by Carolyn Robertson posted in Parenting

Chrissy Teigen may be an "open book," but it turns out she's been carrying around a very big secret since giving birth to her daughter Luna last year. In an essay penned for Glamour magazine, the model mom finally reveals that she's been suffering from postpartum depression.
Chrissy Teigen has PPD" If you follow her on social media, you may find this hard to believe. She's the kind of person who seems to radiate a love of life. She's funny, happy, sometimes raunchy, and always real.
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She's also battling serious depression and anxiety.
Chrissy, who tried for years to have a baby with her husband John Legend before Luna finally came along, admits that even she struggled to accept her PPD diagnosis, writing, "I had everything I needed to be happy. And yet, for much of the last year, I felt unhappy. What basically everyone around me -- but me -- knew up until December was this: I have postpartum depression. How can I feel this way when everything is so great" I?ve had a hard time coming to terms with that." Despite the fact that we hear a lot more about PPD these days than we used to, there are still a lot of myths and misconceptions surrounding what it really looks like. One by one, Chrissy tears these down by sharing her own very personal story.
1. PPD means you want to harm your baby

"Growing up in the nineties, I associated postpartum d...