Jennifer Lawrence reveals heartbreaking truth behind her postpartum depression

Jennifer Lawrence was "really excited" to give her only child a sibling but was unprepared for the complications that came with the blessing.

The 35-year-old shares two sons with husband Cooke Maroney, is mother to Cy, three, and a second son who was born earlier this year.

Addressing the Telegraph newspaper, the American actress revealed how she was "caught off-guard" when she was struck by postpartum depression following the birth.

The Hunger Gamers star continued, "But after he was born, I actually got really bad postpartum [depression], which came to me as a total surprise, because I felt like I knew what to expect from motherhood. I was really slammed, it really caught me off-guard."

She continued, "My baby was six weeks old. I was a little tired, I had the 'Oh, wow, my entire life is different, every day is different' moments. I was having an identity crisis, for sure."

Lawrence began shooting the new film movie Die, My Love when she was four and a half months pregnant with her second child.

The mother of two disclosed she would have turned down her film if she had known her character for a mother battling postpartum depression when as she herself was battling the same issues in real life.

She mentioned how her role in the film contributed to her condition, "[If I had been] feeling the way I was, I would have closed the book after the second page. I wouldn’t have been able to go there. Because you want to get away from those feelings, you don’t want to dive into them."