{"id":258813,"date":"2025-10-29T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258813\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:07:16","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-says-she-found-ways-to-handle-postpartum-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/258813\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence Says She Found Ways to Handle Postpartum Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> says she struggled with postpartum anxiety after giving birth to her second child.<\/p>\n

“I just thought every time he was sleeping he was dead,” Lawrence told The New Yorker<\/a> on Monday. “I thought he cried because he didn’t like his life, or me, or his family. I thought I was doing everything wrong, and that I would ruin my children.”<\/p>\n

The “Hunger Games<\/a>” star has two sons with her husband, Cooke Maroney. She welcomed her first child in 2022 and her second one earlier this year.<\/p>\n

She described a moment when she found herself crying while asking ChatGPT<\/a> for breastfeeding advice.<\/p>\n

“You’re doing the most amazing thing for your baby,” Lawrence said, recalling the AI chatbot’s words. “You’re such a loving mother.”<\/p>\n

She said that hearing that from a bot left her doubting whether anyone else who said the same thing to her really meant it.<\/p>\n

Lawrence also said she took Zurzuvae, an oral medication approved by the FDA<\/a> in 2023 for postpartum depression, and credited it with easing her symptoms.<\/p>\n

The actor also reflected on how her two postpartum experiences differed.<\/p>\n

“I had a worse postpartum with my second, but the first time the only thing I was at war with was the rest of the world,” Lawrence said.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a press conference for the premiere of her latest film, “Die, My Love,” at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Lawrence said her postpartum experiences felt “extremely isolating.”<\/p>\n

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“The truth is extreme anxiety, and extreme depression, is isolating no matter where you are. You feel like an alien,” Lawrence said.<\/p>\n

At the same conference, Lawrence also said that having kids changed her “creatively.”<\/a> <\/p>\n

“I didn’t know that I could feel so much, and my job has a lot to do with emotion. It’s almost like feeling a blister or something \u2014 like, so sensitive,” Lawrence said.<\/p>\n

A representative for Lawrence did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.<\/p>\n

Postpartum anxiety<\/a> occurs when normal worries become overwhelming and start disrupting daily life. It is most commonly diagnosed within six months after birth, Mayra Mendez, a psychotherapist at Providence Saint John’s Child and Family Development Center in Santa Monica, told Business Insider in 2020.<\/p>\n

Small behavioral changes, like getting more sleep and practicing mindfulness, can help keep the anxiety under control, Mendez said.<\/p>\n

Unlike postpartum depression, which is characterized by sadness, irritability, and fatigue, postpartum anxiety manifests as a form of constant worry, such as hypervigilance and an overwhelming sense of fear or dread, per the National University Health System Singapore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence says she struggled with postpartum anxiety after giving birth to her second child. “I just thought…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,259,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-258813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}