Teri's Top Priority

Teri HatcherTeri Hatcher has snatched the most important role of her lifetime...

And it's not playing Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives.

Teri's biggest priority is being a good mum to her 9-year-old daughter, Emerson Rose.

"I'm really clear about my priority in my life - it's being a mom," she told Easy Living magazine.

"I have enough difficulty balancing doing the show for ten and a half months with being a mom the way I want to be."

Teri took five years off work to be at home with her daughter before Desperate Housewives - something she still longs for:

"I still want to be at home. I want to be doing homework, I want to be making dinner."

Teri with daughter Emerson RoseShe continued: "I'll work a 14-hour day, four days in a row and feel like I've been run over. But I don't call it tired, I call it, 'Nothing is right, and I'm no good at my job and I'm horrible and no one will ever love me.'

"This is a serial problem for mothers. We're trying to be everything all the time... And it's too much.

As for a move back into the big screen, Teri revealed: "I love doing films, and I'd like to do that, but I wouldn't like to do it more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother...

"I threw an enormous Halloween party last year - I built a huge maze with corn and hay. That's what I should do - I should be a party planner."