Michelle Heaton says she ‘hated herself’ after uncontrollable menopause rage made her kids cry
MICHELLE Heaton has revealed she 'hated herself' for 'uncontrollable mood swings' and 'making her kids cry' due to the menopause.
The former Liberty X star - who is mum to Faith, six and AJ, four - opened up to, before the release of her book Hot Flush: Motherhood, The Menopause and Me.
The 38-year-old has always been open about her struggles.
She had an elective double mastectomy in November 2012 then a hysterectomy in 2014, after she discovered she carried the BRCA2 gene mutation and had a high risk of getting cancer.
Speaking about her mood swings, The Real Full Monty star said: "There are quite a few moments of my raging, how intolerable I am with my kids, and how ashamed I am when things happen.
"There's a moment when I made Faith cry so much into her pillow in her bedroom and it wasn't even her fault."
Speaking about what people can expect from the book, she added: "I think people need to brave themselves because it's quite honest, to the point that when I read it back I hated me."
The singer also confessed she blames herself for son AJ getting meningitis when he was just six weeks old, as she couldn't breast-feed him.
She admitted: “I should have spoken to my doctor about my flagging libido sooner than I did.
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“I battled it for about a year before I had the courage to raise it.
“There was a simple resolution, a change to the oestrogen-only HRT I’d been on since the operation.
"I’m now on testosterone and oestrogen, which has put it back on track.”
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