Drew Barrymore is a proud mother of two beautiful girls, Olive, 3, and Franki, 18 months, with husband Will Kopelman, but in a recent interview with People magazine the 40-year-old actress opened up about suffering from postpartum depression following the birth of her second daughter Frankie.

“I didn’t have postpartum the first time [with Olive] so I didn’t understand it because I was like, ‘I feel great,’” she reveals.

“The second time [with Frankie], I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, I see what people talk about now. I understand.’ It’s a different type of overwhelming with the second. I really got under the cloud.”

Barrymore was lucky enough not to feel long-term effects of the disorder that affects an increasing number of women.

The Knife Fight actress shared that she didn’t feel like herself for about six months after her second child was born in order to encourage other women going through the same problems.

Drew married her third husband Will Kopelman in 2012 and has enjoyed seeing him be a dad.

“Honestly, I don’t know how it is for other couples but really I like watching him be a father,” Barrymore tells the magazine. “I know everyone says you’re supposed to put your coupledom first. But I really love it being all about the kids. Maybe that’s my compensating for not having parents myself or a childhood but right now, the focus is about how we’re figuring things out as parents.”