Brooke Shields Admits Having Suicidal Thoughts Due to Post-Partum Depression!

Brooke Shields

Giving birth is not always about happiness. Sometimes the newly mothers suffer post-partum depression which may be harder than it sounds. Brooke Shields is one of the mothers who has suffered of post-partum depression going to that point where she was having suicidal thoughts. "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 remembers about those days while receiving an honor at the Hope for Depression Research foundation.
"We think and we feel that we should just be able to handle it on our own. I've always been strong enough to get through every single difficult situation in my life. I grew up in an addictive household. My mother [Teri] had acute alcoholism. It's in my blood. I was never going to be the one to succumb to it", the 44 years old  actress said. Eventually she went to the doctor and received medical help after being 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 added.
Brooke Shields is mom to two girls, Rowan, 6, and Grier, 3.