Davina McCall: ‘Menopause is a societal problem’

Conversations around menopause have gone from taboo to mainstream. It’s about time, says woman on a mission, Davina McCall

Davina McCall has penned her experience with the menopause in her new book, Menopausing. She’s even trademarked the word.

Davina McCall famously looks after herself, and it shows — she is not so much surface shine as inner glow. Since 2004, in a lucrative side hustle to her television presenting, she’s released 14 DVDs, four books and an app around fitness and nutrition. Her next book, Menopausing, is out later this year. She’s even trademarked the word.

The day I speak with her she is celebrating her 30th sobriety birthday — she quit drugs and alcohol when she was 24. She did this with the support of an ex-lover, Eric Clapton, after a tricky childhood with an even trickier mother, followed by heroin addiction and alcoholism, before going on to become one of TV’s most popular — and health-conscious — presenters.