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Jennifer Lawrence bravely opens up about 'isolating' postpartum struggle

Jennifer Lawrence bravely opens up about 'isolating' postpartum struggle

Daily Mirror18-05-2025
Jennifer Lawrence is starring as a mother battling psychosis in her new film Die, My Love, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday
Jennifer Lawrence has bravely opened up about her "extremely isolating" postpartum struggle after first child's birth. The 34-year-old gave birth to her second child earlier this year alongside husband Cooke Maroney and has taken on the role of a mother battling psychosis in her new film Die, My Love, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.
The mum-of-two was speaking at a press conference to promote the film when she said she related with the character's feeling of loneliness. Jennifer gave birth to her first son Cy in 2022 and said she hadn't long given birth when she was asked to be in the film.

She said: "I mean, obviously, as a mother, it was really hard to separate what I would do as opposed to what she would do. It was just heartbreaking. When I first read the book, it was just such a devastating, powerful... Lynne (Ramsay) said it was dreamlike.

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"I had just had my first (baby). And there's not really anything like postpartum. It's extremely isolating, which is so interesting when Lynn (Ramsay) moves this couple into Montana. She doesn't have a community. She doesn't have her people. But the truth is, extreme anxiety and extreme depression is isolated, no matter where you are. You feel like an alien. And so it deeply moved me. I wanted to work with Lynn Ramsey since I saw Rat Catcher."
Jennifer is starring as Grace in the movie who is a new mother whose mental health deteriorates when her marriage crumbles. Twilight star Robert Pattinson plays the husband Jackson.
Jennifer said that since having children of her own she has changed her outlook on her career. She has since described her own experience of motherhood as "brutal and incredible" and said that having children "changes everything".
She said: "It changes your whole life. But it's brutal and incredible. And so not only do they go into every decision of if I'm working, where I'm working, when I'm working. It taught me... I didn't know that I could feel so much. My job has a lot to do with emotion. They've opened up the world to me. It's almost like feeling like a blister or something, so sensitive.
"So they've changed my life, obviously, for the best, and they've changed me creatively. I highly recommend having kids if you want to be an actor." The film Die My Love is described as a horror and a comedy and was directed by Lynne Ramsay.
Jennifer first rose to fame in the 2010s when she starred in the X-Men and Hunger Games series. She has then gone on to be involved in iconic projects such as American Hustle, Joy and Don't Look Up.
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