Comedian and actress Jasmin Brown had a daughter in 2024 and a son in 2025, and she said she went about a year without knowing that what she was living with was postpartum depression.
“I had kids back to back so I didn’t realize I was going through postpartum depression,” she said in a video posted to Instagram. She described herself as high functioning through it. The recognition came about a year after her son was born, three days after she hired a nanny, and she said it arrived as bluntly as a curse, the thought landing fully formed that she was depressed.
Then she named the part that keeps other women quiet. “People act like it’s a hoax,” she said.
Postpartum depression affects roughly one in eight women, and Black women’s risk is 1.6 times higher, according to the American Hospital Association. High functioning is not a diagnosis. It is what a lot of Black mothers call getting through the day, and it is how a condition with a name and a number goes a year without either.
Brown had two children inside two years and a career that runs on being the funniest person in the room. She closed the video with a line a lot of readers will know from somewhere other than a doctor’s office: “no weapon formed against me shall prosper.”
She said it plainly, on her own page, with her name on it. The 1.6 is the reason that matters.
