Ireland Baldwin says she's experienced anxiety since her parents Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger got divorced when she was a kid

• Model Ireland Baldwin appeared on the latest episode of "Red Table Talk" and discussed her anxiety.
• Baldwin said she's experienced anxiety since her parents Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger divorced.

Model Ireland Baldwin said that she's experienced anxiety since her parents, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, ended their marriage when she was a child.

"I didn't really want to call it anxiety for a long time, because I think it kind of makes you feel weak, it makes you feel like you're put in a box of sorts," Baldwin, 26, said during a one-on-one conversation with Willow Smith in the latest episode of "Red Table Talk" on Facebook Watch.

"I think I've had it my whole life, since I was a kid," she continued. "I just don't think I was comfortable calling it what it was. I just felt so ashamed of it. And I didn't really understand what was happening to me."

Baldwin told Smith that she had her first anxiety attack "when my parents were getting divorced."

Baldwin's parents reportedly met through their roles as love interests in the 1991 rom-com "The Marrying Man."

They wed in 1993 and split in 2002, when Baldwin was 7 years old. The couple's breakup and custody battle over Baldwin played out publicly.

Baldwin said that at the time, she was "hidden" from the reality of the media attention, but when she got older, her mental health was affected.

The model said that her anxiety is "rooted" in trying to differentiate herself from her parents and be her own parents.

"You have a lot more to prove because you're always gonna have that comparison to your parents," she said. "I don't think I ever would have been scouted as a model if it weren't for who my parents are. Nothing makes me want to peel my fingernails more than doing a Basinger-Baldwin spread in a magazine and then facing the criticism and comparisons. And then that anxiety for me is extremely toxic."

Later in the episode, Baldwin and Smith sat down with Basinger and "RTT" cohosts Pinkett Smith and Adrienne Banfield Norris for a wider conversation about trauma and anxiety.

Baldwin credited Basinger with being her "go-to" person to help her to manage her anxiety.

"She's who I call when I'm panicking, when I'm having an anxiety attack, or when it's starting to build up," Baldwin said.

Basinger, who also struggles with anxiety, said that her daughter has "been a great teacher and a great healer for me."

"She has no idea what she's done for me in my life to battle this," the actress said. "She's brought me out of my shell."

Watch the full "Red Table Talk" episode below.