Davina McCall fears for her daughters taking contraceptive capsule after ‘chaotic’ teenagers
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avina McCall has voiced her issues as a mom about her daughters taking the contraceptive pill and opened up about her personal experiences of taking it.
The TV presenter, 55, beforehand investigated the menopause which helped to empower a era of ignored ladies.
She is now turning her consideration to the contraceptive capsule with a brand new Channel 4 documentary, The Pill, that can shine a lightweight on how – 60 years after the way it was first made out there – ladies who don’t need to fall pregant nonetheless face a lot of undesirable negative effects.
McCall, who’s mum to daughters Holly, 21, Tillie, 19 and son Chester, 16, has revealed that each of her daughters have tried the capsule and whereas one acquired on advantageous with it, the opposite appeared to wrestle.
“Both of my daughters took the pill, and one of them got on absolutely fine with it but my younger one had a terrible time in sixth form with her mental health and she has often wondered whether her pill contributed to that,” she informed OK! Online.
Davina McCall shared how she herself was on the capsule aged 15
/ Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesMcCall was simply 15 when she secretly obtained the capsule towards her dad’s needs.
While she finally went on to swap the capsule for the Mirena coil, the London-born star now wonders if the artificial hormones she was placing into her physique had a detrimental impact on her personal psychological well being.
Despite now being an advocate for well being and train, McCall has been open prior to now about her leisure drug use as a teen which escalated into heroin dependancy in her twenties.
“My life was quite chaotic and emotional at the time, as it is for many teenagers, and it’s very hard to say how much of a part the pill played in that. I’ve got no idea,” she mirrored.
“Mood changes are widely recognised as a potential side effect of hormonal contraception. But when it comes to depression or anxiety, the research is limited,” she added to the publication.