Ireland Baldwin Says She’s ‘Struggled to Adapt’ Through ‘Difficult’ Pregnancy: ‘I’m a Goblin’

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Doing her best. Ireland Baldwin opened up about her pregnancy journey — and got candid about the physical and mental health struggles she’s faced along the way.“Pregnancy is hard.

It takes so much out of you. I wasn’t ready for that. I’ve always wanted a baby with the right person. I grew up with a very jaded view of what love really looked like and I always wanted to have a child of my own with someone who would treat us right and love us unconditionally,” Ireland, 27 — whose parents are Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger — wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, January 18. “I underestimated just how hard pregnancy would be on my mind and my body.

Being someone who deals with extreme health anxiety on a daily basis, pregnancy turned things into high gear. I’ve struggled to adapt to these changes.”The New York Film Academy alum, who revealed in December 2022 that she and boyfriend RAC were expecting their first child, explained that she wasn’t sharing her difficulties “for sympathy” but because she’s “personally found a lot of comfort in unfamiliar corners of social media during this time in my life.”Baldwin added that finding kindred spirits through the internet is especially important after watching loved ones “fade away or not know how to relate to you anymore,” calling herself just a “drinking buddy” and a “good time” for some of her former friends.“This s—t is hard.

When people expect you to be glowing and angelic and in a constant state of bliss … it’s unrealistic sometimes,” she wrote.The California native noted that “everyone has a different experience” when it comes to pregnancy, but her own journey has felt like “mental warfare.”“I feel like my brain and thoughts are going to war every single day,” she explained. “I’m