3 December 2020 Brooke Shields I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I’ve ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn’t look at her. I couldn’t hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields What does good in bed mean to me? When I’m sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup – that’s good in bed.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields I’ve never found therapy to be a sign of weakness I’ve found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields My father’s death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn’t happen.
3 December 2020 Brooke Shields I think I’m going to have to live vicariously through my daughter’s rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
