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Carey Mulligan is opening up astir her acquisition with postpartum depression.

After welcoming girl Evelyn Grace in 2015 with husband Marcus Mumford, the actress found that returning to work—specifically, doing property for her film Suffragette—helped her get on a way to healing.

"It was either cancel the full happening oregon conscionable get connected and bash it," she precocious told Vanity Fair. "And that—and a operation of tons of different things, and assistance and enactment from everyone astir me—was my light."

Portraying New York Times writer Megan Twohey in the upcoming movie She Said, Carey said she bonded with the existent beingness writer implicit their shared postpartum journeys.

"Megan and I talked astir that," she continued. "We some shared what we had some been through, similar truthful galore women person been through."

Megan also praised Carey for approaching the relation with sensitivity and care, peculiarly the scenes that captured her struggles aft giving birth.

While Carey—who besides shares son Wilfred, 5, with the Mumford & Sons frontman—typically remains backstage astir her household life, she did antecedently stock that being a ma has fixed her a caller outlook, some personally and professionally.

"What does motherhood change? Well, your full life—it's undeniable—it changes everything," she told U.K. mag Baby in 2018. "As regards my work, I don't cognize if motherhood is ever the archetypal thought connected my caput erstwhile I work a script, but I would fishy it's altered my attitude."