LeAnn Rimes, star of The Voice, has candidly discussed her struggles with perimenopause, which began when she was 39. The country music star revealed that she had been grappling with the symptoms for three years before understanding what they indicated.
Now aged 42, LeAnn experienced a lack of energy, brain fog, and 'personality changes'. Speaking on the Resetter Podcast with Dr Mindy Pelz in April, she also shared about mood swings, weight fluctuations, and her grief over the end of her fertility.
LeAnn said: "I'd been struggling for a while like maybe three years. I probably started going into perimenopause earlier than I realised. I'd gotten off the pill and had no idea where my hormones were."
At 39, she "had for probably like two and a half, three years, just had been struggling with energy, brain fog.", reports Birmingham Live. "I feel like my personality changes, things that would really irritate me...I just didn't feel as vibrant."
She also expressed her sorrow over her fertility ending. "I actually have a lot of grief around it," LeAnn admitted. "I've never had children of my own and so to think that's a piece of me that is winding down. It's not done yet but it's winding down. I dont know."
"I'm dealing with the grief of it. It's not like changing my mind to go and have my own child. There's a part of me that would absolutely love it and at the same time I know my whole life would change and I would throw my whole life into that child."
