Susannah Constantine opens up about her 'mental menopause' - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Celebrity Susannah Constantine opens up about her ‘ mental menopause’ By You Magazine - October 18, 2018 Ex-Strictly Come Dancing contestant Susannah Constantine has spoken candidly about going through menopause, revealing the mental battle she suffered in an interview on ITV’s Lorraine. The 56-year-old fashion guru highlighted that the challenges that women face when entering into menopause, explaining both physical and mental changes she herself endured. She opened up about the effects of everything from children leaving home to your periods stopping. Rex Features ‘As women of our age you start to lose so much; you stop getting your period, your children leave home, you’re maybe thinking about retiring. Your whole world is changing and it’s a really tough time for women,’ she told Lorraine. ‘I’m still going through the mental menopause. I think they are two very different things.’ Susannah – who appeared on the popular morning chat show in an effort to encourage other women to be more open about menopause – competed in this year’s series of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing but became the first contestant to be voted out after scoring just 12 points for her samba in the first week. Rex Features Speaking to the host, she revealed that she entered the show to regain her confidence and to challenge herself – both of which it did. ‘It was to help me feel that I was relevant to myself, not anybody else, and to push myself and with age and wisdom and experience it didn’t matter so much that I had failed as long as I tried,’ the mum-of-three said. ‘I really encourage women to go out and try something new, and give it a go and if it doesn’t work it doesn’t matter. That’s what we say to our children all the time.’ During her time on Strictly, Susannah grew close to her dancing partner Anton du Beke. The pair did a joint interview on Loose Women earlier this month, where the star revealed that the hardest part about exiting the show was feeling as though she had let Anton down. ‘I watched Anton’s face and how disappointed he looked and that’s what made me cry as I felt I had let him down,’ she said. RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR 50 of the best celebrity Halloween costumes of all time Shirley Ballas ‘ Strictly gave me back my hope’ Davina McCall discusses how men can help women going through the menopause Popular in Celebrity TV chef Gino D Acampo on Sardinia Sophia Loren and scary salads May 25, 2017 The Evergreen Goddess Exercise guru Diana Moran on looking fit and July 10, 2017 More more Julianne Moore November 13, 2017 Author Jill Mansell on designer notebooks commissioning art and the family January 16, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES Kelly Hoppen on vodka vintage finds and being a April 4, 2018 ‘ I have no regrets’ Millie Mackintosh on divorce debt and reuniting May 20, 2018 EMOTIONAL TIES TV presenter and tennis player Annabel Croft shares her July 1, 2018 Stella Parton ‘ Dolly and I have always been close’ August 12, 2018 Anna Friel on getting jeered in the street shared parenting with September 23, 2018 Queen of primetime Charlotte Riley on juggling rising stardom with pregnancy October 21, 2018 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved