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

Ask anybody who has given start 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 when you’re the one that was pregnant—are innumerable. Not solely has your loved ones unit expanded, you’re now liable for a tiny particular person whereas juggling your personal 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 mother and father 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 snug with honesty and vulnerability round psychological and bodily well being, extra high-profile mother and father 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, nevertheless it’s to the purpose the place it is actually unhealthy, and it is exhausting 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 completely different particular person” and didn’t acknowledge herself. 

“Earlier than I had a toddler and I might hear individuals speak about postpartum, it might 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 virtually feels such as you’re swimming on this ocean that is like the largest waves you have ever felt and also you’re making an attempt to not drown. And also you’re making an attempt to return up for air.”

Chrissy Teigen

Teigen skilled postpartum despair after the start 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 infrequently would I muster up the vitality to make it upstairs for mattress. John would sleep on the sofa with me, typically 4 nights in a row,” Teigen continued. “I began protecting robes and comfortable garments within the pantry so I wouldn’t should go upstairs when John went to work. There was lots 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 youngsters, Stormi and Aire. 

“The primary time was very troublesome, the second was extra manageable,” Jenner informed 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 suppose that it’s going to by no means move, 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 informed British Vogue that she handled postpartum despair for a few 12 months after every start. “It hit me in another way each instances,” she shared. “Most likely with my son it was main child blues, so I used to be simply so emotional over issues that I in all probability wouldn’t be that emotional about.”

Olivia Munn

The star mentioned she “wasn’t ready” for postpartum nervousness after the start 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 almost a 12 months, explaining that she was “in such a tunnel of hysteria and darkness” and had bother contemplating treatment. The nervousness ultimately 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 12 months, however I don’t suppose 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 count on it to occur in waves, both,” she mentioned in summer time 2024. “I believed it might simply occur and develop again, nevertheless it went this spot, then this spot… at that time you’re identical to, ‘All proper, sufficient is sufficient!’” Nonetheless, she tried to seek out the positives in her state of affairs—in spite of everything, postpartum hair loss is an issue many mother and father face after giving start. “It made me get a bit extra artistic and intelligent with my hairstyles.”

Blake Energetic

Energetic, who has 4 youngsters with husband Ryan Reynolds, opened up about feeling discouraged that she couldn’t match into garments for high-profile appearances shortly after giving start 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 might she discover something off the rack that made her really feel good.

“It doesn’t ship an incredible message to girls 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 12 months later wanting again,” Energetic 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 fantastic miracle. However as an alternative of feeling proud, I felt insecure. Just because I didn’t match into garments. How foolish is that on reflection.”

Maren Morris

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

“I feel lots of identification crises occurred there,” Morris mentioned on an episode of Sunday At this time. “Not simply being a brand new mother or father and a brand new mom and coping with postpartum despair for the primary time, and reeling from that…But additionally simply figuring out 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 informed Rolling Stone of her resolution. “I used to be actually, actually scared. Like, rattling, I am letting all people down. I am letting my household down. I am letting all people that works for me down.”

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

After the start 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 completely different postpartum experiences, saying it diverse from little one to little one.  “One child I had type of delicate 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 pondering straight in any respect,” Witherspoon defined. “After which I had one child the place I had no postpartum in any respect.”

After the start 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 previous after I had my first child and no one defined to me that if you wean a child, your hormones go into the bathroom. I felt extra depressed than I might ever felt in my complete life. It was scary.”

Anne Hathaway

Hathaway, who’s mother to 2 sons, needs different mother and father to know that the post-baby interval is an extended journey, and regardless of what you might 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 mother and father—together with herself.

“Individuals do not speak about this and it actually made me really feel higher after I discovered about it,” the Oscar winner informed Individuals in 2023. “It takes three years on your physique to completely get better from a being pregnant.” Hathaway mentioned she “didn’t snap again” after the start of her youthful son, Jack. “I wish 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.”