Una Healy may be 43, but the Tipperary woman has revealed that she feels like a 25-year-old. The mum-of-two has opened up about her age, explaining that she is perfectly happy to get older and wiser.
The former Saturdays star explained that there are plenty of positive changes that come with ageing, saying that she feels that she 'knows herself better' and so is better able to decipher between activities that will make her feel good and what won't.
Una said that she is currently going through perimenopause, adding that she has no issue sharing that information because she doesn't believe there should be any shame around it. She spoke to Lisa Snowdon & Andy Goldstein on their podcast, We’re Not Getting Any Younger.
'I'm definitely in the peri (stage), but people are scared and they think it's taboo to be perimenopausal, but it can take up to ten or fifteen years to reach menopause, people still have babies and everything in peri, it's not anything to be ashamed of. It's just getting older.'
Host and former model Lisa agreed with Una, saying that there is a picture painted of a woman going through menopause as being 'old, and dried up.'
She said: 'When you think about a menopausal woman, this image of a white haired lady bent over with a walking stick comes up,' explaining that she feels that couldn't be further from reality.
Una added that she is an advocate of the 'things you can do and take so you don't have to go through the pain of perimenopause and menopause.'
'You can forever take your replacement therapy HRT for your body not to go into that shock of losing your oestrogen and progesterone,' she said, saying that she began treating her perimenopause when she began having 'terrible night sweats.'
'I have none of that now,' she told the podcasters. 'That's probably why I feel 25 again because hormonally I am,' Una laughed.
That's not the only thing the singer does for her health. She also attends the gym three times a week and goes for long walks as often as possible, on top of eating well.
Lisa commended Una for 'really doing her homework' on the topic, with the singer admitting: 'I didn't know any of this two years ago.'
