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The Country Strong starlet is really putting herself out there while marketing her latest movie!

After happily giving birth to her first daughter Apple in 2004, actress Gwyneth Paltrow had a wildly different experience after birthing son Moses two years later. She talks about her experience in the latest issue of Good Housekeeping:

    "I felt like a zombie. I couldn't access my heart. I couldn't access my emotions. I couldn't connect. It was terrible, it was the exact opposite of what had happened when Apple was born. With her, I was on cloud nine. I couldn't believe it wasn't the same. I just thought it meant I was a terrible mother and a terrible person. I thought postpartum depression meant you were sobbing every single day and incapable of looking after a child. But there are different shades of it and depths of it, which is why I think it's so important for women to talk about it. It was a trying time. I felt like a failure."


And who was the person to help Gwyn out? Chris Martin of course! "About four months into it, Chris came to me and said, 'Something's wrong. Something's wrong.' I kept saying, 'No, no, I'm fine.' But Chris identified it, and that sort of burst the bubble."

Gwyn adds that she "can depend" on her hubby and that she "makes me feel special." Sounds like their marriage is still going strong!