Hayden Panettiere Recalls ‘Heartbreaking’ Postpartum Depression Battle
Hayden Panettiere is opening up about navigating postpartum depression after the arrival of her daughter more than a decade ago. “I had it like all planned out in my head, and as the plans just collapsed, the postpartum came, and I was completely out of control, and suddenly I was this … I was nowhere near the mom that I had sworn to myself that one day I was going to be and that was devastating,” Panettiere, 36, said in the latest Us Weekly cover story , while promoting her new memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning. She continued, “That was devastating. [It] was heartbreaking. I’m such a perfectionist in so many ways that being at least a good mother was just so, so important to me. And such a crushing blow when I was incapable of being, an even semi-decent mom, in my mind.” Panettiere became a first-time mom in December 2014 when she and ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko welcomed daughter Kaya Evdokia Klitschko. The former couple later split in August 2018, and Panettiere made the tough ...