Hollywood superstar Julia Roberts said she feels the starlets of today have a much harder time than she ever did, with every little detail of their lives splashed over the front pages. The 41-year-old Pretty Woman and Notting Hill star told German celebrity magazine Bunte in an interview: "I am often aware of how much harder it is for young women in Hollywood today."

"I am so relieved and feel so privileged that I am beyond that," added Roberts, who hit the big time when she starred opposite Richard Gere in Pretty Woman at the age of 22.  The mother-of-three, who returned to the screen last month in the espionage caper Duplicity, said her priorities had changed enormously since having children. "Every day I have to... put on puppet shows and read endless stories," she said.

Married to 40-year-old cameraman Danny Moder, Roberts has twins Hazel and Phinnaeus, both four, and Henry, aged one and a half. She won an Oscar in 2001 for Erin Brockovich. In Duplicity she plays a spy alongside her Closer partner Clive Owen.