Nadia Sawalha and Loose Women co-stars were banned from discussing 'taboo' menopause

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Express.co.uk Nadia Sawalha, 57, shared that in the beginning of Loose Women, certain topics such as menopause were too taboo to speak about on the show, so much so that previous editors and bosses would stop the women from sharing details of of their experiences.

It wasn’t until Loose Women got a new boss that talking about menopause was encouraged on the ITV daytime chatshow.“I am proud to be the a part of the first show to talk about menopause,” Nadia explained.“When you when you go into menopause, I had so many symptoms, and none of which that I knew was the menopause.“I had no idea because there was no education about menopause.

Only 40 percent of medical schools even teach doctors about menopause.“My mother's never spoke about menopause because it's something you have to hide and yet to not say anything about.”Having grown up not knowing anything about the effects of ageing, Nadia soon realised that she was not alone in thinking like she did, but even when she spoke to her co-stars off-screen they were not allowed to put their conversation on television.She continued to say: “Even at Loose Women when I finally realised why I couldn't remember anything and that I was bleeding like crazy was because of my menopause and not cancer and not Alzheimer's, and all these other terrifying things that I thought it was.“Once I knew it was the menopause and I was talking to the others and bosses would say, ‘God don't say you've got menopause, people don't want to know about that’.“And it was taboo.”“It was taboo to talk about it at Loose women with our previous editors and bosses.

You weren't supposed to talk about it.”It wasn’t until Loose Women got a new boss that attitudes started to change, opening up the conversation for.