Catherine used her experience with postpartum depression to create Workin' Moms and was determined to laugh through the pain.
"By fleshing out my sadness, exposing the strange and funny angles to it, I began to recognize the 'me' that I was prior to having my son," she wrote in an essay in Glamour magazine (which has since been taken down). "So I committed to retelling the postpartum scenes I had lived, but with one glaring change: I wrote myself as four different characters who I knew would outgrow this period."
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She continued, "While I felt hopelessness, 'Kate Foster' would persevere. She could outwit her darkest moments while rocking a skirt suit that screamed 'I know who I am!' I could sit in a pile of fear and tears at my computer, but the women I scribed were barreling forward and speaking their truths."
Catherine, who is married to Philip Sternberg, is the mom of two sons — Jackson and Liam — and is the sister of director Jason Reitman, best known for his films Juno and Up in the Air.
Her father is famed director Ivan Reitman, who directed Ghostbusters and Kindergarten Cop, and produced classics such as Space Jam and Animal House.
NBD. We'll be streaming Workin' Moms on Netflix now.
