Thomas Rhett and Wife Lauren Akins Recall ‘Scary’ Battle With Postpartum Depression: ‘It Felt Like a Hopeless Place’

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Thomas Rhett and wife Lauren Akins opened up about her “scary” experience with postpartum depression after welcoming their fourth daughter, Lillie.“After Lillie, I do remember it was scary for me and there’s not many people you can talk to about that because you don’t want it to sound like you’re gossiping behind your wife’s back,” the country singer, 33, said on a recent episode of his wife’s “Live in Love with Lauren Akins” podcast. “It’s not like you want to call a buddy and be like, ‘Hey, my wife is acting super strange.'”Rhett — who tied the knot with Akins, 33, in October 2012 — revealed he started to notice that his wife wasn’t acting like herself after the pair welcomed their youngest daughter, Lillie, 19 months, in November 2021.“Lifeless is not the right word, but along the lines of dull,” Rhett continued. “It felt like a hopeless place for me.”Before welcoming Lillie, the couple adopted their first daughter Willa, 7, from Uganda in May 2017.

During the adoption process, Akins and Rhett hit a rough patch in their romance as the musician was on tour while his wife was pregnant with their daughter Ada, now 5.

After working through their issues in couples therapy, the pair expanded their family in 2020 with daughter Lennon, 3.In her past experiences, the Live in Love: Growing Together Through Life’s Changes author didn’t experience anything close to postpartum depression until she had Lillie.“After Ada James, our marriage had a falling apart.

After Lennon, the world had a falling apart,” Akins remarked on the June episode, referring to the COVID-19 pandemic. “After Lillie, I had a falling apart.”Akins went on to explain after giving birth to Lillie something was “not normal” compared to birthing her other