Gwyneth Paltrow And Her Post-Partum Depression

Gwyneth Paltrow—who gave birth to her second child, Moses, about four years ago—is admitting her struggle with post-partum depression in her latest GOOP newsletter. “I expected to have another period of euphoria following his birth, much the way I had when my daughter was born two years earlier,” the 37-year-old actress writes. “Instead I was confronted with one of the darkest and most painfully debilitating chapters of my life.” Paltrow adds that, in time, she discovered why she was feeling that way: “For about five months I had what I can see in hindsight as postnatal depression.” Bryce Dallas Howard, the star of New Moon, reveals a similar struggle. “I definitely felt I was a rotten mother—not a bad one, a rotten one,” Howard says in the newsletter. “Because the truth was, every time I looked at my son, I wanted to disappear.”