21 Celebrities Who Struggled With Depression

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11. KENDRA WILKINSON

Kendra Wilkinson is best known as a former Playboy playmate and one of Hugh Hefner’s three girlfriends. She appeared on the reality-television show The Girls Next Door alongside her fellow playmates. The show aired on E! and documented the life at the Playboy Mansion. She later had her own reality show, simply named Kendra.

In 2009, Wilkinson married the Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett and became pregnant soon after. She gave birth to a baby boy named Hank IV and the family moved to Indianapolis as Baskett started playing for the Colts. As she explained in an interview in 2009, she suffered from serious post-partum depression following the birth of her son. For days, she wouldn’t shower or brush her teeth and hair and her own appearance made her depressed. She felt pressured to regain her famous pre-pregnancy figure, which was too much for her. She also felt isolated in Indianapolis, away from family and friends. She eventually got better and decided to be open about her depression since it affects many new mothers and needs to be talked about.

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