Kaitlyn Bristowe Shares Crying Photo to Show Her Struggles: ‘Happiness and Depression Can Exist Simultaneously’
06.03.2022 - 22:33
/ usmagazine.com
It’s OK to cry. Kaitlyn Bristowe took a break from dancing up a storm on the Dancing With the Stars Live 2022 tour to open up about her mental health struggles.
“People don’t understand how happiness and depression can exist simultaneously. I do,” the former Bachelorette, 36, wrote via Instagram on Saturday, March 5. “Swipe to see where I was at this morning, and this first pic is where I’m at hours later. Feeling good. For me.”
In the first snap, Bristowe was glammed up in her dressing room ahead of Saturday’s performance. As followers swiped through her slideshow, she added a no-makeup selfie, tears streaming down her face.
“This is what being hormonal looks like. For some, it’s circumstantial, and for others it’s an every day battle,” the Bachelor alum added in her post. “I do feel lucky to know ‘This too shall pass.’ But just want to send out a virtual hug to everyone … For anyone struggling with depression today, either lay in bed and cry, or get your butt up and do something that makes you happy. Whichever one you choose is OK ♥️♥️.”
Bristowe, who won season 29 of DWTS with partner Artem Chigvintsev, joined the pro dancers on tour across the country earlier this year.
“It is so fun feeling the energy of all the pros and dancing together, and it already feels like we’re one big family, having so much fun together,” Bristowe exclusively told Us Weekly in December 2021, teasing the rehearsal process. ”It’s such a different energy dancing with everyone. And I can’t wait for people to come watch the tour.”
She continued at the time: “I’m so excited because I think [a crowd] just changes the whole dynamic of the energy. I got to do that one Janet Jackson dance to announce that I was going on tour and just hearing people cheer