She told the magazine, 'When I was younger I didn't like the idea of having this name attached to me, this kind of 'Douglas dynasty' stuff.
'I think what bothers me the most is that people think I don't work hard for it, that I don't need to work hard for it. That anything I do gets handed to me.'
'When, honestly, I feel like it's the opposite. I feel I need to constantly prove myself to people—that I am not just my parents' daughter.'
Catherine also opened up to the magazine, gushing over her daughter: 'She has her own individual style. She's modern but age-appropriate. I've never had to turn to Carys and say, 'I think that's a little inappropriate.'
She added: 'She has a mysteriousness about her. But she's still a teenager.'
Carys credits her parents for keeping herself and brother Dylan, 18, grounded.
She said: 'My parents do a really good job of reality-checking me and being like, 'Look around you. The life you have is extraordinary'.'
'What I instilled in my kids, and I'm very, very proud of it, is manners,' Zeta-Jones also said.
'There's nothing worse than a privileged kid without manners. I drilled it into them like boot camp. The teenage years.
'She knows she cannot roll her eyes at me, or huff and puff around me. I never did it to my mother, and she's not doing it to me.'