United Kingdom, May 7 -- Gabrielle Union has struggled to find "balance" in her life.

The 52-year-old actress admits that she's struggled to balance her career in Hollywood with her responsibilities as a mother.

The movie star - who has Kaavia, six, with Dwyane Wade, and is also the stepmother to Zaire, 23, Dahveon, 21, Zaya, 17, and Xavier, 11 - told Marie Claire magazine's Motherhood Issue: "I felt much more conflicted about my lack of balance with Zaire and Dahveon because their needs were just different and they needed me to be physically present.

"But there's no balance. I can't work in Atlanta 12 to 16 hours a day and think that I can have balance when I'm flying in on the weekends. Now I rely heavily on our village and there is ...