Ripper Street star has the mother of all surprises

SHE chose to keep her pregnancy quiet, announcing she was expecting her first child only by debuting her burgeoning baby bump on the red carpet.

And now MyAnna Buring has revealed she welcomed a son in May.

During her appearance on yesterday’s Lorraine, the Ripper Street actress, 37, revealed: ‘Eight weeks ago I had my baby!’

Referencing her role as pregnant detective Helen Weeks in BBC drama In The Dark, the Swedish actress explained: ‘My character was pregnant then I got pregnant!

She continued: ‘When I filmed I had a baby bump and I got to practise what it looked like to be pregnant. I liked it so much I did it myself!’

She added: ‘[Acting] it was nothing like actually being pregnant!

Revealing that she hadn’t set a fixed time to get back to business, she explained that she was enjoying their bonding time. ‘He smells so good!’ MyAnna gushed. ‘All he does is bathe in his own milk and throw up... but it’s so divine!’

MyAnna recently explained why she never talks about her private life, explaining that because she started working as an actress in her 30s, she didn’t feel ‘pressure’ to dish the dirt about personal matters. ‘I don’t talk about my personal life ever and quite early on I decided that was out of bounds,’ she told the Daily Express.

‘If I was in my early twenties, I might feel pressure to talk about home life.’

The Downton Abbey star added: ‘I have my friends and my family I can talk to about issues in my life, so I don’t feel it’s something I need to talk to the whole world about.’