I'd have as many as I could possibly have!

Catherine Zeta Jones

"I'm one girl in a family of lots of boys. And Michael has brothers too, so I'm only going to have men around me," she told a Sunday newpaper.

"I want three kids, while Michael said he'd have two - so I'll have to negotiate for the third child, but I definitely want more.

"I'd have as many as I could possibly have!"

Catherine, 31, gave birth to Dylan in the United States last August.

Last week she and her husband were back in her home town of Swansea with him to celebrate his first birthday with family and friends.

Baby Dylan has been kept out of the limelight

Catherine and her American husband - who once claimed to be enamoured by Wales and its people but not its "brutal" weather - took over a suite in the city's Marriott Hotel.

The Welsh side of the family gathered there for a birthday celebration before the the couple flew out of Swansea airport with baby Dylan and his nanny.

During the final days of their visit the couple spent their time visiting and relatives, with Douglas, 56, playing the occasional round of golf at Clyne Golf Course with his father-in-law Dai.

Jones officially opened a new wing of Swansea's Grand Theatre - the venue where she landed her stage first role in the musical Annie.

'Hard-working parents'

Speaking to the News of the World magazine on Sunday, Jones star took the opportunity to hit out at false stories that she had a poverty-stricken childhood in Swansea and went round "begging for cake" because her family could not afford decent meals.

Her parents had, in fact, worked hard and brought the family up in a "lovely house", she said.

"I know it's a wonderful story to write about the girl from Wales who made good, but that's not the way it is," she said.

Catherine will soon be on cinema screens in the US with her new film America's Sweethearts, in which she stars alongside Julia Roberts.

She insisted there was "no animosity at all" between the two actresses despite rumours that they did not get on.