{"id":2128591,"date":"2025-11-01T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2128591"},"modified":"2025-11-01T09:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T09:04:59","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-details-her-battle-with-postpartum-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennifer-lawrence-details-her-battle-with-postpartum-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence Details Her Battle With Postpartum Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jennifer Lawrence<\/strong><\/a> got real about motherhood and her struggles with postpartum depression.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving kids is sacrificial. It\u2019s gratifying and it\u2019s amazing and rewarding, but it\u2019s not not sacrificial,\u201d the actress said in the Saturday, November 1, episode of \u201cThe Interview\u201d podcast from The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI\u2019d never had to say no to something before that I really wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence, 35, confessed that it felt \u201cvain and selfish\u201d to want to keep her career going while her family was at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy kids and my family are more important, obviously, but they feel like an equal part of me,\u201d she continued. \u201cI would not be complete if I couldn\u2019t make movies. I just wouldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence tied the knot with husband Cooke Maroney<\/strong><\/a> in October 2019. The couple welcomed son Cy in February 2022. They expanded their family with their second baby earlier this year. Lawrence and Maroney have not publicly shared any details about their newborn.<\/p>\n

After becoming a mother for the first time, Lawrence thought \u201cbeing an actress is the perfect job for being a hands-on mom.\u201d She admitted it wasn\u2019t as easy as she expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m reckoning with, \u2018How much is it OK to love this and not want to give it up?\u2019\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

However, with her second child, Lawrence admitted she struggled with \u201canxiety\u201d and looked for an \u201cescape\u201d with \u201cstories and books.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI really lost myself in ideas,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s always been how I digest feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Lawrence gave birth to Cy, Martin Scorsese<\/strong> reached out, asking her to play Grace in Die My Love<\/em><\/a> after reading the Ariana Harwicz novel in his book club. Die My Love follows the journey of a young mother struggling with postpartum depression while her husband enters psychosis. Lawrence shared that Scorsese, 82, recommended the book to her, which she picked up right away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had just had my first baby, so it was really overwhelming. I read it in one sitting,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI was actually in a really good place in my postpartum journey. I didn\u2019t struggle in the kind of classic postpartum way. I bonded right away with my son, and so I think because of that I was able to allow my mind to go to those darker places. If I had been in a dark place and read it, I would have been too afraid of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence was ultimately cast in Die My Love<\/em> opposite Robert Pattinson<\/strong>. During filming, the Hunger Games<\/em> actress was pregnant with her second baby<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another thing that morphed for me and never really felt like one thing. I was pregnant [with my second] when I was filming this,\u201d she said. \u201cThere were certain realities that I just couldn\u2019t look at. I spoke to a postpartum specialist who told me that a No. 1 cause of death in mothers in the first year is suicide. And that obviously went into our thinking about the ending, the forest. What is the forest? What is the fire? Do they find their way back to each other? What does all of it mean? I think I saw the forest as more of a cleansing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tSharing their stories. Reese Witherspoon, Behati Prinsloo and more celebrity moms have spoken openly about their postpartum depression. Witherspoon had \u201ca different experience\u201d after each of her children\u2019s births, she told Jameela Jamil in April 2020 on her \u201cI Weigh\u201d podcast. \u201c[With] one kid, I had kind of mild postpartum, and [with] one kid, I [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While Lawrence had a positive postpartum experience with her firstborn, it was completely different with her second.<\/p>\n

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