Britney Spears Opens Up About Her 'Severe' Postpartum Depression

perezhilton.com:

Britney Spears really struggled with postpartum depression. In her new memoir The Woman in Me, out on Tuesday, the pop star opened up about the mental health challenges she faced after welcoming her sons, Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17, with her ex-husband Kevin Federline.

According to an excerpt from CBS News, the Baby One More Time artist pointed out times were very different: Looking back, she credits a lot of the struggles she was experiencing in her stardom to undiagnosed postpartum depression: If only she’d been able to get help sooner, maybe things would’ve been so different?? Related: Britney SLAMS Family For Capitalizing Off Her Meltdown’ In Books! A unique complicating factor to Brit’s journey into motherhood is the fact she believes her condition was made worse by the incessant media attention she received in the mid-2000s (plus all the other mental health challenges she was facing).

Things came to a boiling point when she dramatically shaved her head in 2007, noting she was “out of my mind with grief” back then, writing per the New York Times: The 41-year-old continued: Wow.

No wonder she was depressed. She had so much going on and very little support… As we all know, Britney was placed into a court-ordered conservatorship the next year, something she eventually “went along” with so she could be “reunited with my boys.” If only she could’ve gotten help without going to such drastic measures.