CIA officer Carrie Mathison has a sexy, sultry side to her. The "Homeland" actress has posed topless with Interview magazine in a sexy new shoot where she tells how hard it was for her to make a comeback to the show following the birth of her son Cyrus.

The 34-year-old Claire Danes also revealed that she struggled to pose as a "sexy" teenager for the same magazine when she was 15!

Danes reveals she is enjoying the love for her son and mommy hood even as she works a 12 to 15 hour day on set. She compares her love for her son to being infatuated with a lover.

"That it's physical -- that my missing my son is physical. It's a new kind of pining. It's serious -- I need to be with him," she explained.

"I guess it's closest to being infatuated with a lover or something. But it's not that. It's cellular. So, yeah, that the love for your child is physical was a big surprise. I can't not look at him if he's anywhere nearby, because there's no competition. I can't read. I can't watch a show. I can't do anything but stare at him doing nothing."

However, the actress also revealed that it was hard to get back to work and leave her cushioned life of mommy hood.

"I had just come out of my mommy cocoon and my cushy, mushy love planet. So entering that mania at that point was not as enjoyable," she tells the magazine.

The actress also recalls the time when the same magazine asked her to be "sexy" at 15 years of age and she could not get that.

"At one point, [Spike Jonze, the photographer] said, "Be sexy." So I gave him my 15-year-old idea of what that was. He was like, "Um ... No." I didn't know how to give that-I hadn't had it yet, so I didn't know what it was," she recalls.

However the hot mommy looks ravishing in black pants and a blazer thrown over her shoulders as she reveals her beautiful slim body. The actress compliments the black look by golden eye-makeup and golden accessories.