Pip Edwards admits she was in 'denial' over private health struggle: 'I never thought it would happen to me'
Pip Edwards has opened up about her own personal experience with menopause after her symptoms began at just 39.
The fashion designer, 44, has admitted she was in 'denial' when she started getting 'extreme' hot flushes and struggling to sleep five years ago.
She told The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday, she felt she needed to keep going to work without making any adjustments in her life.
'I never thought it would happen to me at 39, so it wasn't even on my radar,' she said.
'I would turn up to work obviously a bit frazzled, very drained, quite tired, emotional. Well, you can only put up a front for so long.'
Pip later learned that her mother had also experienced symptoms early in life.
The designer revealed she is using the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) patch and the pill to help manage her symptoms.
Menopause is the natural time in a woman's life when they have gone through 12 months without menstruating.
Pip Edwards has opened up about her own person experience with menopause after her symptoms began at just 39
The term perimenopause refers to the transition phase into menopause, and can involve symptoms like irregular menstrual cycles, hot flashes, decreased fertility and sleep issues.
Most Australian women enter perimenopause their mid-40s, and then begin menopause between the ages of 45 and 60.
Pip spoke for the first time about her private struggle with menopause back in March last year.
She said she 'didn't notice' her symptoms prior to a severe hot flush she endured while attending her son Justice's basketball game, as she was too focused on maintaining her fitness, growing her business and raising her only child, who she shares with ex Dan Single.
She eventually decided to visit a fertility clinic to freeze her eggs.
The fashion designer, 44, has admitted she was in 'denial' when she started getting 'extreme' hot flushes and struggling to sleep five years ago
Tragically, she was unable to undergo the procedure, as egg freezing was banned due to Covid rules that prevented elective surgery.
She was also unable to delay menopause by using hormone replacement therapy due to the severity of her symptoms.
By the time she was taken off hold for the procedure, it was too late.
'I was in absolute shock because I would never consider that [carrying another child] not being an option. I'm healthy. I'm fit. I'm in the prime of my life,' she lamented to Stellar.
'If I knew my family history better or had conversations, then maybe in my early 30s I would have started preparing my options for whatever life I choose.'
