Brooke Shields Attempted Suicide Due To Post-Natal Depression  Brooke Shields With Hubby Chris Henchy |
Hollywood actress Brooke Shields has disclosed that she had attempted suicide after she gave birth to her first baby as she was under severe post-natal depression.
Shields, who has two beautiful daughters, six-year-old Rowan and three-year-old Grier from her husband Chris Henchy, had been so much under severe post-natal depression after her first baby that she felt that her life did not carry any meaning.
"I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her and I couldn't sing to her and I couldn't smile at her... All I wanted to do was disappear and die”, said the former model about Rowan's birth.
"I should not exist. The baby would be better off without me. Life was never going to get better - so I better just go," she added.
Shields was put on anti-depressants for a while, but now the 44-year-old actress has stopped as she is fine now.
"I almost did not resist driving my car straight into a wall on the side of the freeway. My baby was in the back seat and that even p****d me off because I thought she's even ruining this for me. I just wanted to drive into the wall and my friend stayed on the phone with me until I got home safely," she said.
She later called her doctor to ask for more help, and was eventually diagnosed with a chemical imbalance.
"I learned what was going on inside my body and what was going on inside my brain. I learned I wasn't doing anything wrong to feel that way. That it was actually out of my control," she said
