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Gwyneth Paltrow Had Post-Partum Depression
Gwyneth Paltrow reveals in the May issue of Vogue that she battled post-partum depression after welcoming her second child, son Moses, in 2006.
“I didn’t know I had it until after it was over,” the actress, 35, says. “I just didn’t know what was wrong with me.”
She suspects her depression stemmed from scaling back on her usual pre-baby treatments like acupuncture.
“I felt really out of my body,” Paltrow says after giving birth. “I felt really disconnected. I felt really down … I felt pessimistic.”
Paltrow also scaled her career back to focus on mommyhood. (Daughter Apple turns 4 in May; son Moses is 2. Click here to see how Paltrow and other stars bundled up their kids for winter.)
The actress — who returns to the big screen in May’s Iron Man — has found her comfort level tackling both, her mother Blythe Danner recently told Usmagazine.com.
“She didn’t set out to be a movie star — she set out to be a wonderful actress,” Danner said.
“But motherhood is very important to her, as it was to me, and I think she’s finding balance.”
Danner also dismissed rumors that Paltrow’s 4-year marriage to Coldplay crooner Chris Martin is on the rocks.
“Good god, it’s just so tragic that people have to make up stuff,” she told Us. “I’ve never seen two happier parents — or people — so I don’t get it.”
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By: steph
Up to 70% of women experience ‘the baby blues’ following childbirth. More serious depression occurs in 10-20%. I remember feeling very ‘weepy’ for several weeks after my daughter was born and also rather embarrassed about it. Whilst there is much focus on the physical health of mother and child there appears to be a dearth of appropriate support for women to process their emotions following childbirth. Jenny Hyatt, Founder, bigwhitewall.com
April 17th, 2008 at 1:44 am