Sandra Bullock's maternal adoration

Mar 15, 2007, 9:00 GMT

Sandra Bullock arrives for the 9th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California Saturday 17 February 2007. EPA/JOSHUA GATES WEISBERG

Sandra Bullock loves being a stepmother.

The 'Premonition' actress, who has denied she is pregnant with her first child, says she is already experiencing motherhood through her relationship with husband Jesse James' three children from his previous marriages.

Sandra told US magazine People: "I have children, amazing children. My love and my hopes for their future and their happiness, for their homework to be done and for them to know how smart and beautiful they are is no less than if they were my own biological children.

"I have my family, and it's the family that some higher power put in my path. I feel really lucky."

Jesse and Sandra live together in California just minutes away from his first wife Karla and their children Chandler, 12, and nine-year-old Jesse Jr.

The motorcycle tycoon's second wife Janine also lives close-by with his three-year-old daughter Sunny.

Sandra has a philosophical approach when it comes to having her own children.

She said: "If that's going to happen, that's exactly the way things are supposed to be, and it would be amazing. And if it didn't happen, then I'd know that it wasn't meant to be."

(C) BANG Media International