TV presenter Gabby Logan revealed that her sex life with husband Kenny suffered due to the menopause.
“My libido was not what it once was,” she admitted during the Menopause Monologues stage show. “My husband and I have always had a strong physical connection, but sex definitely became a job to be ticked off the list.”
A dwindling sex drive wasn’t the only symptom that former gymnast Gabby, 49, experienced as she entered the menopause in 2020 during lockdown.
“I had this gnawing anxiety which I had never really experienced before. At this point, we were smack-bang in the middle of lockdown, so I put it down to that. But as time went on, the mist wasn’t lifting and I was in this slump that I didn’t think I could see a way out of – I wasn’t finding joy in the thing I used to, exercise felt like hard work and my temperament was volatile at best.”
The presenter, who has hosted major sporting events for the BBC such as this year’s UEFA Women’s Euros and the 2022 Commonwealth Games, didn’t realise she was experiencing menopausal symptoms straight away, even though, as she remembers “my skin lost a little bit of its glow, and my hair started to feel a bit thinner.”
It was only when she was recording her podcast The Midpoint with journalist Mariella Frostrup that she realised her feelings and symptoms could indicate the menopause.
“I was listening to Mariella talking about her menopause experience and I thought, ‘Hmm, these symptoms are ringing a few bells,” she explained. “I was 47, nearly 48, and I hadn’t really thought about it before.”
“I went to the doctor that Mariella mentioned in her podcast episode and the doctor told me I had two, maybe three, periods left. I was like, ‘Well, this is fantastic news!’ First of all, I now know what this is, and now I can get some HRT.”
When Gabby was prescribed HRT she discovered it had a positive side effect – it made her “really fancy” husband Kenny.
And after he heard Gabby chatting about hormone treatments with Davina McCall on the podcast, Kenny, who has been married to Gabby for 21 years, told his wife: “He said, ‘if you are going to suddenly get really rampant on this stuff that you rub on your arm, I’m going to get my testosterone checked.”
It turned out to have been a very sensible decision, as former rugby union player Kenny’s health check may have saved his life. The tests revealed he had early stage prostate cancer.
“He is very, very lucky,” says Gabby, “because prostate cancer is the cancer that when you have got symptoms it is very, very hard to cure and very hard to find a way out. He didn’t have any symptoms, he was just curious about what was going on with me.
“The curiosity I had into my symptoms may well have saved my husband’s life, and it has given him a lot more life. I will be eternally grateful for that.”
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