"Nashville" star Hayden Panettiere has checked herself into a treatment center to manage what many mothers experience after giving birth. It's the same condition her character on the TV show is also going through—postpartum depression.
According to People, the actress' representatives confirmed that Panettiere has sought a professional's help for postpartum depression after giving birth to daughter Kaya Evodokia, with fiancé Wladimir Klitschko, 10 months ago.
The TV star was very vocal about her condition and even talked about it in an interview on the show "Live! with Kelly and Michael" in December 2014.
"There's a lot of misunderstanding, and there's a lot of people out there that think that it's not real, that it's not true, that it's something that's made up in their minds, you know, it's hormones," she said in the interview, according to The Washington Post.
"They brush it off. It's something that's completely uncontrollable. And it's really painful, and it's really scary, and women need a lot of support."
In August, Hayden talked to Entertainment Tonight about understanding the struggle not only because she is also experiencing it, but because she had to play the part for "Nashville." Her character, Juliette Barnes, manifested the depression in the middle of the third season and the storyline remains a main theme in the fourth season. However, the difference between her TV life and real life is that Hayden is taking charge of what is really happening to her by seeking help.
"What I thought postpartum was, was wanting to cause your child harm. You know, that really severe version of postpartum," Hayden revealed to the news outlet. "Now, having had a child, I've realized that it can be on quite a large spectrum, and the symptoms don't have to be as in your face and obvious."
"My personality all around was, I wasn't in a great mode....It's not a good feeling but women need to know that there are a lot of different kinds and that they're not alone," Hayden said, in describing the type of postpartum depression she is struggling with.
Apart from seeking treatment, the 26-year-old actress is also addressing the changes in her body after birth, and recently posted that she's finally back to her ideal size on her Twitter account.
Feeling like I'm #finally coming back in to my own body!mother #daughter #blessing #wellworthit @bonesthenskin pic.twitter.com/ZwUDyo4MhF
— hayden panettiere (@haydenpanettier) October 10, 2015
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, some 15 percent of new mothers suffer from this condition and about .2 percent are serious cases.
