Brooke Shields can relate to the many women who have suffered from "terrifying" postpartum depression. Shields revealed that she almost crashed her car into a wall on California's 405 freeway after giving birth to her oldest daughter, Rowan, who is now 19. "I thought I was going to drive my car into the wall on the 405," she said in her documentary "Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby." "You see it [happening]. "It has pictures.They rush, if you close your eyes, into your brain." The documentary, which premiered Monday on Hulu, showed that the "Pretty Baby" star was on the phone with her doctor during the situation, and the doctor said, "You’re going back on the medicine immediately." Shields was hesitant to take medication because she thought she could "fix [her]self" but inevitably followed her doctor's recommendations to "get everybody off my back." "It was so bleak," she recalled. "My mother-in-law called me and said I had dead eyes.
I finally said, ‘OK.’" She shared on the "WTF with Marc Maron" podcast she went "cold turkey" and stopped taking her medication prior to the incident on the freeway. "I started just feeling more myself, so I went off … because clearly I was a doctor by that point," Shields admitted.
The "Blue Lagoon" star gave birth to daughter Rowan in 2003. Shields and Chris Henchy welcomed their second daughter, Grier, in 2006.
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