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Billie Piper About Her Postnatal Depression

By Devaki

Billie Piper
English actress Billie Piper reveals about her struggle, with the baby blues after her son's birth.

The 27 years-old actress had to undergo a difficult labour which lasted for 26 hours and then an emergency caesarean to have her baby Winston, reveals Piper. She had a harrowing time after five months, when she returned to the work. She came back with the role of a screen prostitute on the hit TV series, 'Secret Diary Of A Call Girl'.

“The doctor said I had post-natal depression," confesses Piper, “Secret Diary was a stressful time. I had started leaving Winston. I was finishing breast-feeding, which is really emotional. I don"t know what warrants postnatal depression," says the actress.

Piper was determined to fight with the disease and refused to take the medications.

“They prescribed pills but I never took them. Pills frighten me. They"re a road to nowhere. I feel I"m too strong in mind and spirit for pills," she says. “I didn"t feel it was that desperate - it was just a bad day," she adds.

Story first published: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 9:44 [IST]