New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Kate’s all aflush ‘I FEARED I WAS LOSING MY MIND’

As Newshub’s entertainment editor, Kate Rodger is used to seeing her email inbox rapidly fill with messages after she’s given some action movie a two-star review, when clearly to others it was worthy of five. But lately, her inbox has been overflowing with messages of a different kind.

Since recently appearing on The AM Show to share her honest experience of menopause, the bubbly 54-year-old has been contacted every day by women suffering the same symptoms – and often in secrecy.

“They’ve all disclosed with me a different version of the same story, which is that they didn’t know what was happening to them or they now feel validated,” tells Kate, determined to break the taboo.

“I’m saddened to hear from women in abject misery due to menopausal symptoms,

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