Rod Stewart opens up about supporting his wife's struggle with menopause: 'Men have to understand' - Yahoo Life

Menopause has been successful the quality lately, acknowledgment to Michelle Obama, Judy Greer, Courteney Cox, Naomi Watts and different celebrated women opening up astir their experiences. Rod Stewart, however, is the uncommon antheral to talk up.

In aa caller interrogation with the Sunday Times, the legendary crooner explained what it was similar helping his woman of 15 years, Penny Lancaster, done hormonal changes. Though he's 77 years old, Stewart admitted that helium hadn't had a spouse acquisition menopause due to the fact that his archetypal 2 marriages, to Alana Stewart and Rachel Hunter, ended erstwhile the women were inactive successful their 30s.

"I hadn’t seen [menopause] earlier due to the fact that my marriages didn’t past that long, truthful Penny was the first, but she would get into blinding fits of rage," Stewart, who shares 2 sons with 51-year-old Lancaster, shared. "One nighttime she threw utensils, truthful maine and the boys gave her a hug and since past she’s worked to fto radical cognize what it is."

To decently recognize what Lancaster was going through, Stewart educated himself astir menopause. In April, the British signer backed Lancaster's Menopause Mandate run successful bid to rise consciousness astir the issue. The run seeks to grow aesculapian acquisition astir menopause and summation the availability of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), which isn't escaped successful England.

According to Stewart, "men person to recognize and not conscionable spell down the pub.”

Last year, the "Young Turks" signer suggested that husbands and partners should acquisition acquisition classes connected menopause to assistance them recognize what women woody with, saying the lessons would beryllium a “very bully mode to go.” His tendency to amended different men comes from his ain conflict to recognize Lancaster's journey.

“I Googled and Googled and Googled. I Googled menopause truthful overmuch erstwhile she was going done it," Stewart shared connected the British speech amusement Loose Women in 2021, the Independent reported. “She was successful a fragile situation. I conscionable had to perceive and larn and get acceptable for saucepans being thrown done the kitchen."

He called the archetypal acquisition "frightening, due to the fact that this truly wasn’t the idiosyncratic I married." But by openly discussing Lancaster's feelings, the mates dealt with it. "We talked astir it, which I deliberation is the astir important happening a mates tin do, and she explained to maine — done the tears, arsenic Penny likes a outcry — and talked it through, and that’s what couples do," said Stewart.

Ultimately, Stewart said helium believes “Men person got to get connected with it, recognize and travel retired the different end.”

Lancaster said she initially mistook the communal symptoms of menopause, which see fluctuations successful mood, blistery flashes, reduced libido arsenic panic attacks, arsenic COVID-19 since the onset took spot during the lockdown period. She was enactment connected anti-depressants but yet discovered hormone replacement therapy.

"Now that I’m connected HRT it’s similar a caller start. Not the end, but the opening of a caller chapter," Lancaster said.

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