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Chrissy Teigen opens up about postpartum depression: 'The last month has been really tough'

‘Sometimes reaching for your medication is like picking up a 60kg dumbbell,’ says model

Thursday 05 March 2020 11:08 GMT

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Chrissy Teigen has opened up about suffering from postpartum depression and anxiety, revealing that the last month “has been really tough”.

Speaking to Glamour UK, the model explained she is fundamentally happy but occasionally struggles to take her medication.

“I’ll tell [my husband] John [Legend], ‘Deep down, I know I am happy.’ But I think anyone with anxiety knows it’s physically painful to think about doing things,” Teigen explained.

“Sometimes reaching for your medication is like picking up a 60kg dumbbell that I don’t feel like picking up and I don’t know why.

“But I also know I haven’t been good to myself. I wasn’t managing my pills. I was just taking them when I remembered.”

The mother-of-two added that her “chemistry” was thrown off.

“So, I’m building myself back up. There are times I go to bed at 6.30pm and wake up at 6am and lie in bed just thinking – it’s like you can’t get enough sleep.”

Elsewhere in the interview, the 34-year-old spoke about how having children has impacted her body image, revealing she used to weigh herself three times a day.

“I knew what the scales would say after each meal,” she said.

“I did that for eight years and had this one weight I wanted to be at. That changed with Luna and really changed with Miles [her son, two years old], where it took me a year to be comfortable with my new normal number.”

Teigen also opened up about her decision to have breast implants when she was a 20-year-old swimwear model and how she is considering having them removed.

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”Yeah, I did my boobs when I was about 20 years old. It was more for a swimsuit thing,” she clarified.

“But I want them out now. If I could do one thing, it would be to have a lift.

“I think you’re supposed to replace (implants) every 10 years. But when you have kids you think about (the risks) of surgery and I think, ‘This is not the way I want to die, in boob surgery.”’

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