☆Unveiling☆

Kelsey Fitzsimmons is free. 💜 After 103 days in jail, healing from being shot in the chest, processing an extremely traumatic event and being stripped from her son for 9 months.. she can finally walk with her head held high. Kelsey is NOT GUILTY.

Anyone who thinks Kelsey Fitzsimmons is guilty has clearly never experienced depression or suicidal thoughts. I hate that I can empathize with her, but I do. There’s another layer here that people are ignoring. She was postpartum. Postpartum depression is not the “baby blues” and it does not magically disappear after a few weeks. It can last for months, even years. We heard her say that officers told her it would “only be two weeks” without her four month old son. Two weeks to a new mother is not just time passing. It feels endless. And when you factor in postpartum depression, that separation is not just hard, it’s destabilizing. Women’s health, especially postpartum mental health, is constantly minimized and misunderstood. There is this narrative that after six weeks, women are supposed to bounce back and be fine. That is not reality for a lot of mothers. Kelsey and her son should have been handled with care. Instead, her child became leverage in a situation that looks more like a man who did not know how to end a relationship. In a matter of moments, she lost her partner, her child, her home, her dog, and her job. And if you cannot understand why someone, even someone without depression, would be completely overwhelmed after losing every part of their life at once, then you are actively choosing not to understand.. while also looking like a complete asshole.