Kate Lawler, 45, breaks down in tears over ‘turbulent’ menopause signs and admits she feels ‘powerless’
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Kate Lawler couldn’t hold back her tears as she bravely opened up about her ‘turbulent’ battle with perimenopause in a new interview on Tuesday.
The presenter, 45, admitted that she has been ‘masking’ her true feelings by claiming she is doing OK with her health as she spoke to Dr. Naomi Potter on her Is It Hot in Here? podcast.
The former Big Brother star explained how she has ‘anxiety’ and feels ‘powerless’ as she just wants to be ‘the person I was before’.
Breaking down in tears, Kate openly discussed her health, saying: ‘I get emotional talking about it. I always feel like it’s exhausting because having the job that I have, I constantly have to mask, I’m okay.
‘At the moment, I just feel like I’m not. I feel like I’m a nightmare to live with – I feel sorry for my husband.
‘I feel like I’m powerless and questioned everything I do, like, does anyone like me? Do my friends? I feel so lost with who I am.
Kate Lawler couldn’t hold back her tears as she bravely opened up about her ‘turbulent’ battle with perimenopause in a new interview on Tuesday
The presenter, 45, admitted that she has been ‘masking’ her true feelings by claiming she is doing OK with her health as she spoke to Dr. Naomi Potter on her Is It Hot in Here? podcast
It was when she looked back at videos from ‘a couple of years ago’ on her Instagram, and saw ‘how happy’ she was that it ‘really hit’ her.
She continued: ‘I looked at Instagram videos and saw how happy I was and I feel like I’ve changed so much and I just thought, you know what? I wish I could just be the person I was.
‘The anxiety I have, its health anxiety I’m so scared to even drink alcohol and since I’ve had a kid I’m so scared.’
Dr. Potter told Kate that she doesn’t ‘have to feel like this’, but the mother-of-one admitted she’s reluctant to go on HRT (hormone replacement therapy) – the traditional treatment for perimenopause.
‘I wish I just wasn’t so funny about the HRT, like, I wish I just listened to the menopause doctor’, she said.
Instead, Kate uses oestrogen-based moisturiser, because she’s ‘scared’ of HRT.
She added: ‘I’m also reluctant to taking anti-depressants and I’m reluctant because I’m like this is how I feel now until I’m through menopause.
‘I go home and I cry and we mask it. I do feel like the patches I felt better than the cream but they don’t stay on and I can’t remember to change them twice a week.
The former Big Brother star (L) explained how she has ‘anxiety’ and feels ‘powerless’ as she just wants to be ‘the person I was before’
Kate said: ‘I always feel like it’s exhausting because having the job that I have, I constantly have to mask, I’m okay. At the moment, I just feel like I’m not. I feel like I’m powerless’
She said: ‘I just want to feel happy again and I want my husband to have the person he married to come back. It is a turbulent time, I think I know best but I should listen to professionals’
Dr. Potter shared the podcast on Instagram and several fans and famous faces including Zoe Ball and Anna Williamson said she is not alone
‘I felt better on the patches and then the boob pain scared me so came off it but, yeah.
‘I just want to feel happy again and I want my husband to have the person he married to come back. It is a turbulent time, I think I know best but I should listen to professionals, social media is a mind field.
‘I didn’t take HRT because I was so scared from everything that I’ve seen and then you meet someone on it and your like ‘oh yes’.
Dr. Potter shared the podcast on Instagram and several fans and famous faces including Zoe Ball and Anna Williamson said she is not alone.
They wrote: ‘Kate. oh darling you’re not alone girl. totally understand how you’re feeling. sending you so much love and solidarity;
‘Oh Kate bless you, I lived like this for many many years feeling exactly the same! Why oh why are we not educated when it comes to perimenopause! So many of us waste years of our lives feeling, lost lonely and have no idea who we are anymore.. thank you for being so open and honest;
‘Sending so much love. I went through the same; @thekatelawler you are not alone we all feel like this x; I’m feeling just like @thekatelawler thank you for sharing and opening up’.
Kate is a proud mum to daughter Noa, four, with husband Martin Bojtos.
Kate is a proud mum to daughter Noa, four, with husband Martin Bojtos
It comes after Kate revealed she has ‘broken the law’ and ended up locked in a dispute with her neighbour.
The Big Brother winner took to Instagram to share that she had got herself into ‘trouble’ with her neighbour after painting the back of their shed.
Kate revealed that her gardener had painted it because she didn’t like the colour of it, but her neighbour was furious she had done so without permission and the TV personality later discovered it was in fact illegal, and considered trespassing.
She quickly took to social media to explain her predicament and sparked a nationwide debate as some agreed with her that they wouldn’t care, while others were horrified that she had painted someone else’s property.
