Gillian Anderson is opening up about her return to work mere days after giving birth.
On Wednesday, April 3, while appearing on NBC's TODAY show, the actress revealed that she went back to work on the set of her hit television show X-Files just 10 days after giving birth to her first child, Piper, in 1994.
"If I didn’t feel so guilty that I got pregnant in the first season, I might have taken better care of myself and been more thoughtful about what I needed for my best interest at the time," the actress told TODAY co-anchor Savannah Guthrie.
"But I think I was so wrapped up in: 'I almost got fired, I’ll mess this up, I’ll do whatever they say.' So yeah, 10 days after a C-section," she added. "But we’re still talking about it, right? It’s interesting. Whatever it was, 30 years ago."
According to the Paid Leave US (PL+US), an advocacy group, one in four women living in the United States return to work just two weeks after childbirth. To date, the United States is the only high-income nation that does not mandate paid maternity, paternity, family or medical leave.
