Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that she overcame postpartum depression without any medications. Instead, she freed herself (after giving birth to second child, Moses) in alternative ways — like sleep, exercise, and therapy.  

“I had postnatal depression, as you know, after my son. A doctor tried to put me on antidepressants and I thought, if I need them, then yes, I’ll come back to it,” she said during her goop Podcast this week. Though she said, “they are lifesavers for certain people for sure,” she chose to search for alternative therapies.

“I thought, well, what if I went to therapy and I started exercising again, and I stopped drinking alcohol and I just gave myself a period of regeneration and I slept more? I really broke out of it.” She added, “It was really shocking to me because I never thought that I would be a person who got post-natal depression.”