Jennifer Lawrence says she struggled with postpartum anxiety: 'I just thought every time he was sleeping he was dead'

• Jennifer Lawrence says she experienced postpartum anxiety after giving birth to her second kid. • "I just thought every time he was sleeping he was dead," the "Hunger Games" star said.' • She said Zurzuvae, an oral medication approved for postpartum depression, helped ease her symptoms.

Jennifer Lawrence says she struggled with postpartum anxiety after giving birth to her second child.

"I just thought every time he was sleeping he was dead," Lawrence told The New Yorker on Monday. "I thought he cried because he didn't like his life, or me, or his family. I thought I was doing everything wrong, and that I would ruin my children."

The "Hunger Games" star has two sons with her husband, Cooke Maroney. She welcomed her first child in 2022 and her second one earlier this year.

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