Jada Pinkett Smith is Net-A-Porter's cover girl for their latest magazine issue.

In addition to posing for the magazine, the 42-year-old mother and actress also got candid in her Net-A-Porter cover story about her marriage to Will Smith and her thoughts on her daughter Willow Smith's Instagram photo controversy.

Back in May, a photo with Willow, 13, and Disney actor Moises Arias, 20, laying in bed together surfaced on Instagram and caused public outrage from critics who felt the photo was inappropriate, especially given the age gap between the two friends.

At the time of the incident, Jada defended her daughter and told TMZ paparazzi, "Here's the deal: there was nothing sexual about that picture or that situation," she said. "You guys are projecting your trash onto it, and you're acting like covert pedophiles, and that's not cool."

While that was Jada's initial response to Willow's photo controversy in May, she still stands firm in her belief that the controversial Instagram photo of her daughter is innocent.

"Just don't pollute something that's not dirty," Jada said during her Net-A-Porter interview. "It's really tough. I feel like the connection to the value of women on a bigger scale has decreased tremendously. Even though you look and go, 'Women have so many opportunities,' it's like, 'Yeah, but at what cost?' Are women valued for being women, or are women valued when they have more masculine qualities? Men and women encompass both female and masculine energies, but it seems like when the feminine is present, it's not respected."

Jada also shut down rumors that she and Will Smith's marriage was on the rocks.

The "Gotham" actress explained that, after years of being with Will Smith, she and Will have developed a "flow" in their relationship and because of that, their relationship has been better than ever.

"The thing I love is being in a place where it's just like, Will, to me, encompasses everything. It's almost as if calling him 'my husband' is too small of a word for what he means in my life -- and especially how I feel we, as women, identify the idea of a husband. I really had to mature and expand that. I think I had a very stuck idea of what a husband looks like, what a wife should be. Once I broke all of that, a whole new world opened for me and man, oh, man, I got to see him in all his glory. And so that's what it's evolved into. And I'm just ecstatic about it."

Click here to read Jada Pinkett Smith's full Net-A-Porter cover story.

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