“I felt like a failure” Accomplished actress and musician Gwyneth Paltrow, seen here performing at the Annual Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, recently revealed that she suffered from postpartum depression for a number of months after giving birth to her second child in 2006. Said Paltrow, “I felt like a zombie. … I couldn’t connect. … I thought it meant I was a terrible mother and person. … I felt like a failure.”