Gemma Arterton, 36, who once wasn’t sure if she wanted a baby, caresses her baby bump

She’s a former Bond girl who was once unsure if she wanted children – but it seems Gemma Arterton is now pregnant.

The 36-year-old actress was spotted stroking her curvy tummy while chatting with a friend in London’s lively Soho area.

Dressed in a tight black maternity top, leggings and a Burberry trench coat, she appeared in high spirits as she patted her bump with her hand.

The daughter of a welder and a cleaner, Arterton grew up on a council estate in Kent and won a grant to train with Rada before starring in 2008’s Bond film Quantum Of Solace as the seductive agent Strawberry Fields.

The St Trinian’s actress, who was laughing and joking with pal Elliot Levey last week, is married to Irish actor Rory Keenan, who appeared in Peaky Blinders.

The couple married in a secret ceremony in County Wicklow in September 2019.

The daughter of a welder and a cleaner, Arterton grew up on a council estate in Kent and won a grant to train with Rada before starring in 2008’s Bond film Quantum Of Solace as the seductive agent Strawberry Fields.

The actress, who has not yet officially announced her pregnancy, has said in previous interviews that she is not sure about having children.

“I don’t think you can ever plan for the right, exact time,” she told The Times in 2013.

“I don’t feel ready to have kids because I want to know that I can come back and still be valuable to the industry. That’s only going to happen when I feel a little more polished . . . or at least when I’ve accomplished something, at which I am proud of.

Wearing a tight black maternity top, leggings and a Burberry trench coat, she appeared in good spirits as she stroked her bump with her hand.

In an interview with the Telegraph in 2018, Arterton revealed similar concerns about juggling children with a career: ‘I’m a neurotic person though and I worry and think, ‘Oh my God, when I have kids, am I still going to be able to do all this?’

“When we were kids, my mom and grandma didn’t work, and I think that made them sad. It affected me.”

Arterton, who later wrote a fictional story about a Bond girl who rejected a spy’s advances, also said people were ‘threatened’ by women who did not want children.

She declined to comment yesterday.