Britney Spears opens up about postnatal depression in new memoir

Britney Spears has shared details about suffering from postnatal depression in her new memoir The Woman in Me.

In the book released on Tuesday, 24 October, the singer, 41, described how "there wasn't the same conversation about mental health back then that there is now" and wrote that she suffered from "sadness, anxiety, [and] fatigue.

“I hope any new mothers reading this who are having a hard time will get help early," she added.

Spears shares two sons with her ex-husband Kevin Federline.