9 Famous Moms Who Struggled with Postpartum Depression

7. Marie Osmond

Marie Osmond was a perpetually smiling singer and devoted mother of eight. However, she was candid about her severe PPD experience in her 2001 book, Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression. She had a rather public breakdown in 1999 after the birth of her youngest son that went way beyond the baby blues she had experienced before. “I remember walking down the stairs and putting Matthew in the arms of the nanny,” she says. “‘I can’t stay here,’ I told her. ‘There is something wrong, really wrong with me. I have to leave until I figure it out.'” With suicidal thoughts on her mind, she drove away from her family and checked into a hotel. Talking things out with her mother who told her that she, too, had experienced post-natal depression, brought her to her senses and she got the treatment she needed to cope with this debilitating condition.