She has four children, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild, but Elizabeth Taylor says Mother's Day this weekend is no big thing.

"It's not like Thanksgiving, when we all get together," Taylor said in an interview with the Associated Press. "I think maybe half of my children will be here; they're spread all over the world, and I never know if they're coming."

Taylor said she believes Mother's Day is "a commercial rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things."

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The 70-year-old actress, star of films such as "National Velvet," "Giant," "Cleopatra" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" has been in the perfume business since 1986.

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