Singer Anne-Marie Says She Didn’t Want to Ask for Help As a New Mom

Singer and songwriter Anne-Marie says she did not ask for assist as a brand new mother as a result of she did not need to seem to be she could not cope.

Throughout an look on Tuesday’s episode of “Mad, Unhappy, and Unhealthy with Paloma Religion,” Anne-Marie mirrored on her back-to-back pregnancies and her difficult postpartum experiences.

The singer, identified for songs like “2002” and “Rockabye,” shares two youngsters together with her husband, British rapper Slowthai. She welcomed her daughter in February 2024 and her son in Might 2025.

“I feel with my first, I did not know what I used to be doing,” Anne-Marie advised podcast host Paloma Religion. “I simply was like, I do not know the best way to be a mother, and I assumed it might simply come, as a result of everybody tells you that. However I used to be like, no, it hasn’t come to me. So what do I do?”

Anne-Marie stated she was afraid that asking for help would replicate poorly on her.

“I did not need to ask anybody for assist or inform anybody that, as a result of I did not need them to suppose that I could not do it, and I used to be a nasty mother or I did not have the pure intuition or the motherly factor,” she stated. “So I simply grin and beared it for a 12 months and did not get any assist. Had no assist in the course of the day.”

As a substitute, she relied on an evening nanny, however breastfeeding meant she was waking up extra usually to pump than her child was to feed.

“I positively have struggled after which clearly, bought pregnant as I used to be breastfeeding, so did not have an opportunity to cease,” Anne-Marie stated, including that her physique “began altering once more” shortly.

Her second being pregnant got here with a wave of well being problems, together with gestational diabetes and anemia, however the postpartum expertise after her son was born felt completely different.

“Weirdly, as a result of I might accomplished it earlier than, he is like therapeutic me alongside his life, as a result of he is making me really feel like I can do it,” Anne-Marie stated. “And in addition, plus, I’ve requested for assist this time.”

Anne-Marie is amongst a number of celebrities who’ve been candid about postpartum struggles.

In a March interview with Us Weekly, Ashley Tisdale stated she felt “robbed” of her first expertise as a mom on account of postpartum melancholy.

“With the second, you simply really feel a lot extra assured,” Tisdale stated.

Hailey Bieber advised Vogue in Might that she struggled with postpartum physique dysmorphia after giving beginning.

“You are not the identical individual that you simply had been earlier than. You modify head to toe. And I feel there was a minute the place I saved actually hyper-​fixating on getting again to what I used to be. After which I needed to undergo that acceptance of, I am not going again. So it is actually about how do I need to transfer ahead? Who do I need to be?” Bieber stated.