Jennifer Lawrence Opens up About Postpartum: 'It's Extremely Isolating'
- Jennifer Lawrence returned to Cannes, France, on May 17, 2025, to premiere the film Die, My Love, portraying a woman with postpartum psychosis.
- Her openness about postpartum stems from motherhood, as she and husband Cooke Maroney, married in 2019, have two children including a son born in 2022.
- Lawrence spoke about the difficulty of separating her own experiences from her character’s and described postpartum depression as extremely isolating with symptoms like intrusive thoughts and anxiety.
- Postpartum depression affects up to one in eight women and causes symptoms such as withdrawal, excessive crying, anxiety, anger, and self-doubt, according to the CDC.
- Her performance and remarks highlight the emotional challenges of motherhood and underline postpartum’s impact on her life and creative work.
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Jennifer Lawrence opens up about postpartum: 'It's extremely isolating'
JB Lacroix/FilmMagic Jennifer Lawrence is getting candid about the challenges of postpartum and motherhood while promoting her new film Die My Love at the Cannes Film Festival. During a press conference for the upcoming thriller, which follows a new mother’s descent into madness, the Oscar winner reflected on how the role hit close to home. “As a mother, it was really hard to separate what I would do as opposed to what she would do. And it was j…
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