Ok ladies! Can we talk about all the excess hair? And I am not talking about the hair on my head. There is a trail of hair on my stomach. I shave it. I can deal with that. I suppose. But that is not the worst of it! I mean, come-on!!!! A tiny beard! A beard!!!! I use to have like three errant hairs on my chin and a pre-requisite Jewish mustache. We call it the Jewish curse in my family. BUT. A. BEARD. I swear. I pluck it, I shave it, and wax it. If I let it grow I can be a cool hipster chick…

I told you from the start I want to be honest and real. In part I am inspired by people in the public eye shedding a light on the struggles that they had/have with post partum depression. Hayden Panettiere, a child actress that rose to fame in front of all of our eyes, recently gave birth to a baby girl. She just announced that she was going in for treatment for post partum depression. She amongst others are shedding the stigma and helping women world wide talk about what in the past has…