Gabby Logan has revealed she told her husband and children she was leaving them during a menopausal “crisis.”
The presenter, 51, who fronts the BBC's Euro 2023 coverage in Germany, has been with her husband, former Scottish rugby international Kenny Logan – who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022 – since 1999, when they met. in a bar and married two years later.
Logan said she realized she was perimenopausal when she was 47, but she wasn't prepared for the emotional side of reaching “the halfway point” of life that began to affect her relationship.
Logan admitted she told her husband and two teenage twins, Lois and Reuben, who were 14 at the time, that she was moving out of the family home and getting an apartment in Beaconsfield.
speaking to The times about his new book, The midpoint planLogan said his new life plan had been “totally random” and made his two children cry when he sat them down to break the news.
“It was something small, like the kids not picking up after breakfast,” she said. “That was probably my lowest point, my mini-meltdown. It was the moment I felt like this wasn’t me and this wasn’t how I dealt with things.”
During menopause, women experience changes in hormone levels, which can lead to mood swings, low mood, and anxiety.
To manage her symptoms, Logan was prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which increases levels of estrogen and other hormones and helps ease the impact of hot flashes, anxiety, joint pain, sleep disturbances, night sweats and vaginal dryness.
“I expected things to change physically as you get older, but I wasn't prepared to feel so unenthusiastic, anxious, more agile and short-tempered,” Logan said.
“I had a lot to be thankful for, but that makes it worse because then you think, well, what's wrong with me?”
Logan revealed she tried to “keep it under control” with her husband and children after threatening to abandon them. However, the BBC presenter admitted there were a “couple of incidents” at work.
“There's a guy that I always had a great relationship with and he said something really benign and I was like, 'Oh, fuck you,'” she said.
“I still feel really bad about it. Luckily I didn't go around telling my bosses to go to hell, because that probably would have been the end of me.”
Last week, Logan revealed he had taken up a new hobby of playing the recorder at age 51 to “continue to challenge himself.”
“[Mid life] “It's a period of life that you have to embrace,” he added. “There's a lot to be excited about.”
