Her cheery disposition has always put us in a good mood, but life has not been a walk in the park for radio and TV presenter Fearne Cotton.
Just weeks after revealing that she battled depression, the 35-year-old has spoken candidly about life with the condition.
Fearne, who is mum to three-year-old Rex and one-year-old Honey, recalls the path to diagnosis in her new book, Happy.
“I had a real lack of energy. I felt so drained, and my lust for everything that I love wasn’t there anymore. Everything was a drag and felt heavy,” she writes.
“I felt anti-social, cut-off, alienated, and they were massive warning signs. Everyone has that lightbulb moment that they need to do something differently, but for me, it was feeling stuck.”
Fearne admits that is was a ‘relief’ when her doctor was able to diagnose her. She immediately began a course of anti-depressants to ‘get her head above the clouds for a minute’, and was able to come off them and ‘look for other options’ after a few months.
An important element of Fearne’s treatment was letting go of ‘perfection’.
“I was trying to do so many things and putting so much pressure on myself – and why? Perfect doesn’t exist. I cut back a lot on work, and focused a lot more on family,” she explains.
Fearne, who has been married to Jesse Wood for three years, reveals that her happiest times are now spent ‘running in the park, being with people she adores, and dancing around the kitchen with her son and daughter to music’.
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