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15 Crazy Celeb Pregnancy And Childrearing Breakdowns

Emotions and hormones can cause anyone to go a little cray-cray.

What is it that we love so much about celebrity breakdowns? A gorgeous, shining star comes crashing down into rehab or a mental health center and we just eat it up. We can't get enough of the gossip!

Do we love these crashing stars because it makes us feel a little better about ourselves? If the most beautiful, richest, and wealthiest people on the planet still can't handle life then us regular folk must be demigods or something!

Still, these celebrities are flashing all over the news left and right about the weight of their stress and we are just waiting for the straw that will break the camel's back. Granted, most of these meltdowns come after a binge era filled with the usual suspects.

Breakdowns surrounding pregnancy are much different, though. Mostly, they are focussed on fears about pregnancy or past experiences, stress affecting the pregnancy, or even the overwhelming sensation that parenthood brings. It's all very real and it's all  very public.

Celebrity mothers aren't the only ones flipping out. On more than one occasion, celebrity dads have theatrically displayed their 15 minutes of freak-out fame in the parenthood spotlight. Granted, usually what moms and dads flip out about are polar opposites, but the meltdown still happens.

No matter if it's Britney shaving her head, Lindsey checking back into rehab, or Charlie going on another rant, it's going to be front page news!

Here are 15 celeb pregnancy breakdowns. Enjoy!

15 Chrissy Teigen Flips Out About Pregnancy Inquiries

We all know Chrissy Teigen as the amazingly gorgeous super model wife of singer John Legend. She's witty, intelligent, and can shut down shamers and trolls faster and with more grace than any other celebrity out there. She's pretty close to being the perfect woman!

We love that she blogs and even cooks, too. What some people don't know is that she struggled with infertility before getting pregnant through IVF with daughter Luna. This was a very difficult struggle as infertility generally is, and became a source of pain and sensitivity for Teigen.

During an interview where she was explaining that she would have many kids had it not been for the struggles, she had this to say during a flip-out moment,

"So, anytime somebody asks me if I'm going to have kids, I'm like, 'One day, you're going to ask that to the wrong girl who's really struggling, and it's going to be really hurtful to them. And I hate that. So, I hate it. Stop asking me!'"

14 Sarah Jessica Parker’s Frantic Shaming Of Paparazzi Who Chased Her Surrogate

If you remember nothing else, remember not to tick off Carrie Bradshaw...err, Sarah Jessica Parker. One other thing about her, don't mess with her family, especially her kids - born or unborn. She will go "mama bear" on you faster than an actual mama bear. And she'll do it in incredibly stylish pumps, no doubt.

Paparazzi soon found this out the hard way. Parker and husband Matthew Broderick wanted desperately to add to their family, but she wasn't able to carry another baby after the birth of her son. So, after much deliberation, the couple decided on surrogacy. With much respect to Parker, she demanded an incredible amount of privacy for the chosen surrogate and even managed to keep her identity a secret for a while.

Eventually they got to her, though. Her phone was hacked, she was chased down, and privacy invaded. This freak out was very called for! Parker kept it PC for the press, but you can imagine what she was feeling!

Here's what she said,

"You understand what stress, worry and fear and being scared can do," Parker said. "She's quite far along in this pregnancy and she's carrying two children... There's simply no excuse for doing this to somebody. It's not acceptable."

13 Eddie Murphy Freaks Out Over Having Eighth Child

It's common knowledge that Eddie Murphy likes to get women pregnant. He does it all the time. If we're counting correctly, he's on his ninth child right now. That makes five mothers in total...that we know about.

You might remember Spice Girl Mel B being one of these mothers a few years back. The only thing is that she claimed Eddie Murphy to be the father, which he vehemently denied. Even after the paternity test came back saying he was most definitely the father, he was still in denial.

It took years for him to settle down from his freakout and connect with his daughter. Not that he's the greatest dad in the world to start with, but he did attempt to make a half-hearted effort. At that point, everyone knew what his freakout had cost him, because his own child remains truly unimpressed with her father.

12 Kim Kardashian Freaks Out Over Pregnancy Troubles Repeating

This will not be the first time you've seen a Kardashian flip out and it will not be the last. We certainly cannot have a complete list of breakdowns without including at least one member of this famed family.

When Kim Kardashian was pregnant with North she had a difficult time. Not only did she have to deliver at 34 weeks, but the reason for the early induction was preeclampsia. In addition to dealing with the stress of early delivery, after North was born she had placenta accrete. This is when the placenta remains attached to the uterus instead of coming out naturally.

Apparently getting it out was not a pretty picture, so you can understand why Kim would freakout just a little during her pregnancy with Saint.

11 Soleil Moon Frye Called Crazy By Friends And Family

Being called cray cray is no small accusation. It can be incredibly insulting, hurtful, and leave you feeling unvalidated and doubting yourself. It just adds so much more stress to your already stress-filled life, which is probably the reason people are throwing those accusations your way in the first place.

Well, try running around after several young children while pregnant (ahem, pregnancy brain is a real thing) and still try to appear like you have it altogether. Chasing kids is not conducive to looking graceful, neat, tidy, or even sane half the time. It's a very involved job job, and it's very, very messy.

So, you can imagine the freakout Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster) had when her friends and family thought she was losing it. She's mentioned about the situation that all her friends with 3 or 4 kids totally understood the craziness, but everyone else thought she was crazy. Eventually, she just learned to ignore them and focus on her kids.

10 Jon Gosselin Is Ousted By Kids Because Of His Downward Spiral

The obsession we experienced during the "Jon and Kate Plus 8" years has undoubtedly subsided. Still, most of us like to keep tabs on the family members. In the years following the painfully public divorce, both parents had their share of breakdowns.

While Kate was focused on being perfectly manicured in the public eye (at the expense of anything), Jon was out partying and having fun. Unfortunately, each parent's choices took a toll on the children. Some of them took it harder than others.

Specifically, the two oldest of the Gosselin girls as well as son Collin haven't visited their father in a very long time because of the choices he made. Jon claims to have always been there for his kids while the estranged children tell a different story.

9 Nicole Kidman Breaks Down About Using A Gestational Carrier

If you are one of the many women who has struggled with infertility or carrying a baby then you know how Nicole Kidman felt during her breakdown. Her and musician husband Keith Urban desperately wanted another baby, but Nicole simply couldn't carry a child.

After the two had looked into their options, they decided upon using a gestational carrier. Although gestational carrier and surrogate are often used interchangeably, by definition they're not exactly the same thing. Gestational carrying is a type of surrogacy where the sperm and egg are both donated by - in this case - Kidman and Urban.

The culprit for the breakdown was easy enough to identify. Wanting what she couldn't have, erasing the stigma of the past in using a type of surrogate, and the stress of it all sort of put her over the edge. Even when she's interviewed about it now, she gets very emotional. Who is to blame her!

8 Drew Barrymore Experiences Depression After Second Child

While postpartum depression is no secret any longer, many women still think they're not going to have to face it. Some even say it all just sounds too severe to be true. Talk to anyone who has dealt with it and you'll hear a different story. It is a very real thing and it is tough stuff!

Drew Barrymore experienced severe depression after having her second child and she reported that she had no idea how real it was until experiencing postpartum depression for herself.

With Barrymore's first child, she didn't have the same experience. She says,

"The second time, I was like, 'Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand.' It's a different type of overwhelming,"

Most scientific books about pregnancy report a higher risk of postpartum depression, overwhelming feeling, and general unhappiness after giving birth to a second child. Don't let this scare you, because in the very next sentence they always report mothers experiencing an unbelievable level of love and satisfaction. It's just a matter of pushing through the same cloud that haunted this sweet actress.

7 Charlie Sheen At Rock Bottom As His Children Hangout With Porn Stars

No one ever accused Charlie Sheen of being a great human being, let alone nominating him for a father-of-the-year award. He can usually be seen doing something nasty, disrespectful, and downright ignorant.

When he's not on some rant about this or that, he's writing public hate mail to one of his exes. Then of course you have the drunken acts of foolishness to take into account. So, basically his manic lifestyle can be categorized as one big breakdown.

To top things off, he has limited time with his kids to start with and when he does have them, he invites his "angels" aka porn stars to come hang out. Well, one was said to be the nanny and the other his porn star girlfriend. So, in this case "nanny" could mean a lot of things.

Like mentioned before, this dude is nowhere near a nomination for a rather-of-the-year award!

6 Kristen Bell Confesses Painful Emotional Disconnection With Her Baby

The incredibly adorable Kristen Bell and the insanely funny Dax Shepard are two really down-to-earth parents. They've been together for 10 years and have two daughters, Delta and Lincoln. Delta was born in 2013 and Lincoln in 2014, so they're not too awful far apart.

Bell had a minor freak out moment when she gave birth to her second daughter. What she experienced is not that uncommon, but it does do a number on your emotions and mind.

Bell admitted after her first child was born that "it could've been a water bottle" in her belly, that's how connected she felt to her daughter Lincoln at first. It wasn't until later that her maternal instincts kicked in and her emotional pendulum swung the other directions.

She didn't freak out for too long, because obviously she's joking about it now!

5 Kate Middleton Admits To Motherhood Overwhelming Her

Even the mother of royalty has breakdowns. Albeit, the breakdown of an educated, refined young princess like Kate Middleton isn't nearly as severe or dramatic as the kind you'll find in tinseltown. Here's hat she had to say at a charity event.

"Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge," the duchess said. "Even for me, who has support at home that most mothers do not. Nothing can really prepare you for the sheer, overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It's full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together."
The 35-year-old continued, "There is no rule book, no right or wrong; you just have to make it up and do the very best you can to care for your family. For many mothers, myself included, this can at times lead to a lack of confidence and feelings of ignorance. Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.""If any of us caught a fever during pregnancy, we would seek advice and support from a doctor," she added. "Getting help with our mental health is no different. Our children need us to look after ourselves and get the support we need."

4 Scott Disick Spiraling Down To A Zero Dad

Yes, another Kardashian story...kind of. This is the sad dad freak out of Kourtney Kardashian's ex-lover who fathered her three children. The couple met back in 2006 and they've had an on again off again kind of relationship since then.

To say the least, Disick is a party boy. In fact, he seems to care about partying and drinking more than spending time with his children. Not that this would surprise anyone to hear about a Hollywood partier.

His whole life is sort of a breakdown and his parenting style - or lack of - reflects it. For some reason, Kourtney keeps reconciling with him, thus creating more children for him to ignore. Rumor has it that he didn't even attend his daughter's third birthday party.

3 Hayden Panettiere Seeks Treatment For Postpartum Issues

For Hayden Panettiere, the struggle with postpartum depression was incredibly real. She didn't recognize it at first, because it wasn't as severe as what she had always imagined. Admitting that she never had thoughts of hurting or neglecting her own baby, so she wrote off depression.

It wasn't until she sought out professional help for the intense feeling of just being down, hopeless, and sad all the time that she realized what exactly had been the culprit. It was then that she understood that postpartum depression can mask itself in many facades, not just the most popular.

Cheers to Panettiere for going the extra mile after her breakdown. Seeking professional help isn't always the most glamorous thing to do, but it is the most responsible thing to do in cases like this.

2 Gwyneth Paltrow Admits To Feeling Like A Bad Mom

Although actress Gwyneth Paltrow and musician Chris Martin are no longer a couple, they are still amazing parents together. Apparently they always were and most likely they always will be in the future.

For Paltrow, it was a bout of postpartum depression that did her in. She didn't even recognize the symptoms until her then-husband reassured her that's what she was experiencing.

In her mind she was failing as a mom and had a few freak out moments that made her feel like a bad mom. It never occurred to her that her hormones and body might be doing a number on her cognitive brain power.

After Martin pointed out the real problem, the two parents tackled the issue together like champs. We'll take a lesson in parental teamwork from these two any day!

1 Alec Baldwin Goes Ballistic On His Daughter

As you have been able to tell, dad freak outs are typically much different than mom freak outs. Take the time Alec Baldwin called up his daughter and flipped out on her, for example.

Funny guy Baldwin called his 12-year-old daughter. When she didn't pick up, he left a now infamously awful voice message for, where he tells her she "doesn't have brains or decency" and calls her a "thoughtless little pig."

When the news got out that he'd been such a jerk to her, no one thought she deserved it. In fact, no one was on his side of the freak out.

He's since apologized, but seriously how can you erase those cruel words from your memory, especially from you own dad!

Sources: Entertainment Tonight, Today, Parents