Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy’s Family Album With Daughters Rowan and Grier: Photos
usmagazine.comBrooke Shields is an accomplished actress, model and author, but her most beloved gig is being a mom.The Suddenly Susan alum shares daughters Rowan (born in May 2003) and Grier (born in April 2006) with husband Chris Henchy, whom she married in 2001.
Though the New York native often shares joyful updates about the family’s life, she’s also been vocal about the difficulties of parenting — and pregnancy.After welcoming Rowan, Shields was open about her battle with postpartum depression, discussing the topic on talk shows and in the memoir Down Came the Rain. “Having my first daughter obliterated me,” the Blue Lagoon actress recalled in her 2014 book, There Was a Little Girl. “It took away all my power.
All of a sudden I was experiencing something so foreign, which I had no response for. I had no resources to rely on. … And with the level of depression I experienced, I was just waiting to figure out how to slip away.
It was so acute. Becoming a mother didn’t ground me at all. At least in the beginning.”As her children got older, the former Lipstick Jungle star wasn’t shy about the harder parts of motherhood. “Every day there’s a new challenge,” the Golden Globe nominee told Entertainment Tonight in February 2017. “My new thing is not screaming and not screaming back at them.
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