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Katie Holmes Is Seriously Not a Morning Person

PEOPLE
By Kate Coyne
10/31/14

Katie Holmes opens up about starting over, her life as a single mom and finding love again. Subscribe now for instant access to the exclusive PEOPLE interview.

She's a mom, movie star and budding director. Just don't put Katie Holmes in charge of breakfast.

"My first two pancakes are always burned," the actress, 35, tells PEOPLE of her typical morning chaos in this week's exclusive cover story. "Well, sometimes it's not just the first two, and I'm seriously under pressure because it's the last part of the batter and I'm flipping it, and it's about to break apart, and I'm thinking, 'No, please, please, don't break … this is going to set the tone for the whole day. The whole day could be ruined by this!'"

(Maybe this no-recipe pancake hack would help?)

She also admits that she may occasionally abuse her favorite alarm button.

"[I'll be] slapping at the three alarms I have set in case I miss one of them, just going, 'Snooze, snooze, snooze,' thinking, 'It can't be. It can't be time to get up now,' " she says.

"I'm an Olympic sleeper," she adds with a laugh. "Could that be a thing? Could we have a sleeping Olympics? I would get the gold."

For much more on Katie Holmes, including her feelings on falling in love again, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday