Chrissy Teigen, Gwyneth Paltrow And Gisele Open Up About Postpartum Depression And The Challenges Of Motherhood
Posted on Thu Sep 27th, 2018 10:10am PDT By X17 Staff
They're determined to make other moms feel less alone.
Chrissy Teigen, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Gisele Bundchen have each separately opened up about their struggles with motherhood this week, and it really does make them more relatable.
The Cravings cookbook author revealed how her battle with postpartum depression after giving birth to daughter Luna made it difficult for her to both work and enjoy the simple pleasures in life.
“I started looking at food and was like, ‘I’m just not in the mood.’ It’s like going to the grocery store when you’re full. You just don’t want the same things. Food wasn’t that thrilling for me. That was one of the first times I knew something was wrong," she told People.
"When I wasn’t feeling great, being in the kitchen was like torture. It felt like such a job, and you want to be excited when you’re in the kitchen. I cook because I love food and I love to eat. It makes me happy to serve people. And when you aren’t feeling that way, it was like torture," she added.
Similarly, the Goop founder battled the post-baby blues after giving birth to her son Moses, and she chose to heal with alternative therapies rather than drugs.
"I had postnatal depression, as you know, after my son. A doctor tried to put me on antidepressants and I thought, if I need them, then yes, I’ll come back to it. I thought, well, what if I went to therapy and I started exercising again, and I stopped drinking alcohol and I just gave myself a period of regeneration and I slept more? I really broke out of it," she admitted on her Goop podcast.
"It was really shocking to me because I never thought that I would be a person who got post-natal depression. I was so euphoric when Apple was born, and I assumed it would happen with Mosey and it just … it took a while. I really went into a dark place," she recalled.
Gisele Bundchen, meanwhile, didn't specifically say she had postpartum, but she did confess that she struggled with her new role after welcoming her first child.
"When I became a mom, I kind of lost myself. It was like a part of me died. I’d been this very independent person. It was all about me. But now I had this little being, and I suddenly felt l couldn’t do other things and that was very hard for me. All I ever wanted was to be a mom, but when you’re actually experiencing that, it’s a shock," she told People.
"I had all this horrible, self-imposed guilt. I thought what a terrible mother I was for leaving my child even for like a day. You’re overwhelmed and tired and then you’re not the nicest partner," she revealed.
Stars - sometimes they are just like us!