(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Drew Barrymore thinks people should stop using anti-depressants and get some puppies instead.

The 35-year-old star has had a successful career spanning decades, and has famously suffered drama in the past including a battle with drug addiction as a child star.

Drew insists shes very content with life right now and attributes all her happiness to her many dogs and their puppies.

I have six dogs right now and they just sit around with these puppies. Im telling you, put the anti-depressants down and pick the puppies up, nothing in this world makes you happier than puppies, laughed the star in an interview on the British show Daybreak.

Drew is currently single and says she is in no rush to settle down and have children, teasing that her pet dogs take up enough of her time as it is.

I very much take that as the highest compliment, responded the star when the interviewer told her she would make a great mother.

But I have puppies right now which is cool. My dog just gave birth to four puppies.

Drew has been married and divorced twice, to Welsh barman Jeremy Thomas and then to the actor Tom Green, and she is currently dating actor Justin Long.

Drew explained that she has become less of a romantic as she gets older, and says she thinks about love in far more practical terms nowadays.

I think in my 20s I was much for into fairytales, I really believed life would be like a movie and have a happy ending. In your 30s you become very pragmatic. Youre like, OK, life goes on, you wake up the next day. How is this going to function and work?

You have to be inspired by somebody, so I do think its more about making a relationship work than a happy ending, she added. (C) Cover Media