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Lawrence caught up with PEOPLE exclusively while at the film’s New York City premiere on Nov. 1The actress welcomed a baby boy earlier this year, and is also mom to a 3-year-old son
Jennifer Lawrence is getting candid about her difficult postpartum experience with her second baby.
The actress, 35, caught up with PEOPLE exclusively on the red carpet at the New York City premiere of her new movie, Die My Love, on Saturday, Nov. 1. In the film, she plays a new mom struggling with the weight of motherhood, and she shared that she was able to draw from her own life while tackling the role.
“I didn’t really end up having really bad postpartum [anxiety] until my second [baby],” Lawrence says, noting that she believes the experience provided her with a more nuanced perspective while approaching her most recent project.
“I think that just added another layer,” she explains, adding, ”I mean, I don’t think that you have to have kids to play a parent by any means, but having that information about, you know, what a tiny person needs, and is looking for. Just having that information was helpful.”
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The Oscar winner, who shares son Cy, 3, and a son born earlier this year with husband Cooke Maroney, previously opened up about postpartum anxiety in a recent conversation with The New Yorker.
“I just thought every time he was sleeping he was dead,” she told the outlet of her baby. “I thought he cried because he didn’t like his life, or me, or his family. I thought I was doing everything wrong, and that I would ruin my children.”
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She went on to recall a moment when she started crying while asking ChatGPT a question about breastfeeding.
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“You’re doing the most amazing thing for your baby,” Lawrence recalled the AI tool telling her. “You’re such a loving mother.”
The actress told the outlet she took Zurzuvae, a recently developed drug to treat postpartum depression, which quickly and significantly helped her with her symptoms.
While speaking with PEOPLE at Saturday’s premiere, Lawrence shared that she and her Die My Love costar Robert Pattinson bonded on set over being parents to young children. The Twilight star, 39, welcomed a baby girl with fiancée Suki Waterhouse last year.
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“[We bonded] over our kids because — like any new parent knows — that’s the only thing you want to do is just, like, look at pictures and show people pictures and videos of [your] kids, so that’s what we did,” she recalls.
“And his baby was like brand new, and mine was too,” she adds.
