“I’ve known my partner for five years,” she told the magazine in 2014.

“I knew of his work.

I knew of him.

Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego posing together

Then we met.”

“We did it three weeks later.

That part was very, very quick.”

Zoe Saldana and Marco Perego posing together

Learning not to settle.

“If you’re not happy with a person, leave,” Zoe Saldana toldMarie Claire.

“And I know that my husband can say the same.”

The actress also shared that she’s teaching her boys not to conform to gender norms and stereotypes.