Adele has revealed that her postnatal depression was so severe that she’s now “scared” to contemplate having another child.

One of the reasons Adele has become one of the world's most-loved celebrities is that she's always been endearingly honest.

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Well, now she's used this honesty to talk about her experience of postnatal depression – and how the illness has made her "scared" to contemplate having more children.

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Speaking to Vanity Fair, Adele said:

I’m too scared. I had really bad postpartum depression after I had my son, and it frightened me. I didn’t talk to anyone about it. I was very reluctant. My boyfriend said I should talk to other women who were pregnant, and I said: "Fuck that, I ain’t hanging around with a fucking bunch of mothers." Then, without realising it, I was gravitating towards pregnant women and other women with children, because I found they’re a bit more patient. One day I said to a friend: "I fucking hate this," and she just burst into tears and said: "I fucking hate this, too."

Via vanityfair.com

She went on to say that she felt confused by the illness, as her experience of postnatal depression didn't appear in the form she'd heard about – and at times, she feared she'd made "the worst mistake of her life" in having a child.

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