Jodie Whittaker kept her pregnancy a secret while filming her final scenes in ‘Doctor Who’.
The 41-year-old actress was expecting her second child while filming the BBC sci-fi series and welcomed her baby in 2022, but Jodie has revealed she wanted to keep her news quiet despite suffering from severe morning sickness.
She told the Guardian newspaper: “I had morning sickness that avoided mornings. It was an all-day event.”
But Jodie feels proud to have been the first pregnant Doctor Who: “The first Doctor with two hearts. I was able to tell a kid at Comic-Con I was the method for the first time. All these people are like you” is not qualified, as a woman, to play an alien. The first time you’ve had a doctor with two hearts, you do!”
Jodie didn’t publicly reveal her pregnancy until she attended the BRIT Awards in February 2022 and showed off her baby bump on the red carpet.
After finishing her final scenes on ‘Doctor Who’, Jodie moved to Australia for five months with her husband Christian Contreras and their two children to work on the drama ‘One Night’ and says she made the decision because she wanted to for the family to be together in one location after spending so much time filming on location for the BBC show.
She added: “I had been away for so long doing Doctor Who [it mostly filmed in Cardiff] and it was an absolute pleasure, but I didn’t live in the same city as my family for much of it. So I thought, I have to do something really practical. And then I read ‘One Night’ … I thought, I have to play this role. What can we do?”
Jodie and Christian married in 2008, but she keeps details of their relationship and their children out of the limelight.
Back in 2011, the actress revealed that the couple married in the Christian home state of Arizona when she was 26. She told The Independent newspaper: “We had a big wedding in Arizona – very attention-grabbing, big dress, big guest list. wedding. It was obviously in my top five days…
“I felt really young when I got married at just 26, especially living and working somewhere as fast-paced as London – where you can’t even plan for the next week, let alone commit to anything for the rest of your life. But I’m a good wife, even if I think I’m a bit rubbish at home.”
