Kylie Jenner opens up on experiencing postpartum depression after both of her pregnancies
"The risk is to miss all the most beautiful things of motherhood as well."
Kylie Jenner has shared her difficult experience with suffering postpartum depression after the births of her two children, five-year-old daughter, Stormi and one-year-old son, Aire.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair Italy, the 25-year-old reality star details her “painful” struggle with postpartum depression and sheds light on the mental health impact of childbirth.
“I have experienced (postpartum depression) twice,” Kylie tells the publication. “The first time was very difficult, but the second was more manageable.”
Kylie Jenner on suffering postpartum depression:”Stay inside that moment, even if it is painful.””
Asked to share her advice is for other women struggling with postpartum depression, the Kylie Cosmetics co-founder says, “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.”
She added: “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.”
Kylie also opened up about the joy of motherhood and being in the newborn bubble.
“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.”
Shortly before his first birthday on February 2, Kylie finally announced her son was called Aire.
In October 2022, Kylie spoke to her sister Kendall Jenner about her difficult postpartum journey during an epsiode of their reality-TV series, The Kardashians.
“I cried non-stop all day for the first three weeks,” Kylie told Kendall. “It’s just the baby blues, and then it kind of goes away. I had it with Stormi too.”
Kylie confessed that she would cry and “lay in bed and my head would hurt so much.”
Kylie then in a confessional reveals she believes she suffered ‘baby blues’ after having her son.
“I’m not a doctor but I read on Google, they call it baby blues when it doesn’t last past six weeks.”
“And after six weeks, I definitely started to feel better. But I definitely had a case of the blues.”
Postpartum or postnatal depression is a common, but debilitating condition that affects one in seven women in Australia following the birth of their baby.
The Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE) says unlike the baby blues which passes on its own, postnatal depression can be long-lasting, and affect your ability to cope with a new baby.
