Jennifer Lawrence reveals she felt ‘like an alien’ during ‘isolating’ postpartum experience
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Jennifer Lawrence on her ‘isolating’ postpartum experience
- Jennifer Lawrence described her postpartum experience after having two children as "isolating."
- In her new film, Die, My Love, Lawrence portrays a mother dealing with postpartum psychosis, a severe mental illness.
- Lawrence revealed the difficulty in separating her own postpartum experience from her character's, highlighting the isolating nature of postpartum anxiety and depression.
- She filmed Die, My Love while five months pregnant with her second child, and acknowledged how having children has significantly impacted her life and creative work.
- Lawrence encouraged aspiring actors to have children, despite the challenges, emphasising the positive transformative effect on both life and creativity.