Margot Robbie sets boundaries on discussing personal life

Margot Robbie says she is making a conscious effort to keep her private life under wraps as she navigates fame.

The Barbie star, 35, told British Vogue in a recent interview that most of it has to do with protecting her son, whom she welcomed with her husband Tom Ackerley, also 35, in October 2024.

“I’m trying to keep that side of things private and protect[ing] him,” she told the magazine.

"Earlier in my career, I’d speak more freely in interviews. I’ve just been burnt so many times when people have taken what I’ve said out of context," explained Robbie.

"And I read stuff all the time where people put me in quotation marks saying things I’ve never said."

She continued, "I remember the first time, 10 years ago, seeing that in a newspaper and I could not get my head around it. I was like, 'They just made it up?' There was no way for me to change or control it. I just had to accept that."

The Australian actress, who married Ackerley in December 2016, added that moving into her 30s was what made her establish clearer boundaries.

"When you shift from your 20s to your 30s and beyond, you think, ‘I am going to do things differently. Here are my new boundaries," she added.

Robbie also opened up about filming Wuthering Heights three months postpartum. “I was in a very different headspace. I didn't do my usual routine. It was more haphazard," she told the outlet.

Writer-director Emerald Fennell encouraged her to focus on the moment rather than preparation, which Robbie described as “a lovely way of relieving my anxiety."

"It was about being in my body as opposed to my head,” she concluded.