Ivanka trump opens up to Dr Oz about depression
Ivanka Trump revealed in a television interview that she struggled with postpartum depression after the births of her three children.
During an interview with Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr Oz, President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, who also serves as his senior adviser, described the period after the birth of each of her three children as a “very challenging emotional time”. “I felt like I was not living up to my potential as a parent or as an entrepreneur and executive,” she said during the interview, which will air in full today.
Trump, 35, and her husband, Jared Kushner, 36, have three children: Arabella, 6, Joseph, 3, and Theodore, 1. Theodore was born in March 2016, in the midst of the 2016 Republican primaries, during which Trump often hit the campaign trail with her father.
The week after Theodore was born, she introduced her father at a rally Island.
In the wideranging interview, Trump discusses her role in the White House and her efforts to improve the lives of working women.
About one in nine women experience postpartum depression, according to research from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms include anger and sadness, withdrawing from loved ones, feeling disconnected from your baby and worried you will hurt your baby, according to the CDC.
“I had such easy pregnancies that in some ways the juxtaposition hit me even harder,” Trump told Oz.
Postpartum depression does not only affect mothers. in Long