Nikki Bella has a message for her fellow moms.
The Total Bellas star has been candid about her struggle with postpartum depression after welcoming her son Matteo with fiancé Artem Chigvintsev on July 31—even revealing she had “a massive breakdown” weeks after giving birth—and on the Tuesday, Dec. 22 episode of Ashley Graham‘s Pretty Big Deal podcast, Nikki made it clear that she wants to remain that way: open and honest.
“What I’ve realized is, as moms, we don’t talk about that enough because I think we feel like everyone then automatically thinks we hate our baby if we say we have postpartum depression, which, that’s not it at all,” Nikki explained alongside her identical twin sister Brie Bella. “It’s totally the battle within yourself, within your partner [or] significant other. Especially, I think, for career women.”
The former WWE star continued, “We go from like these major careers and then we’re here. And then I’m looking in the mirror and then I think us, in the spotlight, we have so much pressure on us to get back to where we were in a short amount of time.”
Ah, “the snapback,” as Ashley described it. “It’s bulls–t.”
