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In a new cover interview with British Vogue, reality star and beauty mogul Kylie Jenner bravely opened up about her experience with post-partum depression after welcoming both her children into the world; a daughter, Stormi, now 6, and a son, Aire, now 2.
The 27-year-old Kardashians star said both bouts of depression lasted about a year, but that it was post her son’s birth that it hit her the hardest. Weighing on her mind was the pressure to name her son, whom she says was initially called “Knight”.
“It hit me differently both times,” she explains. “Probably with my son it was major baby blues, so I was just so emotional over things that I probably wouldn’t be that emotional about. On the phone with my mum all day hysterically crying, saying, ‘I can’t figure out his name.’”
“When I met him, he was just the most beautiful thing to me and I couldn’t believe just how perfect he was,” she continued. “I felt like such a failure that I couldn’t name him. He deserved so much more than that. It just really triggered me.”
Jenner, who split from her children’s father rapper Travis Scott and is now dating actor Timotheé Chalamet, says she’s at a place in her life where things fell more settled.
“I’m finally feeling like myself again,” she adds. “I think, being pregnant, I didn’t have time to figure out even some of the little things in my life, and then postpartum lasted a year. Mentally, it’s really hard. Hormonally, it’s really hard.”
“No matter what I’m going through or what I look like or what the internet writes about me that day,” she added, “I come home and my kids just love me unconditionally. They’re just obsessed with me and that’s taught me to walk through life a little easier. I’m like, ‘OK, well I have these little humans at home that need me and love me and think I’m the most perfect person in the world, so I don’t really need validation from outside sources.’”
It’s not the first time Jenner has spoken about her struggles with post-partum depression. A couple of years ago, she gave an interview with Vanity Fair Italy and while she admitted at the time that the blues felt like they would never end, she had this advice other mums:
“The risk is to miss all the most beautiful things of motherhood,” she explained. “I would tell those women not to overthink things and to live all the emotions of that moment to the fullest. I know, in those moments you think that it will never pass, that your body will never be the same as before, that you will never be the same.”
