Aug 31, 2026 · 22 min · 8 segments
Hayden Panettiere helped bring postpartum depression into the national conversation more than a decade ago. Her story reminds us that postpartum depression doesn't always look the way people…
So the first one that we gotta talk about, Whitney, that came out of nowhere on August 16th, was us finding out, and especially this generation of moms, like Hayden Panettiere's death.
And people are like, my husband's like, "What is this? Why are you guys kinda talking about this?"
I know she was on, like, a TV show, and I was like, "Well, 'cause she, in a lot of this generation of moms' eyes, back in 2015, was the first celebrity-
And you know, I really couldn't tell you until, until I started digging, like, what she was in, but I knew I recognized her.
And so aside from the things that she acted in, I realized she was the person who Neutrogena pulled their ad sponsorship, brand partnership, whatever you wanna call that, because she spoke up about her struggles with postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety.
And what a slap in the face that is to moms, because to me, and listeners, y'all, y'all can disagree with me, okay? I don't even know that this is therapist Whitney as much as it is just Whitney, is that it's like she got punished for saying that she was struggling and needed help, and she was outspoken about it.
And they said, "Ooh, that's not the look we're going for, so we're gonna cut the deal."
That's all I can think was you, you kicked her while she was down, instead of saying, "Well, how can we help you? How can this sponsorship help you get what you need?" They said, "We're cutting it." And that-
So the first one that we gotta talk about, Whitney, that came out of nowhere on August 16th, was us finding out, and especially this generation of moms, like Hayden Panettiere's death.
And people are like, my husband's like, "What is this? Why are you guys kinda talking about this?"
I know she was on, like, a TV show, and I was like, "Well, 'cause she, in a lot of this generation of moms' eyes, back in 2015, was the first celebrity-
And you know, I really couldn't tell you until, until I started digging, like, what she was in, but I knew I recognized her.
And so aside from the things that she acted in, I realized she was the person who Neutrogena pulled their ad sponsorship, brand partnership, whatever you wanna call that, because she spoke up about her struggles with postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety.
And what a slap in the face that is to moms, because to me, and listeners, y'all, y'all can disagree with me, okay? I don't even know that this is therapist Whitney as much as it is just Whitney, is that it's like she got punished for saying that she was struggling and needed help, and she was outspoken about it.
And they said, "Ooh, that's not the look we're going for, so we're gonna cut the deal."
That's all I can think was you, you kicked her while she was down, instead of saying, "Well, how can we help you? How can this sponsorship help you get what you need?" They said, "We're cutting it." And that-
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