Natalie Dormer has revealed she secretly gave birth to her first child during lockdown.
The actress welcomed a baby girl with her boyfriend David Oakes in January.
The 39-year-old shared the news on her friend Esther Rantzen’s podcast, That’s After Life, and said: “It’s the perfect thing to do during a pandemic – get pregnant, have a baby.”
“I feel like I’m probably being a bit of a cliché, she’ll probably be sitting in a bar in 30 years’ time one day going, ‘Yeah, I’m a COVID baby’.
“I think there’s going to be lots of COVID babies because what else can people do, maybe like blitz babies?’
“She’s just three months and she’s an absolute joy, I’m never going to complain about shooting hours ever again because sleep deprivation is something else,” she explained.
“People say, ‘Your whole perspective on life will change, and your whole set of value system’ and you sort of roll your eyes and go ‘yeah, yeah’… and then you have one and you go, ‘Oh. Wow!'”
“I’m in love. I’m absolutely in love, she’s a joy. Sleep has always been quite important to me… that’s the only downside, but you know nature is so clever, the hormones kick in. So you regret it.”
Natalie, best known for her role as Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has been dating David since 2019.
The actress was previously engaged to Irish director Anthony Byrne, but the former couple split in 2018 after 11 years together.
