One of my favorite actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and I have something in common: We have both experience postpartum depression...me in 2004 after my 6 year old son Kavon and Gwyneth after the birth of her son Moses in 2006.
She always seems so bubbly, but the sun doesn't always shine on casa Paltrow-Martin. The "Country Strong" star says her husband, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, first recognized her postpartum depression.
"About four months into it, Chris came to me and said, 'Something's wrong, something's wrong,'" she reveals in an interview in the February issue of Good Housekeeping magazine (via People.com.) "But Chris identifed it, and that sort of burst the bubble."
Continuing the discussion in Good Housekeeping, Paltrow says: "I felt like a zombie. I couldn't access my heart. I couldn't access my emotions. I couldn't connect."
Paltrow -- who says she was on "cloud nine" following the 2004 birth of daughter Apple -- was in denial about how serious it all was.
"I thought postpartum depression meant you were sobbing everyday and incapable of looking after a child," she says. "But there are different shades of it and depths of it, which is why I think it's so important for women to talk about it. It was a trying time. I felt like a failure."
But British rocker hubby Martin -- who taught her how to play the guitar for her role as a Faith Hill-esque superstar in "Country Song" -- was there to help her through it. "I can depend on him," she says. "He makes me laugh. He's really appreciate of me. You know, he makes me feel special."
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