Paltrow recalls 'dark' postnatal depression

Gwyneth Paltrow has revealed that she suffered badly from postnatal depression.

The actress said that she found it very difficult when her son Moses was born in 2006.

In her GOOP newsletter, Paltrow wrote: "When my son Moses came into the world in 2006, I expected to have another period of euphoria following his birth, much the way I had when my daughter was born two years earlier.

"Instead I was confronted with one of the darkest and most painfully debilitating chapters of my life. For about five months I had what I can see in hindsight as postnatal depression.

"I didn't know I had it until after it was over. I just didn't know what was wrong with me. I felt really out of my body. I felt really disconnected. I felt really down. I felt pessimistic."