- Freida Pinto is speaking up about her difficult postpartum period after the birth of her son Rumi-Ray with spouse Cory Tran.
- The Slumdog Millionaire actor, 37, tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue, on newsstands today, that while she loves being a parent to 8-month-old son Rumi-Ray, her postpartum experience was not easy.
- “The hormones plummeting, the mood swings, the sleep deprivation — it was all very real,” she says.
“And the hardest part was breastfeeding and my toes would curl when I knew my son was hungry because of the pain I would experience with his bad latch. I’m very proud I stuck with it.”
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Pinto, who has a boy with her husband Cory, emphasises the significance of preparing for the postpartum period and creating a “postpartum sanctuary.”
“In my culture, it is customary for a mother to be taken care of for the first 30 or 40 days, and the mother and baby never left alone to just figure it out,” she explains.
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“But all my American friends told me that they felt isolated. It is so important that every woman be able to prepare and plan for a postpartum sanctuary.”
The actress says she felt “inspired” to become the chief impact officer of Anya, a postpartum support platform founded in 2021, as her postpartum experience was “vastly different” from what she was told by other mothers.
