Gabby Logan has revealed she told her husband and children she was going to leave them during a menopause “meltdown”. The presenter, 51, who is fronting the BBC ’s Euros 2023 coverage in Germany, has been with her husband, former Scotland rugby international Kenny Logan – who was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2022 – since 1999 when they met in a bar and were married two years later. Logan said she realised she was perimenopausal when she was 47 but was unprepared for the emotional side of reaching “the midpoint” of life that began to affect her relationship.
Logan admitted she told her husband and their two teenage twins, Lois and Reuben – who were 14 at the time – she was going to move out of their family home and get a flat for herself in Beaconsfield. Speaking to The Times about her new book, The Midpoint Plan , Logan said her new life plan had been “totally random” and brought both her children close to tears when she sat them down to deliver the news. “It was over something small, like the kids not clearing up after breakfast,” she said.
“That was probably my lowest point, my mini-crisis. It was the time when I was feeling, this is not me and this isn’t how I cope with things.” During the menopause, women experience changes in hormone levels, which can cause mood swings, low mood and anxiety.
To manage her symptoms, Logan was prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which boosts oestrogen levels and other hormones and helps to all.
