Chrissy Teigen Wrote A Moving Essay About Having Postpartum Depression

Chrissy Teigen is Glamour magazine’s April cover girl, and she’s taking the opportunity to open up about an important topic: postpartum depression. In an essay, Teigen wrote that no one had ever told her, “I have postpartum depression.” Because of this lack of conversation, she never expected to experience it after welcoming her daughter Luna with husband John Legend last April. After months of pain, though, she finally got her diagnosis. Teigen opened up about her “wonderful, energetic pregnancy” and the way the team at “Lip Sync Battle,” the celeb-filled show that she hosts, helped her and Luna by adding a nursery to her dressing room, lowering the noise and giving Teigen plenty of pump breaks. She has “a great life” with help from her husband, mother and a nanny, which kept Teigen from talking about how she really felt. “I also just didn’t think it could happen to me,” she wrote. “I have a great life. I have all the help I could need: John, my mother (who lives with us), a nanny. But postpartum does not discriminate. I couldn’t control it.” Teigen detailed her bouts of “spontaneous crying” and explained how her “bones hurt to the core.” She slept on the couch often and frequently felt nauseated. It wasn’t until she went in for a physical that she found out what was causing her pain. I looked at my doctor, and my eyes welled up because I was so ti...
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