Piper: Motherhood is 'beautiful but testing'

Billie Piper has confessed she finds motherhood both “beautiful and brilliant” and “tough and testing”, but she still wants to have another baby.

The 27-year-old 'Diary Of A Call Girl' star – mother to 16-month-old son Winston with actor husband Laurence Fox – told how coming from a big family has made her want brothers and sisters for her son.

She said: “Both of us are from really big families – Laurence is one of five, I’m one of four, so it’s just madness and hysteria all the time.

“It’s quite a nice healthy combination of boys and girls, it’s nice coming from a big family, but I’m not sure if I could go for the four, certainly not the five.”

And her difficult 26-hour labour, followed by an emergency Caesarean section with Winston has not put her off.

She said: “Well, it was labour so... it was long. But that hasn’t frightened me at all really.

“I think you have selective memory when it comes to those things so I really hope I can have another child, we’ll have another child, but I’m not sure when that will be.”