Zooey Deschanel is going to be a mom later this year—and slipping into a bikini post-baby is apparently dead last on her list of priorities.
In fact, such a triviality didn't even make the list.
"Haven't we all seen those pictures of a sexy new mom in a bikini after one month? I will not be that person," Cosmopolitan's June 2015 cover girl, who's expecting her first child with producer boyfriend Jacob Pechenik, told the magazine. "I've always gone my own course and never been someone who had the need to be super skinny."
We wouldn't exactly call the fab cleavage and teeny waistline that Deschanel is flaunting for Cosmo average... but she insists that she has attained what just happens to be her picture-perfectness by rational means.
"I like a healthy look," the New Girl star continued. "I don't buy into that skinny-is-better mentality. I just eat healthy and work out and don't worry about my weight too much. Actresses aren't models, and most of them never wanted to be."
The actress is also a former face of Rimmel cosmetics, but chalk it up to just one more thing she's been good at.
"I'm very focused," Deschanel said when asked about how she achieved the level success that she has. "I work all the time, but I do what I love and I don't care what people think of it. You don't become successful by trying to be ‘a success.' You become successful by doing things that give you pleasure. That's a hallmark of mine."
She also happens to be starring on a sitcom during a "good time for women on TV," she added. "We can be funny in our own way...and funny doesn't mean just one thing. Funny isn't just one-liners. It's big personalities and individualism."
With that being said, Deschanel thinks that it's important to treat female stars like more than "clothes models" on the red carpet.
"I'm all for people asking actresses more intelligent questions," she said when asked about the #AskHerMore campaign that made headlines during the most recent awards season. "Just because you're wearing a nice dress doesn't mean you don't have any ideas. It's a shame to reduce smart, talented women to clothes models.
"But you can be a feminist and femmy. I don't see how those things contradict each other."
And while Deschanel recently led for the end of "adorkable," she may have just started something with "femmy."
The June issue of Cosmopolitan is on sale May 12.