Gwyneth Paltrow revealed in a newsletter on her GOOP website that she struggled with postpartum depression after her son Moses, 4, was born.
She wrote:
When my son, Moses, came into the world in 2006, I expected to have another period of euphoria following his birth, much the way I had when my daughter was born two years earlier. Instead I was confronted with one of the darkest and most painfully debilitating chapters of my life. For about five months I had, what I can see in hindsight as postnatal depression.”
Gwyneth has talked in the past about suffering from the condition but only realized what was wrong with her once she had overcome it.
She said:
“I didn’t know I had it until after it was over. I just didn’t know what was wrong with me. I felt really out of my body. I felt really disconnected. I felt really down. I felt pessimistic.”
In the newsletter, Gwyneth also included a piece written by actress Bryce Dallas Howard, detailing her own battle with postpartum depression after giving birth to her son Theo.
Bryce shared:
“It is strange for me to recall what I was like at that time. I seemed to be suffering emotional amnesia. I couldn’t genuinely cry, or laugh, or be moved by anything.”
I give them both a lot of credit for talking openly about it. So often PPD is something that women keep to themselves and feel like they’ll be judged if they admit to having those feelings.
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Gwyneth really gets on my nerves
More and more celebrities are starting to experience depression
When women started to publicize this I felt like it was an undercover problem that most women were doomed to suffer from, But when I start to really focus and pay attention to who , what, and how these women ( wether they were in the media as stars or regular stay at home moms) were addressing this a unfortunate hidden h3ll they were in….. Pls note , I’m not trying to be craps or mean, but this is a load of Sh!t, some women do Have postpartum – depression for the pressure of having maybe their first ( out of fear they wouldn’t be a good enough mother and/ or not ready for a kid. which is understandable) and
When women started to publicize this I felt like it was an undercover problem that most women were doomed to suffer from, But when I start to really focus and pay attention to who , what, and how these women ( wether they were in the media as stars or regular stay at home moms) were addressing this a unfortunate hidden h3ll they were in….. Pls note , I’m not trying to be craps or mean, but this is a load of Sh!t,
cont:some women do Have postpartum – depression for the pressure of having maybe their first ( out of fear they wouldn’t be a good enough mother and/ or not ready for a kid. which is understandable) and then the women who have kids and can’t dream of how they will take care of another, when the kid finally arrives ( a shock to the system) , but these SELF ABSORDED WH0RES, COME ON…..ATTENTION IS WHAT THESE WOMEN HAVE COME ACCUSTOM TO. GWYNETH :
cont:Her dad showered her with TOO MUCH PRAISE, that went to her big head, Brooke Shield’s: How is one quarter nuts ( I was here in a tv doc. and she isn’t quite there) and Bryce Howard: riding off of her dad’s fame give that I’m great attitude ( too much , where she looks and comes off FAKE) and many more Holly- Brats. Bryce’s attention was crushed , when her son came on scene….
cont:WHO SAYS …”I just wanted to disappear , when I seen him. I’m a rotten mom, really, Rotten”? Yes, you are. Why look at your child with such detachment? Really, people think about what I’m saying. These women have always but themselves as the center of attention… Now, look at it this way, if that child was an opposing attention grabber, People like them get jealous ,when the attention is no longer focused on them , and now the have to give it, instead of getting it. …..
cont: It suck that this site won’t upload a whole comment. it has to be broken down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…really, that is petty and shameful , to use a real problem that women who really having this as an issue , it’s a chemical imbalance, out of fear , more than jealous nonsense. They’re trying to use this as an excuse , to e excused for they bad behavior and mind set toward their kids. Women having kids before they mind and spirits are ready for them. And blaming some condition for their obvious selfish behaviors grow up!