Drew is featured on the cover of the June issue of Red Magazine.

There’s something eternally likeable about Drew Barrymore. She can’t cook, isn’t keen on her arms and finds her daughter’s toddler-meltdowns funny. Here she talks to Sarah Kennedy about being a hands-on mum and the importance of ambition.

‘I am so ready to not be pregnant now,’ confesses Drew Barrymore with a rueful grin. As she chats to Red, baby number two is imminent, but California girl Barrymore certainly looks none the worse for being in chilly New York City. She seems to glow with health, although she admits her body is craving the warmth of LA.

‘I’ve been here for a month now, so I’m all out of whack,’ she says. ‘I am not feeling the greatest but, hey, it’s all good.’ She gives a big shrug and smiles sunnily.

On the day we meet, Barrymore’s daughter Olive is at home with her dad, actor and art consultant Will Kopelman. After a long friendship, the Barrymore-Kopelmans married in 2012 and are currently staying with his New York-based parents. Although rumours are swirling around the Big Apple that the couple have just bought a Park Avenue apartment, California is still home. The new baby – another girl – will probably be born there and Barrymore’s obviously excited about the prospect of adding to her brood.

‘I am loving being a mom,’ she grins. ‘Olive is a year and a half now so, when the new baby comes, they will be close together in age. I think, just get it done – it will be awesome!’

Wearing black skinny jeans, an oversized Breton-striped sweatshirt and Rag & Bone ankle boots, Barrymore, 39, looks like many other Red mums. One of your friends, in fact. That is, if one of your friends happened to be a Hollywood star, film producer, director, bestselling author, beauty entrepreneur and philanthropist. And she’s showing no sign of slowing down.

Read the full Drew Barrymore interview in the June issue, on sale 1st May 2014.