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  • Drew Barrymore Posts Throwback Photo With Mom Jaid, Thanks Her For Her Life

    Multi-awarded Hollywood actress Drew Barrymore recently shared a throwback photo on her Instagram account – a black-and-white picture of her and her mother Jaid – to celebrate the release of her new book.

    The new book, entitled Wildflower, talks about Barrymore’s life events and stories that she has experienced along the way. The book shares lessons she has learned in her life with the intention of sharing with the readers how those lessons helped her become the person she is today.

    Barrymore, 40, posted the image on Instagram and wrote a caption: “Today I wrote a book. And as I thank and celebrate many women this week, I must say a huge thank you to my mother. As I say in the acknowledgments, ‘thank you for my life. I am ever so pleased to be here!’ We have had quite a road, but it is paved with gratitude.”

    In spite of the sweet gesture from the Charlie’s Angels star, Barrymore didn’t get to grow up like most people. She was emancipated at the age of 14, after her mother was denied legal custody of her.

    Her father, John Drew Barrymore, never had a relationship with her.

    However, reports said that the 50 First Dates actress is still taking care of her mom, who is now 69 years old.

    The mother of two added that she sees to it that all of her mom’s needs are taken care of, or she simply “cannot function.”

    Wildflower is described as a follow-up to her 1990 book, Little Girl Lost, in which she talked about the life events and people who were close to her including godfather Steven Spielberg, who made her an instant star in the blockbuster movie, E.T.

    Drew Barrymore is currently married to Will Kopelman, although the two are reportedly filing for divorce and battling legal custody for their children, Olive, 3, and Frankie, 18 months.

  • Drew Barrymore Opens Up On ‘Being Under the Cloud’ of Postpartum Depression

    Drew Barrymore opened up to People magazine for this week’s cover story about her experience with a common ailment that afflicts many new mothers — postpartum depresssion.

    With two young daughters, Olive, three, and Frankie, 18 months, and a husband, art consultant Will Kopelman, 38, Barrymore says her life is “perfect and totally imperfect.”

    But like many new mothers, Barrymore says that after the birth of Frankie, she just didn’t feel quite right.

    “I didn’t have postpartum the first time so I didn’t understand it because I was like, ‘I feel great!’ The second time, I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand,’” Barrymore recollected. “It’s a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud.”

    Drew says with a plethora of projects in the works, including her new memoir, Wildflower, which hits shelves Oct. 27 and her next film, Miss You Already, which hits theaters next month, the 40-year-old actress felt pulled in every direction.

    “I just got right on the idea of, where do I need to be the most? Fifty-fifty would be ideal but life doesn’t work like that. Life is messy,” said Barrymore. “It was just really challenging and I felt overwhelmed. I made a lot of decisions and I definitely changed my work life to suit my parenthood.”

    Barrymore was one of the lucky ones because her bout with depression was “short-lived, probably six months,” and the actress says she is grateful for the experience, which taught her to always remain present in the moment.

    “It’s really important. I was in the kids’ class with Frankie and Olive this morning and I started fretting about some piece of work news that was just stressful,” she said. “You know, in like the Broadway Babies class and it’s the one-hit wonders day, and they’re singing I don’t even know what song, and we’re all doing our lollipop drums and I just thought, ‘Save it until after class.’ One thing at a time.”

    The actress told People that it’s important that her daughters see her hard work as a good thing.

    “Putting a negative stigma on work is a go-to. It makes us feel like it proves to our children that we don’t want to work, we’d rather be with you,” Drew Barrymore said. “I want them to see that work can be a good, positive, fun, happy thing. I’ve worked since I was 11½ months old so I have to be able to work, too. But I have to put them first. I don’t know if it’s good enough for anyone but I’m doing my best.”