{"id":74745,"date":"2025-05-19T03:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T07:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=74745"},"modified":"2025-06-01T03:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:37:25","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-opens-up-about-postpartum-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/jennifer-lawrence-opens-up-about-postpartum-depression\/74745\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence opens up about postpartum depression"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, Jennifer Lawrence opened up honestly about her experience with postpartum depression and how it influenced her emotionally and creatively. While promoting her new movie Die My Love<\/em>, she said, \u201cThere was not really anything like postpartum,\u201d highlighting how unique and intense that experience is.<\/p>\n

Jennifer explained that postpartum depression feels incredibly isolating, no matter where you are. She related this to the film\u2019s story, where the main character\u2014a young mother named Grace\u2014lives in a remote part of Montana without a community or support system. \u201cExtreme anxiety and extreme depression is isolating no matter where you are. You feel like an alien,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In Die My Love<\/em>, directed by Lynne Ramsay, Jennifer plays Grace, a mother struggling with severe postnatal mental illness. Jennifer shared that when she first read the book the film is based on, she found it heartbreaking but powerful. Since she had just had her first child, the story hit very close to home, and it was tough for her to separate her own feelings from those of the character.<\/p>\n

Jennifer has admired Ramsay\u2019s work for a long time\u2014she was a fan ever since watching Ramsay\u2019s film Ratcatcher<\/em>. Although it seemed unlikely at first, Jennifer and her team decided to pitch the project to Ramsay, and she eventually came on board. Jennifer described landing the role as surreal.<\/p>\n

Lynne Ramsay, known for You Were Never Really Here<\/em>, returned to Cannes with Die My Love<\/em>, which is one of the few films in the 2025 lineup still available for sale. Jennifer revealed she was about five months pregnant during filming and found the role very personal.<\/p>\n

She explained that Grace\u2019s story explores both the hormonal ups and downs after childbirth and a deep identity crisis\u2014Grace struggles with who she is as a mother, wife, and woman. The character feels like she\u2019s fading away, haunted by a sense of disappearing.<\/p>\n

Now a mother of two, Jennifer said having children has changed her life completely\u2014both emotionally and professionally. \u201cHaving children changes your whole life. It\u2019s brutal and incredible. It affects every decision I make: if I\u2019m working, when I\u2019m working, where I\u2019m working. My job is very emotional, and my kids have opened up the world to me,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n

She even joked, \u201cI highly recommend having kids if you want to be an actor,\u201d highlighting how becoming a parent has deepened her connection to her craft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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