Emily Ratajkowski has opened up for the first time about how she privately dealt with depression last year, in the hope it might help people struggling with their own mental health during the coronavirus crisis.
On Instagram, Emily posted a photo of herself taken at the end of last year alongside a caption describing 2019 as "one of the hardest years of [her] life".
"My mom was really sick," she wrote. "I was battling a serious depression and everything felt very uncertain. 2020 is definitely giving last year a run for its money but I'm happy to say that I've learned how to take better care of myself."
Emily went on to explain that the next couple of photos in her post showed a journal she'd kept, detailing all the lessons she'd learned during her time dealing with depression.
"I don't generally like to get too personal on here," she wrote, "And I'm far from having shit figured out, but these were some of the notes I scribbled down on New Year's Eve."
Referencing the ongoing coronavirus crisis, Emily said she hoped sharing her life lessons might help people "feel less alone in the anxiety or confusion or fear" they "might be experiencing right now".
