Ever since giving birth to her first child last year, Chrissy Teigen has struggled with both anxiety and postpartum depression, and in a essay for Glamour, Teigen opened up about her struggles since little Luna came into the world.
“Getting out of bed to get to set on time was painful. My lower back throbbed; my shoulders — even my wrists — hurt. I didn’t have an appetite,” she wrote. “I would go two days without a bite of food, and you know how big of a deal food is for me.”
“One thing that really got me was just how short I was with people,” she added. “I would be in my dressing room, sitting in a robe, getting hair and makeup done, and a crew member would knock on the door and ask: ‘Chrissy, do you know the lyrics to this song?’ And I would lose it.”
Finally, Teigen went to a doctor, unable to stand living the way she was, refusing to leave the house unless she absolutely had to.
“I looked at my doctor, and my eyes welled up because I was so tired of being in pain,” Teigen said. “Of sleeping on the couch. Of waking up throughout the night. Of throwing up. Of taking things out on the wrong people. Of not enjoying life. Of not seeing my friends. Of not having the energy to take my baby for a stroll.
“My doctor pulled out a book and started listing symptoms. And I was like, ‘Yep, yep, yep.’ I got my diagnosis: postpartum depression and anxiety.”
Now, Teigen is on the road to recovery and is taking antidepressants in addition to seeing a therapist.