10 Movie star Mother and father Who Have Been Sincere About Navigating Postpartum Struggles

Ask anybody who has given beginning or welcomed a brand new child into their household they usually’ll inform you that the adjustments that happen to your mind, physique, and your partnership—particularly in the event you’re the one who was pregnant—are innumerable. Not solely has your loved ones unit expanded, you’re now answerable for a tiny individual whereas juggling your individual well being—and everybody who has children goes by way of it, even the wealthy and well-known.

The postpartum interval is a mishmash of bodily and emotional adjustments, and most dad and mom agree it is troublesome to debate precisely the way it feels—actually because these points are stigmatized or include emotions of doubt, disgrace, and guilt. As our tradition will get extra comfy with honesty and vulnerability round psychological and bodily well being, extra high-profile dad and mom are talking out about what they skilled after welcoming a child, from despair and nervousness to physique insecurities. Forward, be taught extra about celebrities who’ve opened up about their postpartum struggles.

Halle Bailey

The Little Mermaid star handled postpartum despair after welcoming son Halo in late 2023. In April 2024, Bailey opened up about her emotions in a Snapchat video, saying, “I’ve extreme, extreme postpartum [depression], and I do not know if any new mothers can relate, however it’s to the purpose the place it is actually unhealthy, and it is arduous for me to be separated from my child for greater than half-hour at a time earlier than I begin to type of freak out.” She added that she felt like “a very totally different individual” and didn’t acknowledge herself. 

“Earlier than I had a baby and I might hear individuals speak about postpartum, it will type of simply go in a single ear and out the opposite. I did not notice how severe of a factor it really was,” the actor and singer defined. “Now going by way of it, it nearly feels such as you’re swimming on this ocean that is like the most important waves you have ever felt and also you’re attempting to not drown. And also you’re attempting to come back up for air.”

Chrissy Teigen

Teigen skilled postpartum despair after the beginning of her first little one, daughter Luna. She opened up in regards to the expertise in an essay for Glamour journal, writing that she “by no means left the home,” misplaced her urge for food, and handled physique pains. 

“Most days have been spent on the very same spot on the sofa and barely would I muster up the vitality to make it upstairs for mattress. John would sleep on the sofa with me, generally 4 nights in a row,” Teigen continued. “I began protecting robes and cozy garments within the pantry so I wouldn’t should go upstairs when John went to work. There was a whole lot of spontaneous crying.” 

After seeing her physician, Teigen was recognized with postpartum despair and nervousness.

Kylie Jenner

The fact star and cosmetics mogul has been very trustworthy about her struggles with postpartum despair after welcoming her two kids, Stormi and Aire. 

“The primary time was very troublesome, the second was extra manageable,” Jenner advised Self-importance Truthful Italia in 2023. “I might inform [women who are struggling] to not overthink issues and to stay all of the feelings of that second to the fullest. Keep inside that second, even whether it is painful. I do know, in these moments you assume that it’s going to by no means cross, that your physique won’t ever be the identical as earlier than, that you’ll by no means be the identical. That’s not true: the hormones, the feelings at that stage are a lot, far more highly effective and larger than you.”

In 2024, Jenner advised British Vogue that she handled postpartum despair for a couple of yr after every beginning. “It hit me otherwise each instances,” she shared. “In all probability with my son it was main child blues, so I used to be simply so emotional over issues that I most likely wouldn’t be that emotional about.”

Olivia Munn

The star mentioned she “wasn’t ready” for postpartum nervousness after the beginning of her first little one, son Malcolm, in 2021. 

“I had heard about postpartum despair. I had by no means heard about postpartum nervousness,” she shared.  “On a scale of 1 to 10, I might put my postpartum nervousness at 100.” She handled the nervousness for practically a yr, explaining that she was “in such a tunnel of hysteria and darkness” and had hassle contemplating treatment. The nervousness finally lifted and went away, although Munn mentioned it was more difficult than her battle with breast most cancers.

“I went by way of one thing difficult this previous yr, however I don’t assume it compares to what I went by way of postpartum.”

Rihanna

After welcoming her two sons, RZA and Riot, Rihanna handled hair loss. “I didn’t anticipate it to occur in waves, both,” she mentioned in summer time 2024. “I believed it will simply occur and develop again, however it went this spot, then this spot… at that time you’re identical to, ‘All proper, sufficient is sufficient!’” Nonetheless, she tried to search out the positives in her state of affairs—in any case, postpartum hair loss is an issue many dad and mom face after giving beginning. “It made me get slightly extra artistic and intelligent with my hairstyles.”

Blake Vigorous

Vigorous, who has 4 kids with husband Ryan Reynolds, opened up about feeling discouraged that she couldn’t match into garments for high-profile appearances shortly after giving beginning in late 2019. She shared a photograph of herself on The Tonight Present in January 2020 on Instagram Tales and famous that she couldn’t discover samples that match, nor may she discover something off the rack that made her really feel good.

“It doesn’t ship an awesome message to ladies when their our bodies don’t match into what manufacturers have to supply. It’s alienating and complicated. And I want I felt as assured then as I do now, a yr later wanting again,” Vigorous wrote on Instagram on the time. “That physique gave me a child. And I used to be producing that child’s total meals provide. What a ravishing miracle. However as a substitute of feeling proud, I felt insecure. Just because I didn’t match into garments. How foolish is that looking back.”

Maren Morris

The musician handled postpartum despair after the beginning of her son in March 2020, which coincided with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I feel a whole lot of identification crises occurred there,” Morris mentioned on an episode of Sunday Right now. “Not simply being a brand new dad or mum and a brand new mom and coping with postpartum despair for the primary time, and reeling from that…But in addition simply understanding my price with out somebody clapping for me.”

Cardi B

The mother of three has detailed a few of her postpartum struggles together with her signature honesty. Not too lengthy after welcoming her first little one, Kulture, Cardi canceled her Invasion of Privateness tour to remain near her child, explaining that she struggled to steadiness new motherhood and being a working musician. 

“My child was so little—germs and planes and ear popping on a new child?” the star advised Rolling Stone of her choice. “I used to be actually, actually scared. Like, rattling, I am letting everyone down. I am letting my household down. I am letting everyone that works for me down.”

Cardi went on to inform the publication that postpartum “f**ked me up” and mentioned, “Postpartum all the pieces. It turns into despair as a result of it is a drastic change.”

After the beginning of her second little one Wave in September 2021, she tweeted that she was coping with a flood of hormones. “Can’t wait until these bizarre postpartum hormones utterly depart my physique,” the musician wrote. “I be crying for no cause.”

Reese Witherspoon

The Oscar winner opened up about her three very totally different postpartum experiences, saying it assorted from little one to little one.  “One child I had type of gentle postpartum, and one child I had extreme postpartum the place I needed to take fairly heavy treatment as a result of I simply wasn’t considering straight in any respect,” Witherspoon defined. “After which I had one child the place I had no postpartum in any respect.”

After the beginning of her first little one, Ava, Witherspoon skilled a “hormonal rollercoaster” after weaning the infant. “Nobody defined that to me. I used to be 23 years outdated after I had my first child and no person defined to me that once you wean a child, your hormones go into the bathroom. I felt extra depressed than I might ever felt in my entire life. It was scary.”

Anne Hathaway

Hathaway, who’s mother to 2 sons, desires different dad and mom to know that the post-baby interval is a protracted journey, and regardless of what you may even see on TV and in magazines, it takes awhile to really feel like your self once more. The star opened up in regards to the unrealistic expectations usually positioned on new dad and mom—together with herself.

“Folks do not speak about this and it actually made me really feel higher after I came upon about it,” the Oscar winner advised Folks in 2023. “It takes three years in your physique to completely recuperate from a being pregnant.” Hathaway mentioned she “didn’t snap again” after the beginning of her youthful son, Jack. “I need to be very, very clear about that. With my second, it took each minute of these three years. And it is cool. Let your physique be a physique.”