'I was the crazy chicken woman': Penny Lancaster used to hide away when in the grip of menopause symptoms
Lady Penny Lancaster used to "hide" with the chickens when she started going through menopause. The 54-year-old model and presenter recalled experiencing "a few mental breakdowns" when she and her husband Sir Rod Stewart, 79, and their two sons Alistair, 18, and Aiden, 13, returned to Britain in the early days of the Covid pandemic in 2020, and she used to retreat into the garden to cope with the debilitating anxiety she was battling as a result of the changes to her body, which were undiagnosed at that point. She told The Times newspaper: “I had a few… what I could classify as ‘mental breakdo...