Lorraine Keane: Periods felt like something you shouldn't talk about for my generation. I don't want my girls to feel that

Lorraine Keane: It’s really important that we talk about [periods] so that it’s not something that women have to hide

When I got my first period, my mum celebrated. She said, ‘you’ve got a healthy body, it might not feel like this at the moment, but you’ll understand when you’re a little bit older.’ My granny didn’t talk about periods and that made [my mum] feel like it was a dirty little secret, something to be embarrassed or ashamed of.

My mum made such a big deal about it being a good thing that she even told my dad, which I was horrified about. Even though my mum approached it in that manner, it still felt like something, for my generation, that you shouldn’t talk about.