Zoe Saldana/Facebook Zoe Saldaña tells PEOPLE that she's ready to "be a little more present" in her kids' lives after her historic Oscar win TheGuardians of the Galaxystar took home the the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role inEmilia Pérez The actress is a mom to three boys — Zen, 8, and twins Bowie and Cy, 10 After her historic 2025 Oscars win,Zoe Saldañahas one thing on her mind — her family. The Marvel actress, 46, recently chatted with PEOPLE about hercollaboration with T-Mobileto inspire people to switch to the phone company for a free iPhone 16 Pro without trading in any device. During the conversation, Saldaña opens up about the one thing she's most excited for now that she has taken homethe Academy Award for Best Supporting Actressfor her role inEmilia Pérez. "It's a dream come true and I am just convincing myself that I earned it and I deserved it, and allowing that to just make me feel happy and grateful," Saldaña tells PEOPLE. "I'm sort of waving off that fear that always wants to creep in of what's next." Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. "The moment everything was over, I just really just wanted to go back home and just take my kids to school and be a little more present in their lives because they took this leap of faith with me — my whole family did — and I wanted to catch up on this time," she says. "It's through their eyes that I'm able to understand the impact of being recognized for this [and] what it means for us and for anybody. It's just so great." Saldaña and husbandMarco Peregowed in June 2013. Together, they have welcomed three boys —Zen, 8, and twins Bowie and Cy, 10. The star has previously shared that she tries to keep her kids out of the spotlight. "Marco and I have a great deal of respect for theprivacy of our kids," she told PEOPLE in 2017. "We have to choose for them and part of that is giving them the anonymity that they need." Elsewhere in her conversation with PEOPLE, theAvataractress explains that while her three boys typically "don't care" about her work, theycompared her recent accomplishmentto winning the World Cup. "My work is kind of like their backyard, so they do understand it and ... they care about it and then they don't," she said. "It's only through the eyes, I guess, of friends of theirs then that they'll come home and they'll be like, ... 'That's pretty cool, mom, that you've got this like big thing.' " "They think in soccer language," she continued, adding, "It's very much like, 'It's kind of like the World Cup, Mom. It's like the World Cup of acting.'" Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times via Getty The PEOPLE Appis now available in the Apple App Store! Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! After her big win at the Academy Awards, she took in the moment with the people who matter most in her life — her family. When she spoke withLive with Kelly and MarkhostsKelly Ripa, 54, andMark Consuelos,54, backstage about the moment, she FaceTimed with herthree sons. "Mom won! Mom won!" she enthusiastically said to her boys, as she held the award up in front of the camera. Saldaña has previously opened up aboutnot raising her boys with gender-specific roles, but "teaching our little boys to honor women and to celebrate women." "We're very hard on our boys the same way we're hard on women. And boys are encouraged to be strong and to suppress their emotions," she explained to PEOPLE in 2023. "And then once you learn to do that so much for so long, you become completely excommunicated from your feelings," she continued. "We definitely understood the assignments and accepted it knowing that we were raising boys during a time when women's movements are so important." Read the original article onPeople
