Chrissy Teigen's Advice for Postpartum Depression
After opening up about her experience with postpartum depression after giving birth to her daughter Luna in a beautiful essay for Glamour last month, Chrissy Teigen is now opening up about finding the "light on the other side."
"When I was in the midst of everything, I could never imagine myself on the other side of it," she said in a recent interview with Refinery29. "Now, I'm able to look at September, October, November, December, and shake my head at how dark and crazy of a period it was. Unfortunately, you can only really do that when you're out of it. There's no other way to explain it. And there's no better feeling than being out of it"
The model went on to explain that while she's not completely out of the woods yet, she's finally reached a point where she's feeling like herself again. She then offered some words of encouragement to other moms who also might be battling with postpartum depression, reminding them that the process of getting through it is by no means an easy one.
"Of course, you have your good and bad days," she said. "I just had a bad day a couple days ago. But the bad days do not outweigh the good days anymore. Just when you think it's really really bad, it's going to get better. So hopefully, if you're going through something tough you can find some peace in knowing that."
Because she's been doing better lately, Chrissy also revealed that she's recently started working on her second cookbook again, a project she'd put on hold due to her postpartum depression.
"I just started working on the cookbook again yesterday," she told Refinery29. "As I talked about in my essay, I was going through a really dark time, so I had started the cookbook, and then I had to completely put it on pause, because it was a lot for me."
"So as of yesterday, I started doing really great, and I really got back into the mode of cooking," she continued. "I've been emailing my editor and co-editor non-stop for the past two days making these recipes and brainstorming and I'm having so much fun. I'm really starting to feel like myself again. I'm going to try to knock out a bunch of recipes, go on tour with John and Luna, live on this tour bus, and then come back, do a few more recipes, shoot the cookbook, and then have it out for everybody by the beginning of next year."
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