Broadcaster says on new BBC podcast that perimenopause made her feel like she had lost her identity
Emma Barnett has said experiencing perimenopause at the age of 38 felt as if she had been “mugged, robbed” of her identity.
The broadcaster, now 40, said on her new BBC podcast, Ready to Talk with Emma Barnett, that it was the “first time in my life I haven’t really wanted to be a woman – it’s the first time I’ve thought, I’d really quite like to be a bloke”.
She said perimenopause made her feel as though she had lost her identity, and that she was still waiting to “come back” to who she was before.
Speaking to guest Kate Thornton, she said: “I do feel there has been a theft. I do feel there’s no emergency number to call. ‘I’d like to report a crime. Yeah, someone stole me.’ There is no one to report this to.”
