Katie Lowes on Silent Celiac, Strong Women, and Surviving the Motherhood Mayhem

About this episode

Katie Lowes shares her journey with silent celiac disease, postpartum depression, and the power of female support in motherhood.

In this episode of Stacy Phillips & Friends, Stacy sits down with co-host Abbe Feder (fertility coach and  author) and the hilarious, heartfelt, and fiercely real Katie Lowe - actress, producer, philanthropist, and self-proclaimed pretzel queen . What starts as girl talk quickly becomes an honest, unfiltered conversation about health, motherhood, identity, and the unexpected plot twists life throws our way. Katie opens up about the moment she discovered she had silent celiac disease, why she’d unknowingly spent years swollen, exhausted, and in pain, and how one routine colonoscopy completely changed her health. She also shares her deeply personal journey through postpartum depression, the women who carried her through the darkest moments, and the surprising things that helped her find her way back to herself. But this episode is also a celebration of female power. The kind that shows up on set, in friendships, in marriages, and especially in the trenches of motherhood. Katie talks about being supported by Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers, raising two young kids while navigating Hollywood, building a not-for-profit theater company, and learning how to take her first real “me…

People in this episode

Host: Stacy Phillips

Guests: Abbe Feder, Katie Lowes

Topics covered

• health
• motherhood
• identity
• female empowerment
• postpartum depression
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• silent celiac
• motherhood
• postpartum depression
• female empowerment
• health
• identity
• Hollywood
• not-for-profit theater

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers

Products: pretzel

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