Reese Witherspoon is opening up about her postpartum journey as a young mom after welcoming her daughter, Ava Phillippe. "It was really bad," Witherspoon, 49, said of her struggle with depression in a Harper's Bazaar profile published Sunday, November 2. "In the first six months, I was simultaneously happy and depressed. I just cried all the time, I was up all night, I was exhausted. It was a hormone drop I didn't expect, which I experienced right after birth and again when I stopped nursing six months later." The actress continued, "Everyone has an opinion.