#wall-e!Lister

[iiep-wop]

More random Lore stuff for the Wall-E AU :D

Lister/ WALL-E lore

-This is what the inside of Lister's storage container house thing is supposed to be laid out like, the dimensions are probably not accurate at all to what size it would be but yk

Also it's supposed to be decorated very similarly to Wall E's actual home, hence the picture from the film for reference

It's supposed to be small and kinda cramped but I don't think it comes across like that in my sketch lolll

-To clear up any ambiguity, Lister was dating Kochanski before everything happened

-The storage container already sort of doubled up into a moving house type thing (because it's on wheel treadmill type things (I think that's what those are called)) in order to make it easier to cover a larger area without people trekking back to the workers centre every evening

-Kochanski, Petersen and the others helped Lister decorate and most of the furniture is salvaged

Rimmer/EVE lore

-an EVE isn't supposed to have a visor like Rimmer does

-there is supposed to be more than one EVE

-EVE's have been to earth before but Rimmer specifically hasn't ever been

-after a set period of time, an EVE can leave and enter the pod at will

Cat, Kryten and Holly lore when we finally meet them!!! (Next couple of chapters and we should have finally met them all)

-Cat will be the last character of the original ones to be introduced btw

[red-wop]

Guys hear me out, Rimster hallmark film AU

Rimmer's the cold big city guy who is made to go to a countryside village for the winter season and Lister's the charming local who wears plaid and teaches him the true meaning of love and the spirit of christmas or something like that, idk I don't watch these films much 💀

[nutoka]

If I was good at writing fanfiction I would be believe I would come up with decent AUs to write about. The idea is there but my execution of it would be terrible honestly. (The person writing the Wall-E AU is an absolute genius)

One idea I have in mind is a Corpse Bride AU. A retelling of the story but with Red Dwarf characters basically. This is based on the sole fact that Rimmer is dead. That’s it. The synopsis will be: Lister accidentally marrying Rimmer when he should be marrying Kochanski.

Rimmer may not like the marriage either but one should obey the protocol (that would be his excuse). I think the Lord that replaces Lister in marrying Kochanski and that killed Rimmer should be Todhunter (for the lack of other options). The Cat should be the singing skeleton telling Rimmer’s tale and Kryten should either be the cab driver or Elder Goodnick (the very old skeleton).

I’m not a good writer so I’ll be crap at trying to make this but I just wanted to share just in case cus this fandom is full of wonderful writers.

[thegeminisage]

star trek update time! I AM BEHIND. tuesday we watched voy's "message in a bottle" and ds9's "who mourns for morn?" thursday we did ds9's "far beyond the stars" and last night we did voy's "hunters" and ds9's "one little ship."

message in a bottle (voy):

THIS ONE WAS SO EXCITING.............

i know vaguely how voyager ends because i have an internet connection but im still like omg omg omg theyre MAKING CONTACT WITH EARTH omg omg

like the whole episode i was so sure something would happen and they would get close but make no progress bc thats been the name of the game so far but THEY DID IT!!!

the emh was great here too. it was fun to see him next to someone who is basically who he used to be. that said, i didn't love who they cast for the other emh...i think it would have been more fun if it had been another zimmerman look alike or. better yet, julian bashir. julian bashir in this episode would have made it PERFECT

seven of nine shocking that guy was amazing. everyone say thank you to seven of nine for finding the communications relay

i get where b'elanna is coming from w seven but like............b'elanna is easily the rudest person on this ship. and i dont hold that against her i know where she is coming from but its hard to see her go damn seven youre rude when she is always snapping at everyone lskdjfgh

that said: Girl Fight

anyway "60k lightyears feels a little closer today" i welled up fr. great job everyone

who mourns for morn? (ds9):

i think i owuld have liked this episode a lot better if it didn't come so close to the magnificent ferengi episode...it's like very typical quark shenanigans and even though he IS my best friend now i don't think this was his best episode. he spent this whole episode just like...trying to do shenanigans and get money which is fine but it's all v surface level stuff. season 3 esque, if you will. the other episode had way more substance to it

that said, i love morn as a like bit character and i love that we found out increasingly improbable and fantastic things about him - cat burglar is almost as good as secret prince

even better when he got back and quark was like DON'T SAY A WORD after we've been talking about how talkative he is all episode and we have not heard him utter a single word in six seasons. incredible

i also like the two aliens who talked really slowly. very fun on-screen presence.

odo giving quark shit in this episode was also pretty good. like he was doing absolutely nothing illegal and odo literally didn't have anything better to do than harass him. E QUARK!

far beyond the stars (ds9):

this episode.

it is such a shame that avery brooks never did anything major outside of ds9. like, a handful of made for tv movies and that's IT?? ik i keep saying this but the man should have been an a-lister. holy fuck. he is SO talented it's insane

i was kinda hoping this guy was sisko's ancestor - that somehow for some reason the prophets were torturing him with visions too? but the fourth wall thing was really good too. and it also freaked me out i love a good fourth wall break <3

outside of the plot of this episode being good, the acting from everybody was phenomenal, but again, ESPECIALLY avery brooks...why can't tng and voyager holodeck episodes be like this?? jesus christ. like this had almost nothing at all to do with ds9 and i still loved it

aside from that, what a treat to see everybody out oft he makeup. some people i recognized ONLY by their voices. we had to pause and rewind several times to focus on what they were actually saying because we were so shocked at how different they looked, and in odo's case, sounded!

anyway, 10/10 episodes. bonus points for the fake jadzia going "oh my gawd she's got a wooorm in her belly" and giggling in disgusted delight <3

hunters (voy):

NEWS FROM HOME THIS IS SO EXCITING!!!!!!!! i SAID everybody say THANK YOU to seven of nine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i was so sure harry wasnt gonna get a letter i was shocked when it finally did come in

tom not getting his letter but knowing one was sent vs b'elanna having no one who loves her enough to send a letter but still learning all her friends are dead...i was glad she gave him a reality check but at the same time...they do kind of work. both of them left behind such shit situations that their lives actually IMPROVED once they got to the delta quadrant and that is Something. semi-reluctantly, i now get it

TUVOK'S A GRANDFATHER......................we've been speculating about his babies and potential grandbabies for 3.5 seasons and now we finally have some ANSWERS!!!!! this is obviously his first grandson but i would still love to know how old the rest of his kids are...i doubt theyre like Babies but young adults? older teens? no one tell me i want to find out on my own

thuh-rilled that janeway finally got dumped by mark. absolutely baffled as to why she and chakotay talked it over like that if they weren't gonna be endgame...when tf did they decide to get him with seven instead? like i don't object because then i don't have to pick between jc and j7 i guess but what the fuck?? it makes no sense. i'm not really Seeing jc7 in my mind palace yet but i'm trying

one little ship (ds9):

this one was so funny. spend an entire episode struck by the lighting bolt from mario kart

o'brien being like saauuur preoccupied with his size also...hilarious. he wanted to kill julian every time he made a pun. don't worry o'brien your wife will understand

that said, really good when julian talked him through those repairs. i think it's easy to forget how fucking smart o'brien is but julian literally did not forget. he solved problems.

"fry every cell in my tiny body" or whatever tf julian said. his tiny, tiny body

when worf was worried about his wife but she came to save him but she was 1cm tall

sisko delaying the repairs was really good...i feel like he meets a jem'hadar and the first thing he tries to do is make them feel a sense of personhood so they can get angry about the injustice of their situation. like, it shows that he has empathy but it's also an incredibly effective tactic - people like as respect sisko as a captain and as someone who fights fairly, honorably, and effectively in battle, so they all hold his opinion in high regard - and the sitch with the jem'hadar is SO skeevy that like of Course they are mad about it. so he can pretty easily manipulate them if he plays his cards right which is? fun and sexy

bonus for kira becoming hysterical at the idea of o'brien and the others becoming that tiny. i think this is when he started to get insecure

edit: i did forget to say initially i really hated the use of "alphas" in this episode. it was very bad and i did not enjoy it any time they said it.

TONIGHT: voy's "prey" and ds9's "honor among thieves."

[whatdoesshedotothem]

1836 Oct[obe]r Thurs[day] 27

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12 40/..

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No kiss fine morn[in]g – d[o]wnst[ai]rs at 8 3/4 – Ch[arle]s How[ar]th and W[illia]m Keigh[le]y h[a]d been wait[in]g for me 20 min[ute]s –

set the form[e]r w[i]th his son Ja[me]s to hang the gate at the top corn[e]r of Conery Ing and took W[illia]m K- [Keighley] to cut

off a few brok[e]n branches of an oak at the bot[tom] of Pearson Ing (n[ea]r the larch tree) and then w[e]nt

w[i]th h[i]m to Spa h[ou]se to shew h[i]m A-‘s [Ann] four larches to be cut d[o]wn -he will cut them d[o]wn

on Mon[day] – ho[me] at 9 55/.. Mr. Husb[an]d and Dobson (the stone merch[an]t) wait[in]g for me - told H- [Husband]

I w[oul]d ha[ve] a warm bath in the pres[en]t kitchen - alter the stab[le]s and turn the pres[en]t front stab[le]

int[o] a manserv[an]t’s bedr[oo]m – w[oul]d n[o]t ha[ve] the gr[ea]t oak King posts squar[e]d or alt[ere]d to ma[ke] mo[re]

r[oo]m at the end of the gall[er]y lead[in]g the red r[oo]m and north chamb[e]r - to be cas[e]d ov[e]r in their pres[en]t shape -

Dobson want[e]d to kno[w] the date of his last bill for insides (st[one] for the Long goit) –

Look[e]d ov[e]r my acc[oun]ts and ga[ve] him the informat[io]n he want[e]d – br[eak]f[a]st at 10 3/4 - Mrs. and

Miss Briggs call[e]d at 11 – wait[e]d 10 min[ute]s in the h[ou]sekeep[e]r’s r[oo]m till we h[a]d br[eak]f[a]st[e]d –

the 1st ti[me] of their com[in]g here s[in]ce they left us - we were ver[y] civ[i]l to them and I st[ai]d w[i]th

them till n[ea]r 12 - they remain[e]d so[me] ti[me] long[e]r w[i]th A- [Ann] - out fr[om] a lit[tle] bef[ore] 12 (ab[ou]t)

till 1, then n[ea]r an h[ou]r w[i]th A- [Ann] then out ag[ai]n till ca[me] in at 5 50/.. at the meer-drift and in the gard[e]n and ab[ou]t – dress[e]d –

wr[ote] 1 3/4 p[ages] to ‘Mrs. Lawton, Lawton hall, Lawton, Cheshire’ and s[e]nt it tonight – we

shall be delight[e]d to see h[e]r on the 2[n]d or 3[r]d of next m[on]th i.e. next Wed[nesday] or Thurs[day]

hope she will n[o]t disap[poin]t us if she can help it - she h[a]d best ta[ke] her pl[a]ce

in the mail to Bradford, - tell the guard to blow his horn, and let her alight at

the Lodge - will prepare her old fr[ien]d Matty Pollard for her arriv[a]l and I mys[elf] will

ta[ke] ca[re] she (M- [Mariana]) does n[o]t lose hers[elf] bet[ween] the Lodge and the h[ou]se – wr[ote] no[te] to ‘The Rev[eren]d Rob[er]t Wilkins[o]n Heath’

to ask h[i]m ‘to co[me] whenev[e]r m[o]st conven[ien]t to him bef[ore] Wed[nesday] (b[u]t n[o]t on Mon[day]) respect[in]g

the will of my late a[un]t - and wr[ote] no[te] to ‘Mr. Lister appraiser Halifax’ to ask him

to co[me] at 3 p.m. tomor[row] or Sat[urday] to val[ue] the wardrobe of my late a[un]t – seal[e]d and

direct[e]d all the ab[ov]e (let[ter] notes) at the din[ner] tab[le] and s[e]nt them off by Frank soon aft[e]r

7 – din[ner] at 6 35/.. – coff[ee] upst[ai]rs - A- [Ann] r[ea]d Fr[en]ch al[ou]d as us[ua]l – 1/2 asleep on the sofa

till 10 - then wr[ote] all the ab[ov]e of today - Booth here this morn[in]g - at Hilltop in the

aft[ernoo]n – settl[e]d - Mr. Carter h[a]s no object[io]n to the new barn and h[ou]se being in a line w[i]th his

moth[e]r’s cot[tage] and so it is to be - 2 masons (Amos and Jos[e]ph Sharpe) at the west tow[e]r –

2 d[itt]o flagg[in]g the new court – Rob[er]t Mann + 4 low[erin]g and level[in]g in front of the h[ou]se and g[o]t

the hall-cellar-drain dry out so as to drain off all the wat[e]r (6in. deep) out of the cellar –

Rob[er]t Schof[iel]d and his man Joseph help[in]g the masons at the west tow[e]r – pull[in]g d[o]wn the gard[e]n terr[a]ce

wall and dress[in]g the st[one] (Jos[e]ph w[a]s help[in]g the gard[ene]r in the morn[in]g) - the gard[ene]r and John Booth and Ch[arl]es

and Ja[me]s How[ar]th stubb[in]g up the old apple-trees in the orch[ar]d and clear[in]g the gr[ou]nd - Frank cart[in]g

st[one] for the dry arching 2 l[oa]ds rough throughs fr[om] Hipp[erholme] quarry and the rest st[one] fr[om] the gard[e]n wall –

Ch[arle]s and Ja[me]s H- [Howarth] at Hilltop all yest[erday] and Tues[day] aft[ernoo]n pull[in]g d[o]wn the old cot[tage]s and barn – Ingh[a]m + 2

men and a boy wall[in]g east parapet wall along the outside arch - 2 York joiners in the hall and 2

Hilltop cot[age]s and barn

pull[e]d d[ow]n

251

1836

Oct[obe]r

jobb[in]g as us[ua]l - the gallery all tak[e]n d[o]wn yest[erday] to the red r[oo]m and n[or]th chamb[e]r and no gett[in]g int[o] eith[e]r

b[u]t by a ladd[e]r int[o] the lit[tle] sq[uare] lobby open[in]g int[o] them - a new beam put up today for the fut[ure]

gall[er]y floor - Mark Hepw[or]th and the N[orth]g[a]te carts cart[in]g soil in front of the h[ou]se topp[i]ng up the gr[ea]t

embankm[en]t – ver[y] fine day F[ahrenheit] 32° now at 10 50/.. p.m. the 1st ti[me] this seas[o]n of being at the freez[in]g point –

my no[te]s tonight writ[ten] in the 1st pers[o]n - will n[o]t wr[it]e Miss L- [Lister] mean[in]g to ta[ke] the brevet

immed[iatel]y – No[te] fr[om] Mr. Wilkins[o]n to say comp[limen]ts and he will co[me] at 11 a.m. on Sat[urday] Mr. List[e]r

will try to co[me] tomor[row]

[wankerwatch]

Lords Vote

On: Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL]

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts moved an amendment, after clause 4, to insert the new clause Restrictions on powers to exclude members. The House divided:

Ayes: 206 (41.3% Lab, 25.7% LD, 18.9% XB, 9.2% Con, 2.4% , 1.0% UUP, 0.5% Green, 0.5% Bshp, 0.5% DUP) Noes: 45 (75.6% Con, 8.9% , 8.9% DUP, 4.4% XB, 2.2% Lab) Absent: ~594

Likely Referenced Bill: Royal Albert Hall Bill [HL]

Description: A Bill to amend certain provisions of the Royal Albert Hall Act 1966 relating to the annual contribution payable by the Members of the Corporation towards the general purposes of the Royal Albert Hall; to make further provision regarding the exclusion of the Members from the hall; and to make provision for the sale of further seats and the exercise of certain rights in respect of Grand Tier boxes located on the first tier of the hall.

Originating house: Lords Current house: Lords Bill Stage: 3rd reading

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Labour (85 votes)

Alli, L. Anderson of Swansea, L. Armstrong of Hill Top, B. Ashton of Upholland, B. Bach, L. Barber of Ainsdale, L. Bassam of Brighton, L. Beamish, L. Beckett, B. Blackstone, B. Blunkett, L. Boateng, L. Bradley, L. Brown of Silvertown, B. Browne of Ladyton, L. Chakrabarti, B. Chandos, V. Clark of Windermere, L. Curran, B. Davies of Brixton, L. Donaghy, B. Donoughue, L. Eatwell, L. Evans of Sealand, L. Faulkner of Worcester, L. Gale, B. Giddens, L. Golding, B. Goudie, B. Grantchester, L. Griffin of Princethorpe, B. Grocott, L. Hain, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Hanworth, V. Harris of Haringey, L. Hayter of Kentish Town, B. Hazarika, B. Healy of Primrose Hill, B. Hollick, L. Howarth of Newport, L. Jones of Penybont, L. Jones, L. Jordan, L. Keeley, B. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of The Shaws, B. Kingsmill, B. Kinnock, L. Lawrence of Clarendon, B. Lennie, L. Liddle, L. Lister of Burtersett, B. Mann, L. McConnell of Glenscorrodale, L. McIntosh of Hudnall, B. McNicol of West Kilbride, L. Monks, L. Moraes, L. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Morris of Yardley, B. Murphy of Torfaen, L. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Parekh, L. Pitkeathley, B. Prosser, B. Ramsey of Wall Heath, B. Rebuck, B. Ritchie of Downpatrick, B. Robertson of Port Ellen, L. Rook, L. Shamash, L. Sikka, L. Spellar, L. Stansgate, V. Stevenson of Balmacara, L. Thornton, B. Tunnicliffe, L. Turnberg, L. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watts, L. Wilcox of Newport, B. Wilson of Sedgefield, L. Young of Norwood Green, L. Young of Old Scone, B.

Liberal Democrat (53 votes)

Addington, L. Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville, B. Barker, B. Beith, L. Bowles of Berkhamsted, B. Bradshaw, L. Bruce of Bennachie, L. Burnett, L. Dholakia, L. Doocey, B. Featherstone, B. Foster of Bath, L. Fox, L. Garden of Frognal, B. Goddard of Stockport, L. Grender, B. Hamwee, B. Harris of Richmond, B. Humphreys, B. Hussein-Ece, B. Janke, B. Kramer, B. Lee of Trafford, L. Ludford, B. Newby, L. Northover, B. Oates, L. Palmer of Childs Hill, L. Pidgeon, B. Pinnock, B. Purvis of Tweed, L. Redesdale, L. Rennard, L. Scott of Needham Market, B. Scriven, L. Sharkey, L. Sheehan, B. Shipley, L. Stoneham of Droxford, L. Storey, L. Strasburger, L. Suttie, B. Taylor of Goss Moor, L. Teverson, L. Thomas of Gresford, L. Thomas of Winchester, B. Thornhill, B. Thurso, V. Tope, L. Tyler of Enfield, B. Wallace of Saltaire, L. Walmsley, B. Willis of Knaresborough, L.

Crossbench (39 votes)

Alton of Liverpool, L. Batters, B. Best, L. Burns, L. Cameron of Dillington, L. Carlile of Berriew, L. Carrington, L. Cork and Orrery, E. Cromwell, L. Curry of Kirkharle, L. Etherton, L. Falkner of Margravine, B. Finlay of Llandaff, B. Fowler, L. Freeman of Steventon, B. Freyberg, L. Hale of Richmond, B. Hannay of Chiswick, L. Hayman, B. Hogan-Howe, L. Hope of Craighead, L. Kerr of Kinlochard, L. Kilclooney, L. Kinnoull, E. Londesborough, L. Lytton, E. Meston, L. O'Loan, B. O'Neill of Bengarve, B. Pannick, L. Patel, L. Phillips of Worth Matravers, L. Prashar, B. Russell of Liverpool, L. Sentamu, L. Somerset, D. Trees, L. Wheatcroft, B. de Clifford, L.

Conservative (19 votes)

Ahmad of Wimbledon, L. Anelay of St Johns, B. Balfe, L. Berridge, B. Blackwell, L. Dundee, E. Fraser of Craigmaddie, B. Fuller, L. Hamilton of Epsom, L. Hodgson of Abinger, B. Horam, L. Howard of Rising, L. Lansley, L. Lexden, L. Monckton of Dallington Forest, B. Nicholson of Winterbourne, B. Noakes, B. Norton of Louth, L. Stowell of Beeston, B.

Non-affiliated (5 votes)

Altmann, B. Faulks, L. Paddick, L. Prior of Brampton, L. Tyrie, L.

Ulster Unionist Party (2 votes)

Elliott of Ballinamallard, L. Rogan, L.

Green Party (1 vote)

Bennett of Manor Castle, B.

Bishops (1 vote)

Manchester, Bp.

Democratic Unionist Party (1 vote)

Weir of Ballyholme, L.

Noes

Conservative (34 votes)

Borwick, L. Brady of Altrincham, L. Buscombe, B. Carrington of Fulham, L. Coffey, B. Dobbs, L. Eccles, V. Evans of Rainow, L. Forsyth of Drumlean, L. Frost, L. Gascoigne, L. Hannan of Kingsclere, L. Holmes of Richmond, L. Jackson of Peterborough, L. Kirkhope of Harrogate, L. Lawlor, B. Leicester, E. Leigh of Hurley, L. Lilley, L. Mackinlay of Richborough, L. Magan of Castletown, L. Meyer, B. Mobarik, B. Mott, L. Moylan, L. Moynihan of Chelsea, L. Neville-Jones, B. Petitgas, L. Ranger of Northwood, L. Robathan, L. Strathcarron, L. Swire, L. Udny-Lister, L. Young of Cookham, L.

Non-affiliated (4 votes)

Foster of Aghadrumsee, B. Harrington of Watford, L. Hoey, B. Rosenfield, L.

Democratic Unionist Party (4 votes)

Browne of Belmont, L. Hay of Ballyore, L. McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, L. Morrow, L.

Crossbench (2 votes)

Aberdare, L. Richards of Herstmonceux, L.

Labour (1 vote)

Campbell-Savours, L.

[cleverhottubmiracle]

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It does for a moment, but then it makes everything worse.” She wishes someone had told her that PPD was not something she “should have to get over all by [herself],” and that it’s possible to give birth and not immediately feel an overwhelming sense of love. “It’s OK and not abnormal if [your baby] comes out and it’s a blob, and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is like a crazy little creation that I’m going to love when I get to know you.'” Celebrity Moms Who Battled Postpartum Depression Kylie Jenner Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images In an interview with Vanity Fair Italy published in Feb. 2023, Kylie Jenner opened up about experiencing postpartum depression with kids Stormi and Aire who she shares with ex Travis Scott. “I have experienced [postpartum depression]. Twice,” she said. “The first time was very difficult, the second was more manageable,” she went on, adding that her advice for moms is to “not to over-think 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,” Jenner continued. “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.” Sarah Michelle Gellar Image Credit: Griffin Lotz/Rolling Stone Sarah Michelle Gellar experienced postpartum depression after welcoming her firstborn, Charlotte. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer star — who shares Charlotte and son Rocky — with husband Freddie Prinze Jr., wrote about her experience in an Instagram post on May 9, 2017. “Having kids is wonderful, and life changing, and rarely what you’re prepared for,” she began, alongside a throwback photo of her and her baby girl. “I love my children more than anything in the world. But like a lot of women, I too struggled with postpartum depression after my first baby was born.” She went on, “I got help, and made it through, and every day since has been the best gift I could ever have asked for. To those of you going through this, know that you’re not alone and that it really does get better.” Sharna Burgess Image Credit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Fashion Island Sharna Burgess became a mom in June 2022 to Zane Walker Green with husband Brian Austin Green, and she experienced postpartum panic attacks and intrusive thoughts. “I had imagined the absolute worst-case scenario. And I felt myself having this panic attack, which I’ve never had a panic attack before,” Burgess told Good Morning America. “I’m a new mom, and all of a sudden, I was in this full-blown panic attack.” She also opened up about her intrusive thoughts in a Dec. 9, 2022 Instagram post, which Burgess described as “super dark thoughts of all the things that could go wrong. All the ways I or life could accidentally hurt my baby. Falling down stairs holding him, sickness, a car accident.. the list is long but I won’t share it. If you know you know.” The former Dancing With the Stars pro described that she thinks it stems from having a “massive responsibility suddenly upon us when we leave that hospital… in a diaper.. sleep deprived, emotionally charged but also depleted, trying to piece ourselves back together and let’s not forget .. in pain.” She went on, “That new responsibility is filled with so much love, wonder and awe but nobody warns you about the equal amount of fear that now lives within you. It’s the most excruciating love you’ve ever felt and its overwhelming, at least for me it was.” Maren Morris Image Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images During a “Sunday Sitdown” interview with TODAY’s Willie Geist, Maren Morris opened up about her experience with postpartum depression following the birth of her son, Hayes, in March 2020. “I think a lot of identity crises happened there,” she said of becoming a mom in the midst of the global coronavirus outbreak. She explained, “Not just being a new parent and a new mother and dealing with postpartum depression for the first time, and reeling from that, and trying to, like, find the forest through the trees, but also just knowing my worth without someone clapping for me.” Morris shared that making music with her husband, fellow singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd, is ultimately what helped her to overcome PPD and the added darkness from the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was like, ‘Can we just please write something light to pull me out of this pandemic doldrum? I don’t wanna, you know, sit in the ashes very long here.’ He kind of just helped me in song form, and in just conversation form, figure out how to get to the light.” Ayesha Curry Image Credit: Bryan Bedder/WWD via Getty Images Ayesha Curry recently opened up on the Because Life podcast about suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her second child, son Ryan, with husband Steph Curry, but she didn’t have an official diagnosis at the time. She made the decision to stop breastfeeding at six months, which made her “feel like a failure” as pressure of life in the public eye only “brought some other insecurities with it.” The mom of four now wants to help end the stigma around PPD. “It’s not anything we talked about with our moms at the time,” she said. “It was this invisible thing. Even to this day, I’ve never heard my mom talk about it. They didn’t experience that. It might have been a sign of the times.” Gwyneth Paltrow Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Gwyneth Paltrow went through a hard time after her second child, son Moses, was born. She revealed to Entertainment Tonight, “Luckily [my case] was low grade enough that I didn’t have to be hospitalized, but it’s a very debilitating thing, and I think there’s so much shame around it, and there shouldn’t be. It’s something that happens, it’s something that befalls many women after they have a baby, and for me, it ended up being a wonderful opportunity to explore some underlying issues that I think the depression kind of brought out.” Amanda Seyfried Image Credit: WWD via Getty Images Amanda Seyfried made a decision with her doctor during her first pregnancy with daughter Nina to stay on the antidepressant she had been on “for years and years and years.” The A Mouthful of Air star revealed to SheKnows that she was “so lucky to have had that research and to have that confidence in taking my medicine while I was pregnant.” The actress believes this move helped her avoid postpartum depression after both of her pregnancies. “I don’t want to feel bad, I don’t want to feel scared,” Seyfried explained. “I want to feel as supported as possible because this country doesn’t support women, maternal mental health, or maternal health at all. Postpartum, the fourth trimester, is nothing, it doesn’t exist to the health care industry at all.” adeleAdele Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images “My knowledge of postpartum — or postnatal, as we call it in England — is that you don’t want to be with your child; you’re worried you might hurt your child; you’re worried you weren’t doing a good job,” Adele said in an interview with Vanity Fair, explaining why she hadn’t initially thought she had PPD. “I was obsessed with my child,” she noted. It was unlike PPD cases she’d heard about where the mother felt disconnected from her baby. But still, she was struggling. “I felt very inadequate; I felt like I’d made the worst decision of my life,” Adele continued. Now, she’s comfortable admitting that she “had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me,” she told the publication. Reese Witherspoon Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Witherspoon told Jameela Jamil on her I Weigh podcast that she experienced varying degrees of PPD with her kids. “I’ve had three kids. After each child, I had a different experience. One kid I had kind of mild postpartum, and one kid I had severe postpartum where I had to take pretty heavy medication because I just wasn’t thinking straight at all. And then I had one kid where I had no postpartum at all.” She added that she was “completely out of control” after the birth of her first child, daughter Ava Phillipe, and that seeking help was absolutely key to her recovery. Chrissy Teigen Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety Chrissy Teigen — who shares four kids with husband John Legend — opened up to Net-a-Porter about the postpartum depression she experienced after her eldest’s birth — and how she felt guilty for feeling bad at all. “I felt bad [about it] because we had so many resources. John was great and helpful. My mom was here… I was embarrassed,” she recalled. “I was prescribed Lexapro [an antidepressant] when I was a teenager, and then I just quit cold turkey, not thinking it was a real thing. I thought everyone had problems like mine, like it was part of life.” Serena Williams Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images Tennis Legend Serena Williams opened up about her experiences with postpartum depression after the birth of her first daughter, writing on Instagram: “I felt like I was not a good mom. I read several articles that said postpartum emotions can last up to 3 years if not dealt with,” she explained. What helped her get through it? “I like communication best,” Williams continued in her post. “Talking things through with my mom, my sisters, my friends let me know that my feelings are totally normal. It’s totally normal to feel like I’m not doing enough for my baby.” Drew Barrymore Image Credit: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images After she gave birth to her second baby, Drew Barrymore revealed that she suffered from PPD. “I didn’t have postpartum the first time, so I didn’t understand it, because I was like, ‘I feel great!’ The second time, I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand,'” Barrymore told People. “It’s a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud.” Courteney Cox Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images In 2005, nearly a year after she gave birth to her daughter Coco Arquette (pictured above), Courteney Cox told USA Today that she suffered from PPD a few months after she became a mom. “I went through a really hard time — not right after the baby, but when [Coco] turned 6 months. I couldn’t sleep. My heart was racing. And I got really depressed. I went to the doctor and found out my hormones had been pummeled.” Celine Dion Image Credit: Kristin Callahan/Everett Collection After Celine Dion had her twins, Nelson and Eddy, she [unsurprisingly] felt very overwhelmed. Dion told GALA magazine, “One moment, tremendous happiness; the next, fatigue sets in, and I cried for no reason, and then that took care of itself.” She also added, “I had no appetite, and that bothered me. My mother remarked that she noticed I had moments of lifelessness but reassured me that this was entirely normal.” Alanis Morissette Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images After the 2010 birth of her son Ever, Morissette went through a “really intense time.” On Good Morning America, Morissette encouraged women suffering with PPD to get help sooner rather than later, saying, “If I could share anything with anyone who’s going through it, it would be to encourage them to seek help and reach out a little earlier than I did.”  Vanessa Lachey Image Credit: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Adopt Together. Vanessa Lachey revealed that, after the birth of her son Camden, she “came undone.” In a candid blog post, Lachey talked about her experience, saying, “I noticed a swing in my emotions. At this point I was sick of feeling like a milk machine. I felt lost, unloved, alone and at my wits end. It’s weird, too, because I have an amazing and supportive husband, his loving family and wonderful friends. But at that moment… I felt like NO ONE understood me.” Lachey also confessed that the early days of motherhood were nothing like what she had envisioned. “I imagined blissful days, tired nights, but quiet loving moments,” she wrote. “I imagined family dinners with the 12 casseroles I prepared ahead of time, and a beautiful post-pregnancy glow that embodied me 24-7. But This was none of that.” Carnie Wilson Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Back in 2005, Carnie Wilson admitted to suffering postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Lola. “I cried all day over everything,” Wilson told People. “It’s a physical feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. You’re overwhelmed with love and joy, then sadness and fear. You’re so afraid you’re going to fail this baby. What if you drop her or hurt her? She’s totally dependent on you, and it’s scary.” Kendra Wilkinson Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Kendra Wilkinson had a hard time after her son Hank Jr. was born in 2009. Nearly two years after she became a mother, Wilkinson opened up about her private battle with PPD to People. “It got pretty bad, [but] not to the point where I would harm my family. I was a great mom and did what I needed to, but I was definitely very depressed,” Wilkinson revealed. “[Motherhood is] a big change in life, and it happened overnight.” Wilkinson also said that PPD “needs to be talked about.” Catelynn Lowell Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Teen Mom star Catelynn Lowell felt severely depressed after she gave birth to daughter Novalee in 2015. “I started having severe panic and anxiety attacks in the middle of the night, which led me into a deep depression,” she admitted. “I couldn’t stop crying. I felt I’d be better off dead. I needed help.” Peggy Tanous Image Credit: Michael Germana/Everett Collection Former star of The Real Housewives of Orange County Peggy Tanous confessed to suffering from PPD in a blog post for Bravo. Remembering what her experience was like, Tanous revealed, “I finally had everything I had wanted, a great husband and amazing children, but I felt as if nothing was ever enough to make me happy. It was as if I never had enough of anything, but now being healthier I realize it isn’t about getting enough of something, but rather having a different frame of mind!” Source link

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Postpartum depression (PPD) is super common, affecting one out of every eight people who give birth — as well as even some partners who didn’t give birth. But it’s something far too few parents speak openly about, likely due to stigma and fears of being seen as not stable or “good enough” to take care of their babies. That’s why when celebrity parents use their platforms to share their experiences, it’s all the more powerful — because they’re broadcasting the message that yes, this is normal. Yes, we are still good moms. Yes, so are you. From Brooke Shields and Alanis Morissette to Adele and Reese Witherspoon, there are plenty of brave and openhearted celebrity moms out there who prove that you can indeed have PPD or postpartum anxiety (PPA) and a) overcome it and b) still be a badass mom. These A-listers have revealed the harrowing experiences they had after giving birth in an effort to let other women know they’re not alone. Read on for their stories. If you or a loved one are dealing with any form of postpartum emotional distress, please know that help is available. An excellent resource for information and support is Postpartum Support International. Call 1-800-944-4773 or visit postpartum.net for resources.  A version of this story was originally published in January 2017. Brooke Shields Image Credit: George Chinsee/SHE Media Brooke Shields has not just spoken about her experience with postpartum depression — she wrote a whole book about it. While chatting with SHE Media CEO Sam Skey at Flow Space presents An Evening with Brooke Shields, the actress explained why she published the book. “I felt like [my experience] had been played out on a public scale … for so many years that I felt like I needed to get my voice out there,” she says. “I was so destroyed by [postpartum depression] and thrown for a loop and just had no knowledge about the fear and guilt of it all.” Kylie Kelce Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images In 2025, while preparing to welcome her fourth daughter with former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, Kylie Kelce revealed she believes she had some level of postpartum depression. “I have had periods of my life where I truly believe I was experiencing postpartum,” she said, per E News. “I know with [my eldest daughter] Wyatt that I had severe baby blues. We left the hospital, and I was like, ‘So you’re telling me this is mine?'” Hayden Panettiere Image Credit: Nina Westervelt for Variety In 2016, Hayden Panettiere revealed she suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Kaya. Panettiere got treatment for her PPD and has since become a vocal advocate for PPD awareness. “The more open I was, the more acceptance I got from people,” Panettiere told Yahoo! “I got so much support and so much love. I was floored. I feel much more exposed, yes, but in a great way.”  Panettiere has also opened up about the crossover between PPD and substance abuse, telling Women’s Health she turned to alcohol and opioids to try to manage the pain when it felt “like all the walls were closing in.” In an interview with E! News, Panettiere said she wishes she knew about PPD, what to look out for, and what would and wouldn’t help. “I just thought there was something seriously wrong with me, so I thought, ‘Fireball will fix this—duh!'” she said. “And it didn’t. It does for a moment, but then it makes everything worse.” She wishes someone had told her that PPD was not something she “should have to get over all by [herself],” and that it’s possible to give birth and not immediately feel an overwhelming sense of love. “It’s OK and not abnormal if [your baby] comes out and it’s a blob, and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is like a crazy little creation that I’m going to love when I get to know you.'” Celebrity Moms Who Battled Postpartum Depression Kylie Jenner Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images In an interview with Vanity Fair Italy published in Feb. 2023, Kylie Jenner opened up about experiencing postpartum depression with kids Stormi and Aire who she shares with ex Travis Scott. “I have experienced [postpartum depression]. Twice,” she said. “The first time was very difficult, the second was more manageable,” she went on, adding that her advice for moms is to “not to over-think 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,” Jenner continued. “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.” Sarah Michelle Gellar Image Credit: Griffin Lotz/Rolling Stone Sarah Michelle Gellar experienced postpartum depression after welcoming her firstborn, Charlotte. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer star — who shares Charlotte and son Rocky — with husband Freddie Prinze Jr., wrote about her experience in an Instagram post on May 9, 2017. “Having kids is wonderful, and life changing, and rarely what you’re prepared for,” she began, alongside a throwback photo of her and her baby girl. “I love my children more than anything in the world. But like a lot of women, I too struggled with postpartum depression after my first baby was born.” She went on, “I got help, and made it through, and every day since has been the best gift I could ever have asked for. To those of you going through this, know that you’re not alone and that it really does get better.” Sharna Burgess Image Credit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Fashion Island Sharna Burgess became a mom in June 2022 to Zane Walker Green with husband Brian Austin Green, and she experienced postpartum panic attacks and intrusive thoughts. “I had imagined the absolute worst-case scenario. And I felt myself having this panic attack, which I’ve never had a panic attack before,” Burgess told Good Morning America. “I’m a new mom, and all of a sudden, I was in this full-blown panic attack.” She also opened up about her intrusive thoughts in a Dec. 9, 2022 Instagram post, which Burgess described as “super dark thoughts of all the things that could go wrong. All the ways I or life could accidentally hurt my baby. Falling down stairs holding him, sickness, a car accident.. the list is long but I won’t share it. If you know you know.” The former Dancing With the Stars pro described that she thinks it stems from having a “massive responsibility suddenly upon us when we leave that hospital… in a diaper.. sleep deprived, emotionally charged but also depleted, trying to piece ourselves back together and let’s not forget .. in pain.” She went on, “That new responsibility is filled with so much love, wonder and awe but nobody warns you about the equal amount of fear that now lives within you. It’s the most excruciating love you’ve ever felt and its overwhelming, at least for me it was.” Maren Morris Image Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images During a “Sunday Sitdown” interview with TODAY’s Willie Geist, Maren Morris opened up about her experience with postpartum depression following the birth of her son, Hayes, in March 2020. “I think a lot of identity crises happened there,” she said of becoming a mom in the midst of the global coronavirus outbreak. She explained, “Not just being a new parent and a new mother and dealing with postpartum depression for the first time, and reeling from that, and trying to, like, find the forest through the trees, but also just knowing my worth without someone clapping for me.” Morris shared that making music with her husband, fellow singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd, is ultimately what helped her to overcome PPD and the added darkness from the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was like, ‘Can we just please write something light to pull me out of this pandemic doldrum? I don’t wanna, you know, sit in the ashes very long here.’ He kind of just helped me in song form, and in just conversation form, figure out how to get to the light.” Ayesha Curry Image Credit: Bryan Bedder/WWD via Getty Images Ayesha Curry recently opened up on the Because Life podcast about suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her second child, son Ryan, with husband Steph Curry, but she didn’t have an official diagnosis at the time. She made the decision to stop breastfeeding at six months, which made her “feel like a failure” as pressure of life in the public eye only “brought some other insecurities with it.” The mom of four now wants to help end the stigma around PPD. “It’s not anything we talked about with our moms at the time,” she said. “It was this invisible thing. Even to this day, I’ve never heard my mom talk about it. They didn’t experience that. It might have been a sign of the times.” Gwyneth Paltrow Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Gwyneth Paltrow went through a hard time after her second child, son Moses, was born. She revealed to Entertainment Tonight, “Luckily [my case] was low grade enough that I didn’t have to be hospitalized, but it’s a very debilitating thing, and I think there’s so much shame around it, and there shouldn’t be. It’s something that happens, it’s something that befalls many women after they have a baby, and for me, it ended up being a wonderful opportunity to explore some underlying issues that I think the depression kind of brought out.” Amanda Seyfried Image Credit: WWD via Getty Images Amanda Seyfried made a decision with her doctor during her first pregnancy with daughter Nina to stay on the antidepressant she had been on “for years and years and years.” The A Mouthful of Air star revealed to SheKnows that she was “so lucky to have had that research and to have that confidence in taking my medicine while I was pregnant.” The actress believes this move helped her avoid postpartum depression after both of her pregnancies. “I don’t want to feel bad, I don’t want to feel scared,” Seyfried explained. “I want to feel as supported as possible because this country doesn’t support women, maternal mental health, or maternal health at all. Postpartum, the fourth trimester, is nothing, it doesn’t exist to the health care industry at all.” adeleAdele Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images “My knowledge of postpartum — or postnatal, as we call it in England — is that you don’t want to be with your child; you’re worried you might hurt your child; you’re worried you weren’t doing a good job,” Adele said in an interview with Vanity Fair, explaining why she hadn’t initially thought she had PPD. “I was obsessed with my child,” she noted. It was unlike PPD cases she’d heard about where the mother felt disconnected from her baby. But still, she was struggling. “I felt very inadequate; I felt like I’d made the worst decision of my life,” Adele continued. Now, she’s comfortable admitting that she “had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me,” she told the publication. Reese Witherspoon Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Witherspoon told Jameela Jamil on her I Weigh podcast that she experienced varying degrees of PPD with her kids. “I’ve had three kids. After each child, I had a different experience. One kid I had kind of mild postpartum, and one kid I had severe postpartum where I had to take pretty heavy medication because I just wasn’t thinking straight at all. And then I had one kid where I had no postpartum at all.” She added that she was “completely out of control” after the birth of her first child, daughter Ava Phillipe, and that seeking help was absolutely key to her recovery. Chrissy Teigen Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety Chrissy Teigen — who shares four kids with husband John Legend — opened up to Net-a-Porter about the postpartum depression she experienced after her eldest’s birth — and how she felt guilty for feeling bad at all. “I felt bad [about it] because we had so many resources. John was great and helpful. My mom was here… I was embarrassed,” she recalled. “I was prescribed Lexapro [an antidepressant] when I was a teenager, and then I just quit cold turkey, not thinking it was a real thing. I thought everyone had problems like mine, like it was part of life.” Serena Williams Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images Tennis Legend Serena Williams opened up about her experiences with postpartum depression after the birth of her first daughter, writing on Instagram: “I felt like I was not a good mom. I read several articles that said postpartum emotions can last up to 3 years if not dealt with,” she explained. What helped her get through it? “I like communication best,” Williams continued in her post. “Talking things through with my mom, my sisters, my friends let me know that my feelings are totally normal. It’s totally normal to feel like I’m not doing enough for my baby.” Drew Barrymore Image Credit: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images After she gave birth to her second baby, Drew Barrymore revealed that she suffered from PPD. “I didn’t have postpartum the first time, so I didn’t understand it, because I was like, ‘I feel great!’ The second time, I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand,'” Barrymore told People. “It’s a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud.” Courteney Cox Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images In 2005, nearly a year after she gave birth to her daughter Coco Arquette (pictured above), Courteney Cox told USA Today that she suffered from PPD a few months after she became a mom. “I went through a really hard time — not right after the baby, but when [Coco] turned 6 months. I couldn’t sleep. My heart was racing. And I got really depressed. I went to the doctor and found out my hormones had been pummeled.” Celine Dion Image Credit: Kristin Callahan/Everett Collection After Celine Dion had her twins, Nelson and Eddy, she [unsurprisingly] felt very overwhelmed. Dion told GALA magazine, “One moment, tremendous happiness; the next, fatigue sets in, and I cried for no reason, and then that took care of itself.” She also added, “I had no appetite, and that bothered me. My mother remarked that she noticed I had moments of lifelessness but reassured me that this was entirely normal.” Alanis Morissette Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images After the 2010 birth of her son Ever, Morissette went through a “really intense time.” On Good Morning America, Morissette encouraged women suffering with PPD to get help sooner rather than later, saying, “If I could share anything with anyone who’s going through it, it would be to encourage them to seek help and reach out a little earlier than I did.”  Vanessa Lachey Image Credit: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Adopt Together. Vanessa Lachey revealed that, after the birth of her son Camden, she “came undone.” In a candid blog post, Lachey talked about her experience, saying, “I noticed a swing in my emotions. At this point I was sick of feeling like a milk machine. I felt lost, unloved, alone and at my wits end. It’s weird, too, because I have an amazing and supportive husband, his loving family and wonderful friends. But at that moment… I felt like NO ONE understood me.” Lachey also confessed that the early days of motherhood were nothing like what she had envisioned. “I imagined blissful days, tired nights, but quiet loving moments,” she wrote. “I imagined family dinners with the 12 casseroles I prepared ahead of time, and a beautiful post-pregnancy glow that embodied me 24-7. But This was none of that.” Carnie Wilson Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Back in 2005, Carnie Wilson admitted to suffering postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Lola. “I cried all day over everything,” Wilson told People. “It’s a physical feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. You’re overwhelmed with love and joy, then sadness and fear. You’re so afraid you’re going to fail this baby. What if you drop her or hurt her? She’s totally dependent on you, and it’s scary.” Kendra Wilkinson Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Kendra Wilkinson had a hard time after her son Hank Jr. was born in 2009. Nearly two years after she became a mother, Wilkinson opened up about her private battle with PPD to People. “It got pretty bad, [but] not to the point where I would harm my family. I was a great mom and did what I needed to, but I was definitely very depressed,” Wilkinson revealed. “[Motherhood is] a big change in life, and it happened overnight.” Wilkinson also said that PPD “needs to be talked about.” Catelynn Lowell Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Teen Mom star Catelynn Lowell felt severely depressed after she gave birth to daughter Novalee in 2015. “I started having severe panic and anxiety attacks in the middle of the night, which led me into a deep depression,” she admitted. “I couldn’t stop crying. I felt I’d be better off dead. I needed help.” Peggy Tanous Image Credit: Michael Germana/Everett Collection Former star of The Real Housewives of Orange County Peggy Tanous confessed to suffering from PPD in a blog post for Bravo. Remembering what her experience was like, Tanous revealed, “I finally had everything I had wanted, a great husband and amazing children, but I felt as if nothing was ever enough to make me happy. It was as if I never had enough of anything, but now being healthier I realize it isn’t about getting enough of something, but rather having a different frame of mind!” Source link

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Postpartum depression (PPD) is super common, affecting one out of every eight people who give birth — as well as even some partners who didn’t give birth. But it’s something far too few parents speak openly about, likely due to stigma and fears of being seen as not stable or “good enough” to take care of their babies. That’s why when celebrity parents use their platforms to share their experiences, it’s all the more powerful — because they’re broadcasting the message that yes, this is normal. Yes, we are still good moms. Yes, so are you. From Brooke Shields and Alanis Morissette to Adele and Reese Witherspoon, there are plenty of brave and openhearted celebrity moms out there who prove that you can indeed have PPD or postpartum anxiety (PPA) and a) overcome it and b) still be a badass mom. These A-listers have revealed the harrowing experiences they had after giving birth in an effort to let other women know they’re not alone. Read on for their stories. If you or a loved one are dealing with any form of postpartum emotional distress, please know that help is available. An excellent resource for information and support is Postpartum Support International. Call 1-800-944-4773 or visit postpartum.net for resources.  A version of this story was originally published in January 2017. Brooke Shields Image Credit: George Chinsee/SHE Media Brooke Shields has not just spoken about her experience with postpartum depression — she wrote a whole book about it. While chatting with SHE Media CEO Sam Skey at Flow Space presents An Evening with Brooke Shields, the actress explained why she published the book. “I felt like [my experience] had been played out on a public scale … for so many years that I felt like I needed to get my voice out there,” she says. “I was so destroyed by [postpartum depression] and thrown for a loop and just had no knowledge about the fear and guilt of it all.” Kylie Kelce Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images In 2025, while preparing to welcome her fourth daughter with former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, Kylie Kelce revealed she believes she had some level of postpartum depression. “I have had periods of my life where I truly believe I was experiencing postpartum,” she said, per E News. “I know with [my eldest daughter] Wyatt that I had severe baby blues. We left the hospital, and I was like, ‘So you’re telling me this is mine?'” Hayden Panettiere Image Credit: Nina Westervelt for Variety In 2016, Hayden Panettiere revealed she suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Kaya. Panettiere got treatment for her PPD and has since become a vocal advocate for PPD awareness. “The more open I was, the more acceptance I got from people,” Panettiere told Yahoo! “I got so much support and so much love. I was floored. I feel much more exposed, yes, but in a great way.”  Panettiere has also opened up about the crossover between PPD and substance abuse, telling Women’s Health she turned to alcohol and opioids to try to manage the pain when it felt “like all the walls were closing in.” In an interview with E! News, Panettiere said she wishes she knew about PPD, what to look out for, and what would and wouldn’t help. “I just thought there was something seriously wrong with me, so I thought, ‘Fireball will fix this—duh!'” she said. “And it didn’t. It does for a moment, but then it makes everything worse.” She wishes someone had told her that PPD was not something she “should have to get over all by [herself],” and that it’s possible to give birth and not immediately feel an overwhelming sense of love. “It’s OK and not abnormal if [your baby] comes out and it’s a blob, and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is like a crazy little creation that I’m going to love when I get to know you.'” Celebrity Moms Who Battled Postpartum Depression Kylie Jenner Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images In an interview with Vanity Fair Italy published in Feb. 2023, Kylie Jenner opened up about experiencing postpartum depression with kids Stormi and Aire who she shares with ex Travis Scott. “I have experienced [postpartum depression]. Twice,” she said. “The first time was very difficult, the second was more manageable,” she went on, adding that her advice for moms is to “not to over-think 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,” Jenner continued. “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.” Sarah Michelle Gellar Image Credit: Griffin Lotz/Rolling Stone Sarah Michelle Gellar experienced postpartum depression after welcoming her firstborn, Charlotte. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer star — who shares Charlotte and son Rocky — with husband Freddie Prinze Jr., wrote about her experience in an Instagram post on May 9, 2017. “Having kids is wonderful, and life changing, and rarely what you’re prepared for,” she began, alongside a throwback photo of her and her baby girl. “I love my children more than anything in the world. But like a lot of women, I too struggled with postpartum depression after my first baby was born.” She went on, “I got help, and made it through, and every day since has been the best gift I could ever have asked for. To those of you going through this, know that you’re not alone and that it really does get better.” Sharna Burgess Image Credit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Fashion Island Sharna Burgess became a mom in June 2022 to Zane Walker Green with husband Brian Austin Green, and she experienced postpartum panic attacks and intrusive thoughts. “I had imagined the absolute worst-case scenario. And I felt myself having this panic attack, which I’ve never had a panic attack before,” Burgess told Good Morning America. “I’m a new mom, and all of a sudden, I was in this full-blown panic attack.” She also opened up about her intrusive thoughts in a Dec. 9, 2022 Instagram post, which Burgess described as “super dark thoughts of all the things that could go wrong. All the ways I or life could accidentally hurt my baby. Falling down stairs holding him, sickness, a car accident.. the list is long but I won’t share it. If you know you know.” The former Dancing With the Stars pro described that she thinks it stems from having a “massive responsibility suddenly upon us when we leave that hospital… in a diaper.. sleep deprived, emotionally charged but also depleted, trying to piece ourselves back together and let’s not forget .. in pain.” She went on, “That new responsibility is filled with so much love, wonder and awe but nobody warns you about the equal amount of fear that now lives within you. It’s the most excruciating love you’ve ever felt and its overwhelming, at least for me it was.” Maren Morris Image Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images During a “Sunday Sitdown” interview with TODAY’s Willie Geist, Maren Morris opened up about her experience with postpartum depression following the birth of her son, Hayes, in March 2020. “I think a lot of identity crises happened there,” she said of becoming a mom in the midst of the global coronavirus outbreak. She explained, “Not just being a new parent and a new mother and dealing with postpartum depression for the first time, and reeling from that, and trying to, like, find the forest through the trees, but also just knowing my worth without someone clapping for me.” Morris shared that making music with her husband, fellow singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd, is ultimately what helped her to overcome PPD and the added darkness from the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was like, ‘Can we just please write something light to pull me out of this pandemic doldrum? I don’t wanna, you know, sit in the ashes very long here.’ He kind of just helped me in song form, and in just conversation form, figure out how to get to the light.” Ayesha Curry Image Credit: Bryan Bedder/WWD via Getty Images Ayesha Curry recently opened up on the Because Life podcast about suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her second child, son Ryan, with husband Steph Curry, but she didn’t have an official diagnosis at the time. She made the decision to stop breastfeeding at six months, which made her “feel like a failure” as pressure of life in the public eye only “brought some other insecurities with it.” The mom of four now wants to help end the stigma around PPD. “It’s not anything we talked about with our moms at the time,” she said. “It was this invisible thing. Even to this day, I’ve never heard my mom talk about it. They didn’t experience that. It might have been a sign of the times.” Gwyneth Paltrow Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Gwyneth Paltrow went through a hard time after her second child, son Moses, was born. She revealed to Entertainment Tonight, “Luckily [my case] was low grade enough that I didn’t have to be hospitalized, but it’s a very debilitating thing, and I think there’s so much shame around it, and there shouldn’t be. It’s something that happens, it’s something that befalls many women after they have a baby, and for me, it ended up being a wonderful opportunity to explore some underlying issues that I think the depression kind of brought out.” Amanda Seyfried Image Credit: WWD via Getty Images Amanda Seyfried made a decision with her doctor during her first pregnancy with daughter Nina to stay on the antidepressant she had been on “for years and years and years.” The A Mouthful of Air star revealed to SheKnows that she was “so lucky to have had that research and to have that confidence in taking my medicine while I was pregnant.” The actress believes this move helped her avoid postpartum depression after both of her pregnancies. “I don’t want to feel bad, I don’t want to feel scared,” Seyfried explained. “I want to feel as supported as possible because this country doesn’t support women, maternal mental health, or maternal health at all. Postpartum, the fourth trimester, is nothing, it doesn’t exist to the health care industry at all.” adeleAdele Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images “My knowledge of postpartum — or postnatal, as we call it in England — is that you don’t want to be with your child; you’re worried you might hurt your child; you’re worried you weren’t doing a good job,” Adele said in an interview with Vanity Fair, explaining why she hadn’t initially thought she had PPD. “I was obsessed with my child,” she noted. It was unlike PPD cases she’d heard about where the mother felt disconnected from her baby. But still, she was struggling. “I felt very inadequate; I felt like I’d made the worst decision of my life,” Adele continued. Now, she’s comfortable admitting that she “had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me,” she told the publication. Reese Witherspoon Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Witherspoon told Jameela Jamil on her I Weigh podcast that she experienced varying degrees of PPD with her kids. “I’ve had three kids. After each child, I had a different experience. One kid I had kind of mild postpartum, and one kid I had severe postpartum where I had to take pretty heavy medication because I just wasn’t thinking straight at all. And then I had one kid where I had no postpartum at all.” She added that she was “completely out of control” after the birth of her first child, daughter Ava Phillipe, and that seeking help was absolutely key to her recovery. Chrissy Teigen Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety Chrissy Teigen — who shares four kids with husband John Legend — opened up to Net-a-Porter about the postpartum depression she experienced after her eldest’s birth — and how she felt guilty for feeling bad at all. “I felt bad [about it] because we had so many resources. John was great and helpful. My mom was here… I was embarrassed,” she recalled. “I was prescribed Lexapro [an antidepressant] when I was a teenager, and then I just quit cold turkey, not thinking it was a real thing. I thought everyone had problems like mine, like it was part of life.” Serena Williams Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images Tennis Legend Serena Williams opened up about her experiences with postpartum depression after the birth of her first daughter, writing on Instagram: “I felt like I was not a good mom. I read several articles that said postpartum emotions can last up to 3 years if not dealt with,” she explained. What helped her get through it? “I like communication best,” Williams continued in her post. “Talking things through with my mom, my sisters, my friends let me know that my feelings are totally normal. It’s totally normal to feel like I’m not doing enough for my baby.” Drew Barrymore Image Credit: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images After she gave birth to her second baby, Drew Barrymore revealed that she suffered from PPD. “I didn’t have postpartum the first time, so I didn’t understand it, because I was like, ‘I feel great!’ The second time, I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand,'” Barrymore told People. “It’s a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud.” Courteney Cox Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images In 2005, nearly a year after she gave birth to her daughter Coco Arquette (pictured above), Courteney Cox told USA Today that she suffered from PPD a few months after she became a mom. “I went through a really hard time — not right after the baby, but when [Coco] turned 6 months. I couldn’t sleep. My heart was racing. And I got really depressed. I went to the doctor and found out my hormones had been pummeled.” Celine Dion Image Credit: Kristin Callahan/Everett Collection After Celine Dion had her twins, Nelson and Eddy, she [unsurprisingly] felt very overwhelmed. Dion told GALA magazine, “One moment, tremendous happiness; the next, fatigue sets in, and I cried for no reason, and then that took care of itself.” She also added, “I had no appetite, and that bothered me. My mother remarked that she noticed I had moments of lifelessness but reassured me that this was entirely normal.” Alanis Morissette Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images After the 2010 birth of her son Ever, Morissette went through a “really intense time.” On Good Morning America, Morissette encouraged women suffering with PPD to get help sooner rather than later, saying, “If I could share anything with anyone who’s going through it, it would be to encourage them to seek help and reach out a little earlier than I did.”  Vanessa Lachey Image Credit: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Adopt Together. Vanessa Lachey revealed that, after the birth of her son Camden, she “came undone.” In a candid blog post, Lachey talked about her experience, saying, “I noticed a swing in my emotions. At this point I was sick of feeling like a milk machine. I felt lost, unloved, alone and at my wits end. It’s weird, too, because I have an amazing and supportive husband, his loving family and wonderful friends. But at that moment… I felt like NO ONE understood me.” Lachey also confessed that the early days of motherhood were nothing like what she had envisioned. “I imagined blissful days, tired nights, but quiet loving moments,” she wrote. “I imagined family dinners with the 12 casseroles I prepared ahead of time, and a beautiful post-pregnancy glow that embodied me 24-7. But This was none of that.” Carnie Wilson Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Back in 2005, Carnie Wilson admitted to suffering postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Lola. “I cried all day over everything,” Wilson told People. “It’s a physical feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. You’re overwhelmed with love and joy, then sadness and fear. You’re so afraid you’re going to fail this baby. What if you drop her or hurt her? She’s totally dependent on you, and it’s scary.” Kendra Wilkinson Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Kendra Wilkinson had a hard time after her son Hank Jr. was born in 2009. Nearly two years after she became a mother, Wilkinson opened up about her private battle with PPD to People. “It got pretty bad, [but] not to the point where I would harm my family. I was a great mom and did what I needed to, but I was definitely very depressed,” Wilkinson revealed. “[Motherhood is] a big change in life, and it happened overnight.” Wilkinson also said that PPD “needs to be talked about.” Catelynn Lowell Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Teen Mom star Catelynn Lowell felt severely depressed after she gave birth to daughter Novalee in 2015. “I started having severe panic and anxiety attacks in the middle of the night, which led me into a deep depression,” she admitted. “I couldn’t stop crying. I felt I’d be better off dead. I needed help.” Peggy Tanous Image Credit: Michael Germana/Everett Collection Former star of The Real Housewives of Orange County Peggy Tanous confessed to suffering from PPD in a blog post for Bravo. Remembering what her experience was like, Tanous revealed, “I finally had everything I had wanted, a great husband and amazing children, but I felt as if nothing was ever enough to make me happy. It was as if I never had enough of anything, but now being healthier I realize it isn’t about getting enough of something, but rather having a different frame of mind!” Source link

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NEW RED DWARF WALL E AU CHAPTER UP FINALLY!!

Finally getting to meet Cat and also getting to the proper shippy phase gang, enjoy!!!

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Not actually drawn all the Wall E Au versions of the boys together yet so here's a lil lineup of them all with their final designs in case anyone wanted to see them all together :]

I really need to get some new pens and pencils lolll I don't have nearly enough flesh tone pencils

Also Tumblr messed with the saturation so everyone looks paler than the drawing actually looks 😭😭

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Postpartum depression (PPD) is super common, affecting one out of every eight people who give birth — as well as even some partners who didn’t give birth. But it’s something far too few parents speak openly about, likely due to stigma and fears of being seen as not stable or “good enough” to take care of their babies. That’s why when celebrity parents use their platforms to share their experiences, it’s all the more powerful — because they’re broadcasting the message that yes, this is normal. Yes, we are still good moms. Yes, so are you. From Brooke Shields and Alanis Morissette to Adele and Reese Witherspoon, there are plenty of brave and openhearted celebrity moms out there who prove that you can indeed have PPD or postpartum anxiety (PPA) and a) overcome it and b) still be a badass mom. These A-listers have revealed the harrowing experiences they had after giving birth in an effort to let other women know they’re not alone. Read on for their stories. If you or a loved one are dealing with any form of postpartum emotional distress, please know that help is available. An excellent resource for information and support is Postpartum Support International. Call 1-800-944-4773 or visit postpartum.net for resources.  A version of this story was originally published in January 2017. Brooke Shields Image Credit: George Chinsee/SHE Media Brooke Shields has not just spoken about her experience with postpartum depression — she wrote a whole book about it. While chatting with SHE Media CEO Sam Skey at Flow Space presents An Evening with Brooke Shields, the actress explained why she published the book. “I felt like [my experience] had been played out on a public scale … for so many years that I felt like I needed to get my voice out there,” she says. “I was so destroyed by [postpartum depression] and thrown for a loop and just had no knowledge about the fear and guilt of it all.” Kylie Kelce Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images In 2025, while preparing to welcome her fourth daughter with former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, Kylie Kelce revealed she believes she had some level of postpartum depression. “I have had periods of my life where I truly believe I was experiencing postpartum,” she said, per E News. “I know with [my eldest daughter] Wyatt that I had severe baby blues. We left the hospital, and I was like, ‘So you’re telling me this is mine?'” Hayden Panettiere Image Credit: Nina Westervelt for Variety In 2016, Hayden Panettiere revealed she suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Kaya. Panettiere got treatment for her PPD and has since become a vocal advocate for PPD awareness. “The more open I was, the more acceptance I got from people,” Panettiere told Yahoo! “I got so much support and so much love. I was floored. I feel much more exposed, yes, but in a great way.”  Panettiere has also opened up about the crossover between PPD and substance abuse, telling Women’s Health she turned to alcohol and opioids to try to manage the pain when it felt “like all the walls were closing in.” In an interview with E! News, Panettiere said she wishes she knew about PPD, what to look out for, and what would and wouldn’t help. “I just thought there was something seriously wrong with me, so I thought, ‘Fireball will fix this—duh!'” she said. “And it didn’t. It does for a moment, but then it makes everything worse.” She wishes someone had told her that PPD was not something she “should have to get over all by [herself],” and that it’s possible to give birth and not immediately feel an overwhelming sense of love. “It’s OK and not abnormal if [your baby] comes out and it’s a blob, and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is like a crazy little creation that I’m going to love when I get to know you.'” Celebrity Moms Who Battled Postpartum Depression Kylie Jenner Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images In an interview with Vanity Fair Italy published in Feb. 2023, Kylie Jenner opened up about experiencing postpartum depression with kids Stormi and Aire who she shares with ex Travis Scott. “I have experienced [postpartum depression]. Twice,” she said. “The first time was very difficult, the second was more manageable,” she went on, adding that her advice for moms is to “not to over-think 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,” Jenner continued. “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.” Sarah Michelle Gellar Image Credit: Griffin Lotz/Rolling Stone Sarah Michelle Gellar experienced postpartum depression after welcoming her firstborn, Charlotte. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer star — who shares Charlotte and son Rocky — with husband Freddie Prinze Jr., wrote about her experience in an Instagram post on May 9, 2017. “Having kids is wonderful, and life changing, and rarely what you’re prepared for,” she began, alongside a throwback photo of her and her baby girl. “I love my children more than anything in the world. But like a lot of women, I too struggled with postpartum depression after my first baby was born.” She went on, “I got help, and made it through, and every day since has been the best gift I could ever have asked for. To those of you going through this, know that you’re not alone and that it really does get better.” Sharna Burgess Image Credit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Fashion Island Sharna Burgess became a mom in June 2022 to Zane Walker Green with husband Brian Austin Green, and she experienced postpartum panic attacks and intrusive thoughts. “I had imagined the absolute worst-case scenario. And I felt myself having this panic attack, which I’ve never had a panic attack before,” Burgess told Good Morning America. “I’m a new mom, and all of a sudden, I was in this full-blown panic attack.” She also opened up about her intrusive thoughts in a Dec. 9, 2022 Instagram post, which Burgess described as “super dark thoughts of all the things that could go wrong. All the ways I or life could accidentally hurt my baby. Falling down stairs holding him, sickness, a car accident.. the list is long but I won’t share it. If you know you know.” The former Dancing With the Stars pro described that she thinks it stems from having a “massive responsibility suddenly upon us when we leave that hospital… in a diaper.. sleep deprived, emotionally charged but also depleted, trying to piece ourselves back together and let’s not forget .. in pain.” She went on, “That new responsibility is filled with so much love, wonder and awe but nobody warns you about the equal amount of fear that now lives within you. It’s the most excruciating love you’ve ever felt and its overwhelming, at least for me it was.” Maren Morris Image Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images During a “Sunday Sitdown” interview with TODAY’s Willie Geist, Maren Morris opened up about her experience with postpartum depression following the birth of her son, Hayes, in March 2020. “I think a lot of identity crises happened there,” she said of becoming a mom in the midst of the global coronavirus outbreak. She explained, “Not just being a new parent and a new mother and dealing with postpartum depression for the first time, and reeling from that, and trying to, like, find the forest through the trees, but also just knowing my worth without someone clapping for me.” Morris shared that making music with her husband, fellow singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd, is ultimately what helped her to overcome PPD and the added darkness from the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was like, ‘Can we just please write something light to pull me out of this pandemic doldrum? I don’t wanna, you know, sit in the ashes very long here.’ He kind of just helped me in song form, and in just conversation form, figure out how to get to the light.” Ayesha Curry Image Credit: Bryan Bedder/WWD via Getty Images Ayesha Curry recently opened up on the Because Life podcast about suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her second child, son Ryan, with husband Steph Curry, but she didn’t have an official diagnosis at the time. She made the decision to stop breastfeeding at six months, which made her “feel like a failure” as pressure of life in the public eye only “brought some other insecurities with it.” The mom of four now wants to help end the stigma around PPD. “It’s not anything we talked about with our moms at the time,” she said. “It was this invisible thing. Even to this day, I’ve never heard my mom talk about it. They didn’t experience that. It might have been a sign of the times.” Gwyneth Paltrow Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Gwyneth Paltrow went through a hard time after her second child, son Moses, was born. She revealed to Entertainment Tonight, “Luckily [my case] was low grade enough that I didn’t have to be hospitalized, but it’s a very debilitating thing, and I think there’s so much shame around it, and there shouldn’t be. It’s something that happens, it’s something that befalls many women after they have a baby, and for me, it ended up being a wonderful opportunity to explore some underlying issues that I think the depression kind of brought out.” Amanda Seyfried Image Credit: WWD via Getty Images Amanda Seyfried made a decision with her doctor during her first pregnancy with daughter Nina to stay on the antidepressant she had been on “for years and years and years.” The A Mouthful of Air star revealed to SheKnows that she was “so lucky to have had that research and to have that confidence in taking my medicine while I was pregnant.” The actress believes this move helped her avoid postpartum depression after both of her pregnancies. “I don’t want to feel bad, I don’t want to feel scared,” Seyfried explained. “I want to feel as supported as possible because this country doesn’t support women, maternal mental health, or maternal health at all. Postpartum, the fourth trimester, is nothing, it doesn’t exist to the health care industry at all.” adeleAdele Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images “My knowledge of postpartum — or postnatal, as we call it in England — is that you don’t want to be with your child; you’re worried you might hurt your child; you’re worried you weren’t doing a good job,” Adele said in an interview with Vanity Fair, explaining why she hadn’t initially thought she had PPD. “I was obsessed with my child,” she noted. It was unlike PPD cases she’d heard about where the mother felt disconnected from her baby. But still, she was struggling. “I felt very inadequate; I felt like I’d made the worst decision of my life,” Adele continued. Now, she’s comfortable admitting that she “had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me,” she told the publication. Reese Witherspoon Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Witherspoon told Jameela Jamil on her I Weigh podcast that she experienced varying degrees of PPD with her kids. “I’ve had three kids. After each child, I had a different experience. One kid I had kind of mild postpartum, and one kid I had severe postpartum where I had to take pretty heavy medication because I just wasn’t thinking straight at all. And then I had one kid where I had no postpartum at all.” She added that she was “completely out of control” after the birth of her first child, daughter Ava Phillipe, and that seeking help was absolutely key to her recovery. Chrissy Teigen Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety Chrissy Teigen — who shares four kids with husband John Legend — opened up to Net-a-Porter about the postpartum depression she experienced after her eldest’s birth — and how she felt guilty for feeling bad at all. “I felt bad [about it] because we had so many resources. John was great and helpful. My mom was here… I was embarrassed,” she recalled. “I was prescribed Lexapro [an antidepressant] when I was a teenager, and then I just quit cold turkey, not thinking it was a real thing. I thought everyone had problems like mine, like it was part of life.” Serena Williams Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images Tennis Legend Serena Williams opened up about her experiences with postpartum depression after the birth of her first daughter, writing on Instagram: “I felt like I was not a good mom. I read several articles that said postpartum emotions can last up to 3 years if not dealt with,” she explained. What helped her get through it? “I like communication best,” Williams continued in her post. “Talking things through with my mom, my sisters, my friends let me know that my feelings are totally normal. It’s totally normal to feel like I’m not doing enough for my baby.” Drew Barrymore Image Credit: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images After she gave birth to her second baby, Drew Barrymore revealed that she suffered from PPD. “I didn’t have postpartum the first time, so I didn’t understand it, because I was like, ‘I feel great!’ The second time, I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand,'” Barrymore told People. “It’s a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud.” Courteney Cox Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images In 2005, nearly a year after she gave birth to her daughter Coco Arquette (pictured above), Courteney Cox told USA Today that she suffered from PPD a few months after she became a mom. “I went through a really hard time — not right after the baby, but when [Coco] turned 6 months. I couldn’t sleep. My heart was racing. And I got really depressed. I went to the doctor and found out my hormones had been pummeled.” Celine Dion Image Credit: Kristin Callahan/Everett Collection After Celine Dion had her twins, Nelson and Eddy, she [unsurprisingly] felt very overwhelmed. Dion told GALA magazine, “One moment, tremendous happiness; the next, fatigue sets in, and I cried for no reason, and then that took care of itself.” She also added, “I had no appetite, and that bothered me. My mother remarked that she noticed I had moments of lifelessness but reassured me that this was entirely normal.” Alanis Morissette Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images After the 2010 birth of her son Ever, Morissette went through a “really intense time.” On Good Morning America, Morissette encouraged women suffering with PPD to get help sooner rather than later, saying, “If I could share anything with anyone who’s going through it, it would be to encourage them to seek help and reach out a little earlier than I did.”  Vanessa Lachey Image Credit: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Adopt Together. Vanessa Lachey revealed that, after the birth of her son Camden, she “came undone.” In a candid blog post, Lachey talked about her experience, saying, “I noticed a swing in my emotions. At this point I was sick of feeling like a milk machine. I felt lost, unloved, alone and at my wits end. It’s weird, too, because I have an amazing and supportive husband, his loving family and wonderful friends. But at that moment… I felt like NO ONE understood me.” Lachey also confessed that the early days of motherhood were nothing like what she had envisioned. “I imagined blissful days, tired nights, but quiet loving moments,” she wrote. “I imagined family dinners with the 12 casseroles I prepared ahead of time, and a beautiful post-pregnancy glow that embodied me 24-7. But This was none of that.” Carnie Wilson Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Back in 2005, Carnie Wilson admitted to suffering postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Lola. “I cried all day over everything,” Wilson told People. “It’s a physical feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. You’re overwhelmed with love and joy, then sadness and fear. You’re so afraid you’re going to fail this baby. What if you drop her or hurt her? She’s totally dependent on you, and it’s scary.” Kendra Wilkinson Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Kendra Wilkinson had a hard time after her son Hank Jr. was born in 2009. Nearly two years after she became a mother, Wilkinson opened up about her private battle with PPD to People. “It got pretty bad, [but] not to the point where I would harm my family. I was a great mom and did what I needed to, but I was definitely very depressed,” Wilkinson revealed. “[Motherhood is] a big change in life, and it happened overnight.” Wilkinson also said that PPD “needs to be talked about.” Catelynn Lowell Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Teen Mom star Catelynn Lowell felt severely depressed after she gave birth to daughter Novalee in 2015. “I started having severe panic and anxiety attacks in the middle of the night, which led me into a deep depression,” she admitted. “I couldn’t stop crying. I felt I’d be better off dead. I needed help.” Peggy Tanous Image Credit: Michael Germana/Everett Collection Former star of The Real Housewives of Orange County Peggy Tanous confessed to suffering from PPD in a blog post for Bravo. Remembering what her experience was like, Tanous revealed, “I finally had everything I had wanted, a great husband and amazing children, but I felt as if nothing was ever enough to make me happy. It was as if I never had enough of anything, but now being healthier I realize it isn’t about getting enough of something, but rather having a different frame of mind!” Source link

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Postpartum depression (PPD) is super common, affecting one out of every eight people who give birth — as well as even some partners who didn’t give birth. But it’s something far too few parents speak openly about, likely due to stigma and fears of being seen as not stable or “good enough” to take care of their babies. That’s why when celebrity parents use their platforms to share their experiences, it’s all the more powerful — because they’re broadcasting the message that yes, this is normal. Yes, we are still good moms. Yes, so are you. From Brooke Shields and Alanis Morissette to Adele and Reese Witherspoon, there are plenty of brave and openhearted celebrity moms out there who prove that you can indeed have PPD or postpartum anxiety (PPA) and a) overcome it and b) still be a badass mom. These A-listers have revealed the harrowing experiences they had after giving birth in an effort to let other women know they’re not alone. Read on for their stories. If you or a loved one are dealing with any form of postpartum emotional distress, please know that help is available. An excellent resource for information and support is Postpartum Support International. Call 1-800-944-4773 or visit postpartum.net for resources.  A version of this story was originally published in January 2017. Brooke Shields Image Credit: George Chinsee/SHE Media Brooke Shields has not just spoken about her experience with postpartum depression — she wrote a whole book about it. While chatting with SHE Media CEO Sam Skey at Flow Space presents An Evening with Brooke Shields, the actress explained why she published the book. “I felt like [my experience] had been played out on a public scale … for so many years that I felt like I needed to get my voice out there,” she says. “I was so destroyed by [postpartum depression] and thrown for a loop and just had no knowledge about the fear and guilt of it all.” Kylie Kelce Image Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images In 2025, while preparing to welcome her fourth daughter with former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, Kylie Kelce revealed she believes she had some level of postpartum depression. “I have had periods of my life where I truly believe I was experiencing postpartum,” she said, per E News. “I know with [my eldest daughter] Wyatt that I had severe baby blues. We left the hospital, and I was like, ‘So you’re telling me this is mine?'” Hayden Panettiere Image Credit: Nina Westervelt for Variety In 2016, Hayden Panettiere revealed she suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Kaya. Panettiere got treatment for her PPD and has since become a vocal advocate for PPD awareness. “The more open I was, the more acceptance I got from people,” Panettiere told Yahoo! “I got so much support and so much love. I was floored. I feel much more exposed, yes, but in a great way.”  Panettiere has also opened up about the crossover between PPD and substance abuse, telling Women’s Health she turned to alcohol and opioids to try to manage the pain when it felt “like all the walls were closing in.” In an interview with E! News, Panettiere said she wishes she knew about PPD, what to look out for, and what would and wouldn’t help. “I just thought there was something seriously wrong with me, so I thought, ‘Fireball will fix this—duh!'” she said. “And it didn’t. It does for a moment, but then it makes everything worse.” She wishes someone had told her that PPD was not something she “should have to get over all by [herself],” and that it’s possible to give birth and not immediately feel an overwhelming sense of love. “It’s OK and not abnormal if [your baby] comes out and it’s a blob, and you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is like a crazy little creation that I’m going to love when I get to know you.'” Celebrity Moms Who Battled Postpartum Depression Kylie Jenner Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/WWD via Getty Images In an interview with Vanity Fair Italy published in Feb. 2023, Kylie Jenner opened up about experiencing postpartum depression with kids Stormi and Aire who she shares with ex Travis Scott. “I have experienced [postpartum depression]. Twice,” she said. “The first time was very difficult, the second was more manageable,” she went on, adding that her advice for moms is to “not to over-think 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,” Jenner continued. “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.” Sarah Michelle Gellar Image Credit: Griffin Lotz/Rolling Stone Sarah Michelle Gellar experienced postpartum depression after welcoming her firstborn, Charlotte. The Buffy The Vampire Slayer star — who shares Charlotte and son Rocky — with husband Freddie Prinze Jr., wrote about her experience in an Instagram post on May 9, 2017. “Having kids is wonderful, and life changing, and rarely what you’re prepared for,” she began, alongside a throwback photo of her and her baby girl. “I love my children more than anything in the world. But like a lot of women, I too struggled with postpartum depression after my first baby was born.” She went on, “I got help, and made it through, and every day since has been the best gift I could ever have asked for. To those of you going through this, know that you’re not alone and that it really does get better.” Sharna Burgess Image Credit: Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Fashion Island Sharna Burgess became a mom in June 2022 to Zane Walker Green with husband Brian Austin Green, and she experienced postpartum panic attacks and intrusive thoughts. “I had imagined the absolute worst-case scenario. And I felt myself having this panic attack, which I’ve never had a panic attack before,” Burgess told Good Morning America. “I’m a new mom, and all of a sudden, I was in this full-blown panic attack.” She also opened up about her intrusive thoughts in a Dec. 9, 2022 Instagram post, which Burgess described as “super dark thoughts of all the things that could go wrong. All the ways I or life could accidentally hurt my baby. Falling down stairs holding him, sickness, a car accident.. the list is long but I won’t share it. If you know you know.” The former Dancing With the Stars pro described that she thinks it stems from having a “massive responsibility suddenly upon us when we leave that hospital… in a diaper.. sleep deprived, emotionally charged but also depleted, trying to piece ourselves back together and let’s not forget .. in pain.” She went on, “That new responsibility is filled with so much love, wonder and awe but nobody warns you about the equal amount of fear that now lives within you. It’s the most excruciating love you’ve ever felt and its overwhelming, at least for me it was.” Maren Morris Image Credit: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images During a “Sunday Sitdown” interview with TODAY’s Willie Geist, Maren Morris opened up about her experience with postpartum depression following the birth of her son, Hayes, in March 2020. “I think a lot of identity crises happened there,” she said of becoming a mom in the midst of the global coronavirus outbreak. She explained, “Not just being a new parent and a new mother and dealing with postpartum depression for the first time, and reeling from that, and trying to, like, find the forest through the trees, but also just knowing my worth without someone clapping for me.” Morris shared that making music with her husband, fellow singer-songwriter Ryan Hurd, is ultimately what helped her to overcome PPD and the added darkness from the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was like, ‘Can we just please write something light to pull me out of this pandemic doldrum? I don’t wanna, you know, sit in the ashes very long here.’ He kind of just helped me in song form, and in just conversation form, figure out how to get to the light.” Ayesha Curry Image Credit: Bryan Bedder/WWD via Getty Images Ayesha Curry recently opened up on the Because Life podcast about suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her second child, son Ryan, with husband Steph Curry, but she didn’t have an official diagnosis at the time. She made the decision to stop breastfeeding at six months, which made her “feel like a failure” as pressure of life in the public eye only “brought some other insecurities with it.” The mom of four now wants to help end the stigma around PPD. “It’s not anything we talked about with our moms at the time,” she said. “It was this invisible thing. Even to this day, I’ve never heard my mom talk about it. They didn’t experience that. It might have been a sign of the times.” Gwyneth Paltrow Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images Gwyneth Paltrow went through a hard time after her second child, son Moses, was born. She revealed to Entertainment Tonight, “Luckily [my case] was low grade enough that I didn’t have to be hospitalized, but it’s a very debilitating thing, and I think there’s so much shame around it, and there shouldn’t be. It’s something that happens, it’s something that befalls many women after they have a baby, and for me, it ended up being a wonderful opportunity to explore some underlying issues that I think the depression kind of brought out.” Amanda Seyfried Image Credit: WWD via Getty Images Amanda Seyfried made a decision with her doctor during her first pregnancy with daughter Nina to stay on the antidepressant she had been on “for years and years and years.” The A Mouthful of Air star revealed to SheKnows that she was “so lucky to have had that research and to have that confidence in taking my medicine while I was pregnant.” The actress believes this move helped her avoid postpartum depression after both of her pregnancies. “I don’t want to feel bad, I don’t want to feel scared,” Seyfried explained. “I want to feel as supported as possible because this country doesn’t support women, maternal mental health, or maternal health at all. Postpartum, the fourth trimester, is nothing, it doesn’t exist to the health care industry at all.” adeleAdele Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images “My knowledge of postpartum — or postnatal, as we call it in England — is that you don’t want to be with your child; you’re worried you might hurt your child; you’re worried you weren’t doing a good job,” Adele said in an interview with Vanity Fair, explaining why she hadn’t initially thought she had PPD. “I was obsessed with my child,” she noted. It was unlike PPD cases she’d heard about where the mother felt disconnected from her baby. But still, she was struggling. “I felt very inadequate; I felt like I’d made the worst decision of my life,” Adele continued. Now, she’s comfortable admitting that she “had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me,” she told the publication. Reese Witherspoon Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Witherspoon told Jameela Jamil on her I Weigh podcast that she experienced varying degrees of PPD with her kids. “I’ve had three kids. After each child, I had a different experience. One kid I had kind of mild postpartum, and one kid I had severe postpartum where I had to take pretty heavy medication because I just wasn’t thinking straight at all. And then I had one kid where I had no postpartum at all.” She added that she was “completely out of control” after the birth of her first child, daughter Ava Phillipe, and that seeking help was absolutely key to her recovery. Chrissy Teigen Image Credit: Michael Buckner/Variety Chrissy Teigen — who shares four kids with husband John Legend — opened up to Net-a-Porter about the postpartum depression she experienced after her eldest’s birth — and how she felt guilty for feeling bad at all. “I felt bad [about it] because we had so many resources. John was great and helpful. My mom was here… I was embarrassed,” she recalled. “I was prescribed Lexapro [an antidepressant] when I was a teenager, and then I just quit cold turkey, not thinking it was a real thing. I thought everyone had problems like mine, like it was part of life.” Serena Williams Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images Tennis Legend Serena Williams opened up about her experiences with postpartum depression after the birth of her first daughter, writing on Instagram: “I felt like I was not a good mom. I read several articles that said postpartum emotions can last up to 3 years if not dealt with,” she explained. What helped her get through it? “I like communication best,” Williams continued in her post. “Talking things through with my mom, my sisters, my friends let me know that my feelings are totally normal. It’s totally normal to feel like I’m not doing enough for my baby.” Drew Barrymore Image Credit: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images After she gave birth to her second baby, Drew Barrymore revealed that she suffered from PPD. “I didn’t have postpartum the first time, so I didn’t understand it, because I was like, ‘I feel great!’ The second time, I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand,'” Barrymore told People. “It’s a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud.” Courteney Cox Image Credit: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images In 2005, nearly a year after she gave birth to her daughter Coco Arquette (pictured above), Courteney Cox told USA Today that she suffered from PPD a few months after she became a mom. “I went through a really hard time — not right after the baby, but when [Coco] turned 6 months. I couldn’t sleep. My heart was racing. And I got really depressed. I went to the doctor and found out my hormones had been pummeled.” Celine Dion Image Credit: Kristin Callahan/Everett Collection After Celine Dion had her twins, Nelson and Eddy, she [unsurprisingly] felt very overwhelmed. Dion told GALA magazine, “One moment, tremendous happiness; the next, fatigue sets in, and I cried for no reason, and then that took care of itself.” She also added, “I had no appetite, and that bothered me. My mother remarked that she noticed I had moments of lifelessness but reassured me that this was entirely normal.” Alanis Morissette Image Credit: Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images After the 2010 birth of her son Ever, Morissette went through a “really intense time.” On Good Morning America, Morissette encouraged women suffering with PPD to get help sooner rather than later, saying, “If I could share anything with anyone who’s going through it, it would be to encourage them to seek help and reach out a little earlier than I did.”  Vanessa Lachey Image Credit: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for Adopt Together. Vanessa Lachey revealed that, after the birth of her son Camden, she “came undone.” In a candid blog post, Lachey talked about her experience, saying, “I noticed a swing in my emotions. At this point I was sick of feeling like a milk machine. I felt lost, unloved, alone and at my wits end. It’s weird, too, because I have an amazing and supportive husband, his loving family and wonderful friends. But at that moment… I felt like NO ONE understood me.” Lachey also confessed that the early days of motherhood were nothing like what she had envisioned. “I imagined blissful days, tired nights, but quiet loving moments,” she wrote. “I imagined family dinners with the 12 casseroles I prepared ahead of time, and a beautiful post-pregnancy glow that embodied me 24-7. But This was none of that.” Carnie Wilson Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Back in 2005, Carnie Wilson admitted to suffering postpartum depression after the birth of her daughter, Lola. “I cried all day over everything,” Wilson told People. “It’s a physical feeling. I don’t know how to describe it. You’re overwhelmed with love and joy, then sadness and fear. You’re so afraid you’re going to fail this baby. What if you drop her or hurt her? She’s totally dependent on you, and it’s scary.” Kendra Wilkinson Image Credit: Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection Kendra Wilkinson had a hard time after her son Hank Jr. was born in 2009. Nearly two years after she became a mother, Wilkinson opened up about her private battle with PPD to People. “It got pretty bad, [but] not to the point where I would harm my family. I was a great mom and did what I needed to, but I was definitely very depressed,” Wilkinson revealed. “[Motherhood is] a big change in life, and it happened overnight.” Wilkinson also said that PPD “needs to be talked about.” Catelynn Lowell Image Credit: Priscilla Grant/Everett Collection Teen Mom star Catelynn Lowell felt severely depressed after she gave birth to daughter Novalee in 2015. “I started having severe panic and anxiety attacks in the middle of the night, which led me into a deep depression,” she admitted. “I couldn’t stop crying. I felt I’d be better off dead. I needed help.” Peggy Tanous Image Credit: Michael Germana/Everett Collection Former star of The Real Housewives of Orange County Peggy Tanous confessed to suffering from PPD in a blog post for Bravo. Remembering what her experience was like, Tanous revealed, “I finally had everything I had wanted, a great husband and amazing children, but I felt as if nothing was ever enough to make me happy. It was as if I never had enough of anything, but now being healthier I realize it isn’t about getting enough of something, but rather having a different frame of mind!” Source link

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Lords Vote

On: Movement of Goods (Northern Ireland to Great Britain) (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Transitory Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2024

Lord Dodds of Duncairn moved, as an amendment to the motion to approve the Regulations, at end to insert “but that this House regrets that the draft Regulations implement the Northern Ireland Protocol and Windsor Framework which prevent Northern Ireland being a full part of the United Kingdom’s internal market, and undermine the democratic and constitutional rights of the people of Northern Ireland.” The House divided:

Ayes: 8 (50.0% DUP, 37.5% Con, 12.5% ) Noes: 96 (82.3% Lab, 8.3% LD, 8.3% XB, 1.0% PC) Absent: ~725

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Democratic Unionist Party (4 votes)

Dodds of Duncairn, L. Hay of Ballyore, L. McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown, L. Morrow, L.

Conservative (3 votes)

Bellingham, L. Mackinlay of Richborough, L. Randall of Uxbridge, L.

Non-affiliated (1 vote)

Hoey, B.

Noes

Labour (79 votes)

Adams of Craigielea, B. Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent, B. Anderson of Swansea, L. Armstrong of Hill Top, B. Ashton of Upholland, B. Bach, L. Bassam of Brighton, L. Beckett, B. Berkeley, L. Blackstone, B. Blake of Leeds, B. Blower, B. Boateng, L. Bradley, L. Browne of Ladyton, L. Bryan of Partick, B. Campbell-Savours, L. Chandos, V. Clark of Windermere, L. Coaker, L. Crawley, B. Davidson of Glen Clova, L. Donaghy, B. Drake, B. Eatwell, L. Faulkner of Worcester, L. Gale, B. Golding, B. Hacking, L. Hain, L. Hannett of Everton, L. Hanson of Flint, L. Harman, B. Hayman of Ullock, B. Healy of Primrose Hill, B. Hollick, L. Howarth of Newport, L. Hughes of Stretford, B. Jones of Whitchurch, B. Kennedy of Cradley, B. Kennedy of Southwark, L. Lennie, L. Leong, L. Liddle, L. Lister of Burtersett, B. Livermore, L. Mann, L. McConnell of Glenscorrodale, L. McIntosh of Hudnall, B. McNicol of West Kilbride, L. Merron, B. Monks, L. Morgan of Drefelin, B. Morgan of Huyton, B. Murphy of Torfaen, L. O'Grady of Upper Holloway, B. Pitkeathley, B. Quin, B. Ramsay of Cartvale, B. Ramsey of Wall Heath, B. Ritchie of Downpatrick, B. Sherlock, B. Sikka, L. Smith of Basildon, B. Smith of Malvern, B. Stansgate, V. Stevenson of Balmacara, L. Taylor of Bolton, B. Taylor of Stevenage, B. Tunnicliffe, L. Warwick of Undercliffe, B. Watson of Invergowrie, L. Watson of Wyre Forest, L. Wheeler, B. Wilcox of Newport, B. Winston, L. Winterton of Doncaster, B. Young of Norwood Green, L. Young of Old Scone, B.

Liberal Democrat (8 votes)

Beith, L. Brinton, B. Oates, L. Scott of Needham Market, B. Shipley, L. Suttie, B. Wallace of Tankerness, L. Walmsley, B.

Crossbench (8 votes)

Aberdare, L. Berkeley of Knighton, L. Clancarty, E. Freyberg, L. Hampton, L. Patel, L. St John of Bletso, L. de Clifford, L.

Plaid Cymru (1 vote)

Smith of Llanfaes, B.

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York: July 4-6, 2024

I fucking love York.

Of all the places I visited, York felt most like home and made my heart sing in a way I can't quite explain. It may be because most of my English ancestors lived in Yorkshire, but I think it has more to do with the overall vibe of the town, and the fact that there are city walls you can run around on.

The City Wall Trail is so fun. There's something really exciting about walking around these old stone walls to get from place to place, above the traffic and the noise and the tourists. Especially as an American, too, the fact that there aren't guardrails on one side makes me feel especially rebellious in a delicious way to walk upon them.

I visited York not just because I have ancestry in the region, but because my colleague and dear friend Tal lives there. In fact, she grew up there. And worked as a tour guide there. And I was incredibly fortunate that she rode her ebike an hour and a half from the exurbs into the city to hang out with me and show me around. We met on Dame Judi Dench Walk:

We ran around the walls, and my other favorite area, the Shambles:

The Shambles made me feel like I'd stepped into a Renaissance Festival, or a fantasy novel. The architecture that sort of leans into the middle of the narrow cobbled roads, the fun little shops...it feels like stepping out of time.

Tal taught me some of York's history, including a horrible antisemitic massacre in one of the castle towers in 1190, and the fact that Constantine was crowned emperor near the cathedral there in 306 AD.

The cathedral, incidentally, is stunning:

We also stumbled upon this plaque, and this was my chance to teach Tal something of the local history, because she hadn't heard of Anne Lister. My partner Niall and I had watched the show Gentleman Jack, which is based on Anne Lister's life.

(I'm a little salty that this plaque's language was changed to remove "gender non-conforming" and, curiously "entrepreneur," due to some TERF uproar, though.)

We also visited some of the local pubs. While we were walking around, I remembered one of my goals for the trip had been to drink in at least one of the Grand Pubs of Yorkshire from the song of that name I used to sing in my old band. We found one of those pubs still exists in York proper: Ye Olde Starre Inn ("The Star" in the song).

We went there, I ordered a shot of Jameson, and I drank a toast to my departed bandmate Stringalong Jim, who used to sing the lead on that song.

(Side note: As an American, I was constantly in awe of experiences like drinking in a pub that's been around since 1644.)

Another pub we visited had a sign that made me very, very sad as a Misbehavin' Maiden:

(That's literally all we do!)

Tal and I had Yorkshire pudding with roast beef for lunch, but our dinner was truly spectacular. She took me to Delrio's, an Italian place where she used to work. They still had up some of the signs she had lettered many years ago! The fiocchi formaggio e pere, described on the menu as "Parcels of pasta filled with cheese and pear served in a creamy basil sauce," was toe-curlingly delicious. The food was so good, in fact, I returned the next night to eat there a second time, where I had the tagliatelle al tartufo: "Tagliatelle with wild mushrooms, truffle and cream."

One of my other food loves discovered around this point in the trip are these amazing custard cream cookies, which are stupid cheap at Marks & Spencer (under £1 for an entire pack). I brought two packages home with me, that's how good they are.

Finally, here are a couple business names that made me giggle in York:

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Y'ALL THE NEXT WALL-E AU CHAPTER IS DONE!!!

So you guys remember when I made that post saying I'd just upload the first thousand words of this chapter, I ended up getting a load of inspiration and then wrote the whole thing lol

Burnout is gone babyyy

Anyway more of this nonsense with these idiots <33