Carey Mulligan Opens Up About Her Experience With Postpartum Depression After Giving Birth to Daughter Evelyn

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Pushing through. Carey Mulligan opened up about her struggle with postpartum depression — and how she almost wasn’t able to do press for her 2015 film, Suffragette.“It was either cancel the whole thing or just get on and do it,” Mulligan, 37, told Vanity Fair in an interview published on Monday, October 10, about her experience with the mental health issue after giving birth to daughter Evelyn Grace in October 2015. “And that — and a combination of lots of other things, and help and support from everyone around me — was my light.”Shortly after giving birth, Mulligan — who shares daughter Evelyn, and son Wilfred, with husband Marcus Mumford — began feeling the effects of postpartum.

When she was asked to return to work for Suffragette, however, she found a way to heal.Portraying New York Times writer Meghan Twohey in the upcoming drama She Said, the Great Gatsby star revealed that she and the Illinois native, 45, were able to bond over their mutual experience with PPD.“Megan and I talked about that,” the Drive actress shared during her October 10 interview. “We both shared what we had both been through, like so many women have been through.”Twohey, for her part, praised Mulligan for the nuance she brought to the role and her sensitivity while capturing the complexity of the struggles a person faces after giving birth.“I felt like she really spent a lot of time with me,” the writer told Vanity Fair. “[She] studied me and my family in a way in which she was able to not just portray a sense of me, but to portray this really personal and even difficult time in my life, in a very accurate and respectful way.”Us Weekly broke the news in June 2015 that the England native and Mumford, 35, were expecting their first child three