Louise Minchin on her menopause ‘superpower’, plus exam stress!
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Ahead of her Sport Relief ultra-marathon, BBC presenter Louise Minchin talks to Lorraine and Trish about becoming a triathlete during her peri-menopause, and how hot flushes in front of the cameras led to the BBC’s menopause awareness week.
Plus, keeping everyone in the house calm during exam season, old lady hands and being a Smiths fan
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Noreen Candy. |
| 0:06.6 | Welcome to Postcards from Midlife, the show where we help you through the |
| 0:10.6 | Midlife, the menopause, motherhood and everything in between. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we're going to be talking about why society doesn't want to talk about the menopause, |
| 0:20.6 | a taboo we're working hard to change with this very podcast in fact. the Menopause |
| 0:23.4 | of Pinaue were working hard to change with this very podcast in fact. |
| 0:24.8 | Our special guest is TV presenter Louise Minchin who spearheaded the BBC's |
| 0:28.8 | Menopause week last year filming her own experience of whether or not to go on HRT. |
| 0:34.0 | Louise joined us just before she headed off to Namibia to take part in the grueling sport |
| 0:38.1 | relief desert adventure so she talks about that too. |
| 0:41.1 | Later in the episode we're going to be sharing our trials and |
| 0:43.8 | tribulations as four of our six children prepare for their GCSEs and A levels |
| 0:49.2 | in the coming months. But first though Trish I found some old photographs of myself. |
| 0:55.0 | And actually I thought it was going to be horrified because I remember having my picture taken at the time I was on holiday and thinking, |
| 1:02.0 | oh I've got terrible skin |
| 1:03.6 | I've got lots of spots I haven't been able to brush my hair I looked amazing I know I was |
| 1:08.6 | 22 in Greece I was just thinking why didn't I at the time think, this is great, I'm having the time of my life? |
| 1:16.0 | You were gorgeous. Oh, it's gorgeous in my mind. There was no context. It was just brilliant. It's really lovely to look and but I should have thought |
| 1:23.6 | about it at the time I think we're just so critical of ourselves in photos aren't |
| 1:28.0 | we and I've got a friend actually we just went to her 50th birthday party and I sent her what I thought was a really lovely |
| 1:34.4 | picture that I took on the night at sober at the time obviously before the wine had kicked in and she just she |
| 1:40.9 | text back going oh look really fat. |
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