Hollywood actress Sandra Bullock is glad to embrace motherhood as she is unable to imagine life without her five-year-old stepdaughter Sunny.

The 'Miss Congeniality' star said that she had never planned to be a mum because she always felt she was "too selfish" to have kids, but she's smitten with husband Jesse James' daughter from his marriage to Janine Lindemulder, Contactmusic reported.

"The universe put this (little girl) in our lap. I seemed to have stepped in right when I needed to be there. I now know that anything sweet, really sweet, that I have was nothing that I planned," Bullock said.

"If you don't have kids and animals, you don't truly know what real life is about," Bullock said.

The 45-year-old actress insisted that at one point of time even marriage seemed a distant dream for her, but now she's content of her decision to walk down the aisle with James.

"I was good at bolting before. I didn't want to do the work. Now I work at what I love. If I didn't love him (James), I wouldn't be putting in the effort. I approach things differently now that I'm married. I would never do anything that would harm his heart," Bullock said.