Penny Lancaster threw plates in rage after losing control with Rod Stewart and sons
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Loose Women's Penny Lancaster opened up about a moment of frustration that saw dinner plates flying across her kitchen.
On the Loose Women podcast with Coleen Nolan, Penny looked back at the trials she faced while battling health issues amid the Covid-19 lockdowns. Recalling the difficult time, she revealed how a seemingly normal evening meal preparation for her rock star husband Sir Rod Stewart and their children Alastair and Aidan, turned into "disaster".
She said: "One of my hugest disasters wasn't so much the cooking, it was where it ended up, it ended up on the walls."
When quizzed about what led to the incident, she shared that it was during the lockdown when dealing with menopause that things spiralled.
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She said: "It was during lockdown when I was going through the menopause, I went through a depression and I'd made this dinner for my boys and my husband and I was calling out and calling out because it was endless breakfast, lunch and dinner forever."
Her breaking point came when, despite her repeated calls, her family seemed indifferent, leading to a dramatic reaction as they eventually entered the kitchen.
Detailing the meltdown, she said: "I was fed up that they weren't coming down when I'd asked them, and then finally when they walked into the kitchen I'd had enough, I literally picked up the plates and burst into tears and threw them across the kitchen, so the dinner's ended up on the walls and I'd ended up on the floor in a crumpled mess."
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Following the incident, Penny recalled how Rod swiftly stepped in to calm things down and offer her support: "Rod just went 'boys quick, just leave mummy, leave mummy, give her a minute' and he came over to me and said 'sorry darling, are you okay?' and then the boys came in and they all helped to clear up and they were like 'I'm sorry mummy'."
Penny has been married to the legendary musician since 2007, having first crossed paths with him at the swanky Dorchester Hotel in London back in 1999.
Since their wedding 18 years ago, the couple have welcomed two sons, Alastair Wallace Stewart in 2005 followed by Aiden Patrick Stewart six years on.
Before finding love with Penny, Rod had walked down the aisle twice previously, with Alana Stewart and Rachel Hunter, and is a father to eight children from five different relationships.
The NHS outlines that menopause typically impacts women between the ages of 45 and 55, though it can sometimes start earlier.
Leading up to menopause, women undergo the perimenopause phase, which often presents many similar symptoms to those of menopause itself.
Symptoms such as "anxiety, mood swings, brain fog, hot flushes and irregular periods" are common during this transitional period.
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