-Spelling-style clothing line (apparently wearing the same sweatpants multiple days in a row does not a fashionista make), here comes Charlize Theron.

The South African actress and new mom has been making the press rounds to promote her new film, 鈥�Snow White and the Huntsman,鈥� in which she plays Ravenna, the fairy tale鈥檚 wicked queen. And predictably, many of the questions have revolved around her infant son Jackson, whom she adopted in March.

Here are some of the tidbits we have learned:

Ms. Theron says being a new mom 鈥渏ust feels right.鈥澛� No Mommy Wars-style identity crisis here. The peacefulness oozes out of her interviews.

鈥淢y mom said the most beautiful thing,鈥� the actress recalled during a chat with Ellen DeGeneres. 鈥淚鈥檓 going to cry. She said ... 鈥業t took me nine months to fall in love with you when you were growing in my stomach.鈥� She鈥檚 like, 鈥業t took you two years to fall in love with this little baby.鈥� ... It really took two years of just waiting and then, one day, it鈥檚 finally there. It just feels exactly how it鈥檚 supposed to feel. I don鈥檛 know how to describe it. It just feels right.鈥�

Meanwhile, she says her dogs 鈥� a rescue terrier mutt named Berkley and a pit bull rescue named Blue 鈥� took to Jackson right away.聽

鈥淔rom the moment this baby came into our home, those two dogs have never been more in love,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 the most beautiful thing I鈥檝e ever witnessed.鈥�

Blue, apparently, even wakes up with Theron every time she needs to change or feed Jackson, and 鈥渨henever the baby would cry the pit would start crying ...聽 he鈥檒l do anything for that baby.鈥�

(Hear that, Labrador retriever sneaking onto the couch downstairs?聽 It鈥檚 not just about what the baby will toss you from the high chair.)

And, to top it off, Theron enjoys changing diapers.

鈥淚 love it!鈥� she said on the Today show.聽 鈥淚鈥檝e got to tell you, I鈥檓 available for other babies鈥� diapers to be changed ... I can do it in my sleep now. I鈥檓 so good.鈥�

Awesome.聽 I鈥檒l be tweeting you my address, Charlize.聽

Now, if all of this isn鈥檛 enough to build a sense of mommy-not-worthiness, there's the interview Theron gave, along with "Snow White" co-star Kristen Stewart,聽 to Interview Magazine.

In addition to waxing poetically about acting, the constructs of female characters in popular films, power and how women see themselves in the world, Theron had this to say about her atypical path toward motherhood:

鈥淵ou can't really be too calculated about everything in life. I think I've gone through my life with the understanding that you've got to let go and you can't think that you're going to control your destiny. I think I made peace with that at a very young age because I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.鈥�

And then, on the adoption:

鈥淪o then you go through the process, and it's tough. It's not the easiest process 鈥� and then again, I've never liked things too easy in life. But it emotionally knocks you out. It's a really difficult thing to experience, but I never once faltered and thought that I didn't want to go through with it. You kind of go through situations that don't work out, and then all of a sudden you have this baby in your hands and you forget about all of that. You forget about the last three years of your life. You just realize that everything unfolded exactly the way it was supposed to unfold.鈥�

At least today鈥檚 celebrity mom inferiority complex comes with some thoughts worth pondering.