Shirley Ballas makes honest admission about menopause leaving her in ‘dark place’

Shirley Ballas opens up about effects of menopauseSource: This Morning

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00:00You mentioned before about menopause and how it affected you so badly.

00:05Terribly, terribly.

00:06And no one to talk about it with.

00:08Eventually I talked to my son because I really felt in a dark place.

00:12But my mother sailed through the menopause

00:14and it wasn't something from that era that they really talked about.

00:17But I got myself living in America.

00:19I was away from my mum at the time.

00:20Got myself in a really down and out place.

00:23I mean, no one seemed to understand me.

00:25It affected my teaching.

00:27I go to work every day.

00:28I was a little bit sharper with everyone.

00:29A lovely young man called Wrangel took me to one side.

00:33He said, I don't know what's going on in your life,

00:34but this isn't the teacher that we're used to.

00:36And that was a wake-up call.

00:38And then I spoke to my son.

00:39He had a doctor.

00:40And then I did bioidentical hormones and my life changed forever.

00:43And it just literally pulled you out of that darkness?

00:45Just to get my body balanced.

00:47So my body was way unbalanced.

00:50And now I do that check once a year.

00:52I get my hormones checked just to make sure even at 65

00:55that everything's working and functioning and so on.

00:59I'll see you in the background.