Reese Witherspoon Reflects On Postpartum Depression — And Why She'll Never Let Emotions Be 'Taboo'
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The star opened up about hormones, unsolicited opinions and how she got help in a new profile for Harper's Bazaar UK.
Reese Witherspoon believes in being brutally honest when it comes to mental health.
The actor and producer opened up about her postpartum depression and anxiety in an intimate profile for Harper’s Bazaar UK published on Sunday, telling the magazine how those experiences taught her that you can’t “beat around the bush” when trying to untangle emotions.
Witherspoon remembered things getting “really bad” after the birth of her daughter, Ava Phillippe, in 1999 and how she silently struggled for longer than she should have.
“In the first six months, I was simultaneously happy and depressed,” she recalled. “I just cried all the time, I was up all night, I was exhausted. It was a hormone drop I didn’t expect, which I experienced right after birth and again when I stopped nursing six months later.”
Hormones were only one part of the equation for Witherspoon, who also said she felt smothered by all the judgments young mothers face.
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