While you are on“Not Skinny But Not Fat,”Ashley Tisdale spoke about her personal experiences with anxiety, including postpartum anxiety. However, she said that despite these difficulties, she wasn’t anxious during pregnancy. She shared the following: “Anxiety was perfect with pregnancy. I was fine after I had her, and then I feel like I had a little bit of postpartum stuff happen. So, it kind of got bad again over the last couple of months, but I went back to my tools … and it’s helped a lot.”
Tisdale shared her motherhood story earlier in the episode. She shared. “You can never go back to who you once were, which is amazing and different, but trying to get comfortable with that and your body again, and your hormones are regulating. It’s a lot.”She also spoke out about the challenges of trying to raise a baby while simultaneously healing her body.
Tisdale had previously spoken out about her mental health in an interview with theNew York Post. She also explained that she didn’t realize she had anxiety or depression when she first started the interview. “It’s about being good to yourself and starting with self-love,”She said. “It took me a long time to get there and to really appreciate myself — to have compassion for myself, to talk to myself in a loving manner — and I think that [others] can get there too. That’s the most important thing in living a non-toxic life.”
Please contact us if you or someone you care about needs mental health support.Crisis Text Lineby texting HOME to 741741, call theNational Alliance on Mental Illnesshelpline at 1-800-950-NAMI (6264), or visit theNational Institute of Mental Health website.