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Ethan Slater's ex-wife Lilly Jay is speaking out to advocate for maternal mental health.

‘Glamour’ chatted with the psychologist and perinatal mental-health specialist about how she’s choosing to use her voice after being thrust into the spotlight due to a public breakup: advocating on behalf of American mothers.

As someone who has spent her career helping to care for women as they go through the transformation from pregnancy to birth and through their child’s first year, she has witnessed firsthand the lack of mental-health support that her patients face as well as the systemic gaps that lead to parental burnout and crises. In his warning, then Surgeon General Vivek Murthy cited lack of social services, high costs of childcare, nonexistent safety nets, and technology concerns as just some of the things that are making American parenthood literally hazardous to our health. When DeLuca, a former Etsy and NerdWallet product lead, was in the throes of her mental-health struggle following the 2022 birth of her daughter, she recalls spending hours doomscrolling the internet, simmering in her myriad anxieties of what could happen to her baby.

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