When Academy Award-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow stepped away from Hollywood to be a stay-at-home mom, people wondered if she had made the right decision. Like many women who put a successful career on hold to raise their kids, she was taking a leap of faith. But to Paltrow, that didn't factor much into her decision.

In a recent interview, she said:

"You know, they change so quickly and the idea of someone else being there when they do their first this or say their first that is just, like, it makes me die."

Paltrow is married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, and the couple have two kids, Apple, 4 and Moses, 2. Paltrow recently spoke about her bout with post-partum depression after Moses was born. It was then, she said, when she was depressed, unable to take off the baby weight, and hanging around in her sweats all day, that she began to worry Hollywood might not take her back.

It appears that her fears are unfounded. Paltrow is returning to the big screen as Pepper Potts, alongside Robert Downey, Jr. in Ironman, which will be in theaters May 2. She chose the part partially because it allowed her to work only a few days a week, making her transition from stay-at-home mom to working mom a smooth one.

Not many moms get to grace the cover of Vogue when they head back into their career, but for Paltrow, it's all in a day's work.