Bonham Carter’s full disclosure

Helena Bonham Carter is unusually frank about intimate matters, said Camilla Long in The Sunday Times (U.K.). Just three months after she gave birth to her second child, Nell, Bonham Carter went back to work on the Harry Potter films, even though her pelvic floor was so weak that she peed all over the set. “I couldn’t jump up and down without losing most of my bodily fluid,” she says. “They had these air dryers, huge things—that’s where I’d dry myself off.” Eventually she resorted to diapers. “The girls [on set] were like, ‘How can you?’ But actually, I don’t think I was too embarrassed. There’s something quite liberating about having a baby; there’s less, you know,” she waves her hands, “about everything.” Bonham Carter is amazed that Nell came along at all, as her child was conceived during a low point in her 11-year relationship with director Tim Burton. “You have to have sex to get pregnant, don’t you?” she asks. Bonham Carter only realized she was pregnant when a costumer pointed out that her breasts had “exploded. Like, hell-o.” So she must have had sex at some point? “Yeah, that’s what I can’t remember,” she says. “No, we did do it once.”

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