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24th Aug 2018

Chrissy Teigen just made a very important point about postnatal depression

'What people don’t know is that sometimes it takes time to kick in.'

Anna O'Rourke

Chrissy Teigen just made a very important point about postnatal depression

Chrissy Teigen has never held back on her battle with postnatal depression.

The star previously revealed that she suffered after the birth of her first child, Luna, in 2016.

“I had everything I needed to be happy. And yet, for much of the last year, I felt unhappy,” she wrote in an essay for Glamour last year.

“Most days were spent on the exact same spot on the couch and rarely would I muster up the energy to make it upstairs for bed.”

Now, three months after welcoming her second child, son Miles, she has admitted that she’s worried about having to face postnatal depression again.

Speaking to Yahoo!, she acknowledged that the illness can take a while to manifest after giving birth.

“That’s what I’m still wondering now, honestly

“I’m three months out with Miles. And when I hit that point with Luna, it was at this time. Around three months.

“I think what people don’t know is that sometimes it takes time to kick in. You just don’t know what’s gonna happen.”

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Chrissy continued that this time she’d be more prepared as she’d recognise the symptoms.

“I don’t know what next week is gonna be like. You take it day by day.

“I feel like at least now if it does happen, I’ll know it upon the first time I feel it. Rather than wondering for so long why I was feeling like that.”