Brooke Shields talks about postpartum depression
As she received an advocacy award from the Hope for Depression Foundation in Manhattan on Monday Brooke Shields spoke about her own very sad experience with postpartum depression.
She said, “We think and we feel that we should just be able to handle it on our own I’ve always been strong enough to get through every single difficult situation in my life. I grew up in an addictive household. My mother [Teri] had acute alcoholism. It’s in my blood. I was never going to be the one to succumb to it.”
Brooke, mom to Rowan, 7, and Grier, 3, explained that she suffered from the disease after a miscarriage and 7 IVF attempts before Grier came along.
She revealed, “I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn’t look at her. I couldn’t hold her and I couldn’t sing to her and I couldn’t smile at her … All I wanted to do was disappear and die.”
Luckily, Brooke got the help she needed to understand what she was going through and to get past it. She’s an incredible advocate!
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