Gillian Anderson feels 'so guilty' for having a baby and going back to The X Files set 10 days later
ok.co.ukGillian Anderson, the star of Netflix’s new drama Scoop, has opened up about the “guilt” she felt early on her career, when she returned to work on sci-fi series The X-Files just ten days after giving birth.
Speaking on NBC's TODAY show, Gillian revealed she felt “pressured” to return to the cult show which propelled her to megastardom following the birth of her first child, a daughter named Piper, back in 1994. “Ten days after you give birth — by C-section, I might add — you were back at work,” TODAY co-anchor Savannah Guthrie began during an interview on the US talk show on 3 April.
How do you feel about that now?” Savannah asked. “I think if I didn’t feel so guilty that I got pregnant in the first season, that I might have taken better care of myself and been more thoughtful about what I needed,” replied the actress, 55. “But I think I think I was so wrapped up in, 'I almost got fired, I messed up, I’ll do whatever they say.'” “So, yeah, 10 days after a C-section,” she added.
Caesareans, or c-sections as they are more commonly known, are a major surgical procedure in which a baby is cut from the womb instead of delivered naturally, and often require around six to eight weeks of recovery before resuming normal activities.
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