Kylie Jenner revealed that she was crying for three weeks straight after suffering post-partum depression following the birth of her second child.
Jenner, 25, first became a mother to a baby girl, Stormi, with rapper Travis Scott in 2018. Initially, she kept her pregnancy a secret, officially announcing her daughter's birth via Instagram. Then, while her second pregnancy with her son Aire was not a secret, his name was - with Jenner not releasing his name until January 2023, when Aire was a year old.
The 25-year-old opened up about both pregnancies to Vanity Fair Italy as she appeared on the cover of the outlet's March 2023 issue.
In the interview, she explains that, while her second pregnancy was "more manageable" than her first, she suffered from "painful" post-partum depression.
Jenner was asked about her pregnancies and the more problematic or difficult sides to motherhood, as well as what advice she would give to mothers experiencing the same thing. In response, she stated: "I have experienced it. Twice. The first time was very difficult, the second was more manageable. I would tell those women not to overthink things and to live all the emotions of that moment to the fullest. Stay inside that moment, even if it is painful.
"I know, in those moments you think that it will never pass, that your body will never be the same as before, that you will never be the same. That's not true: the hormones, the emotions at that stage are much, much more powerful and bigger than you. My advice is to live through that transition, without fear of the aftermath. The risk is to miss all the most beautiful things of motherhood as well," she continued.
She was also asked what excited her most about becoming a mom, at which point the makeup mogul answered: "Finding myself in the hospital alone with a new and unknown creature in my arms. It's such a unique and special situation and it's all about building with these little beings that you're learning about. There is another magical moment, though: when you bring your children home. It is perhaps the most beautiful moment."
Jenner isn't alone, however, as multiple other celebrities have revealed that they'd also suffered post-partum depression following the births of their children as well.
Singer Alanis Morrisette told Self in a 2019 interview that she fought with depression twice, saying: "For me I would just wake up and feel like I was covered in tar and it wasn't the first time I'd experienced depression so I just thought 'Oh, well, this feels familiar, I’m depressed, I think.' And then simultaneously, my personal history of depression where it was so normalized for me to be in the quicksand, as I call it, or in the tar. It does feel like tar, like everything feels heavy."
Chrissy Teigen told Glamour she became depressed following the birth of her daughter in 2016, writing in a 2017 essay: "I had everything I needed to be happy. And yet, for much of the last year, I felt unhappy [...] I was so tired of being in pain. 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."