I had decided I wanted to get pregnant in February… oh my God, I’d forgotten about this! I’d just got back from India and was going straight into filming The X-Files movie. I knew that I wanted to have the baby at a certain time because there was another film I wanted to do after that. Yeah, so the perfect time was February and…’ She puts her hand over her mouth. ‘I was bloody lucky, but I was also determined because I didn’t want to be too nauseous by the time we had finished filming The X-Files. And I’d worked out the amount of time it took me to get big last time.’ So she’s not a control freak then. ‘Oh dear, I am aren’t I?’ She laughs. 'The first two weren’t planned.’ Did she and her partner synchronise diaries for when she was ovulating? 'Not quite, but it is hard work when you decide to plan it. It can get very unromantic, especially when you are working 16-hour days. You get home at 3am and say, “OK, we have to do it now.” “But it’s three o'clock in the morning!” Then when you wake up it’s: “What? Again? Before I go to work? Oh no”.
Gillian Anderson bares all Telegraph, UK May 1, 2009 By Nigel Farndale
