Gal Gadot attributes her current success to her husband Jaron Varsano. In an interview with Flaunt magazine, published on Thursday, the 38-year-old Wonder Woman actress disclosed that Varsano, 48, was the one who encouraged her to pursue acting. Varsano, who co-produced Gadot’s latest Netflix film Heart of Stone alongside his wife through their production company Pilot Wave, has been a supportive presence in Gadot’s life since before her rise to stardom.

The couple, who tied the knot in 2008, shares three daughters. “He was the one to give me the courage to do it, to travel with me,” Gadot, who initially trained as a dancer, shared with Flaunt. “He’s the dreamer—he’s the kite that will reach out to the sky whereas I’m the root, the tree that the kite is connected to.”

“I would never be where I am without him,” she added. “When success arrived, my parents — well, they never imagined [it could be like] this. So now they’re my number one fans and they’re very supportive — but it took them a bit.”

The actress — who shares daughters Alma, 11, Maya, 6, and Daniella, 2, with Varsano — also opened up about being a working mother of three children.

“Having three children is messy and chaotic in the best way possible,” she said, adding, “If you’re at work, you want to be home. Then, when you’re at home with the kids, you worry you’re not working enough. It can be a vicious cycle—but you have to mute those feelings,” she continued.

“What helps me is [accepting] that I can’t be a perfectionist. I told myself that I can only do my best and that I’m being the best mother I can be,” Gadot told the outlet. “On the other side of that, as long as I’m fulfilling myself and continuing to do what I love and not just giving up on it, then it also services them because they see a mother who is happier, who has interest in her life — and then you’re modeling that to them as well.”

“I think our biggest thing is once we agreed to disagree, it kind of took all the tension away because he has his own point of view, I have my own, and it’s okay if we don’t think the same,” she said.