Reese Witherspoon is opening up about her postpartum journey as a young mom after welcoming her daughter, Ava Phillippe.
“It was really bad,” Witherspoon, 49, said of her struggle with depression in a Harper’s Bazaar profile published Sunday, November 2. “In the first six months, I was simultaneously happy and depressed. I just cried all the time, I was up all night, I was exhausted. It was a hormone drop I didn’t expect, which I experienced right after birth and again when I stopped nursing six months later.”
The actress continued, “Everyone has an opinion. It’s hard being a young mom and hav
                                    
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