Nikki Bella Slams “Bullsh–t” Pressure to Snap Back After Giving Birth

Nikki Bella has a concept for her fellow mothers.

The Total Bellas star has been candid about her struggle with postpartum despair following welcoming her son Matteo with fiancé Artem Chigvintsev on July 31—even revealing she had “a significant breakdown” weeks right after offering birth—and on the Tuesday, Dec. 22 episode of Ashley Graham‘s Quite Large Deal podcast, Nikki manufactured it clear that she would like to keep on being that way: open and truthful.

“What I have recognized is, as moms, we do not chat about that adequate for the reason that I think we truly feel like absolutely everyone then instantly thinks we dislike our toddler if we say we have postpartum melancholy, which, which is not it at all,” Nikki discussed together with her similar twin sister Brie Bella. “It is entirely the struggle in yourself, in just your partner [or] sizeable other. Especially, I believe, for job females.”

The previous WWE star ongoing, “We go from like these main careers and then we’re right here. And then I am looking in the mirror and then I feel us, in the highlight, we have so significantly force on us to get back again to in which we ended up in a short total of time.”

Ah, “the snapback,” as Ashley explained it. “It is really bulls–t.”