Billie Piper has cervical screening as she turns 38

‘Turned 38, had a cervical screening’: Billie Piper looks stony faced as she dons Led Zeppelin T-shirt which represents ‘my mood’ on her birthday

Billie Piper looked stony-faced as she marked her 38th birthday on Friday.

The actress took to Instagram to share a stony faced snap in a Led Zeppelin T-shirt after she visited her doctors for a cervical screening. 

Billie failed to raise a smile in the photo and said the T-shirt of the rocker band represented ‘my mood’.   

Important: Billie Piper looked stony-faced as she marked her 38th birthday on Friday after going for a cervical screening

Cervical screening (a smear test) checks for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells of your cervix.  

Billie wrote: ‘Turned 38. Had a cervical screening. Turned off all notifications on my phone and decided that this look suited my face, my mood and my agenda. Thanks for all your lovely birthday messages . Very thoughtful.’

The actress was soon flooded with well wishes from her celebrity pals.  

Moody: Billie wrote: 'Turned 38. Had a cervical screening. Turned off all notifications on my phone and decided that this look suited my face, my mood and my agenda'

Moody: Billie wrote: ‘Turned 38. Had a cervical screening. Turned off all notifications on my phone and decided that this look suited my face, my mood and my agenda’

Well wishes: 'Thanks for all your lovely birthday messages . Very thoughtful,' Billie added

Well wishes: ‘Thanks for all your lovely birthday messages . Very thoughtful,’ Billie added

Ferne Cotton commented: ‘Happy birthday wonderful Billie. Ps can I have your T shirt’, while Gemma Chan typed: ‘We love you.’

Douglas Booth said: ‘Happy Birthday Piper!!’ and Poppy Delevingne put a love heart emoji . 

 The singer-turned-actress burst onto the pop scene back in 1998 at the tender age of 15 with her debut chart-topping hit Because We Want To.

Happy Birthday! The actress was soon flooded with well wishes from her celebrity pals

Happy Birthday! The actress was soon flooded with well wishes from her celebrity pals

Most recently Billie has been lauded for her portrayal of a former pop singer, I Hate Suzie, on Sky Atlanta. 

The actress plays the titular character Suzie Pickles, who has her life thrown into disarray when intimate photos of her in a compromising position with a man who isn’t her husband, are leaked online.  

Earlier this month, she told the Radio Times of tapping into her character: ‘I know exactly what that feels like and I’m sure it feeds into my performance. I’m only coming to terms with a lot of it right now.  

Talented: Most recently Billie has been lauded for her portrayal of a former pop singer, I Hate Suzie, on Sky Atlanta

Talented: Most recently Billie has been lauded for her portrayal of a former pop singer, I Hate Suzie, on Sky Atlanta

‘In my 20s a lot of my stress from that period was buried, and I still struggle to remember a lot of it. I don’t regret it. I love what I do and where I’m at personally.

‘But I certainly wouldn’t want my children to go that way. There’s an anxiety of me as a child that I probably on some levels smother my children with.’ 

Billie shares sons Winston, 11, and Eugene, eight, with ex-husband Laurence Fox, and has 19-month-old daughter Tallulah with Johnny Lloyd. 

Scary: The actress plays the titular character Suzie Pickles, who has her life thrown into disarray when intimate photos of her with a man who isn't her husband, are leaked online

Scary: The actress plays the titular character Suzie Pickles, who has her life thrown into disarray when intimate photos of her with a man who isn’t her husband, are leaked online