Davina McCall says she was warned that discussing her menopause could damage her career as it was "ageing and unsavoury." The 53-year-old TV presenter reveals she was "told not to talk about" her experience of menopause which began in her mid-forties.
And she admits she felt so ashamed at her decision to take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to help ease her symptoms, she even kept it a secret from pals.
She tells The Sun : "I lied to friends and told them I wasn’t on HRT. I was so ashamed of being on HRT because it somehow felt I was doing something wrong or dirty.
It felt like I was chasing youth." But her symptoms, which included night sweats, insomnia, low mood, anxiety and brain fog, meant it was difficult to work.
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