She was hired by the BBC in the mid 1980s to host music show No Limits (and can still remember her first interview – Annabella Lwin from Bow Wow Wow), before moving into Saturday morning kids’ TV on UP2U on BBC One with Anthea Turner and Tony Dortie, and later Gimme 5 on ITV.
The former Wheel Of Fortune star, 56, started experiencing peri-menopausal symptoms about nine years ago but says the last two years have been horrendous – and she thinks it’s time women’s health was taken more seriously.
The idea of “getting used to it” bothers Jenny almost as much as her physical symptoms, but as a busy working mum to Constance, 24, and Pollyanna, 16, her own needs often came last.
However, on a family holiday last summer, sun-loving Jenny, who presents a weekend Breakfast Club show on Greatest Hits Radio, stripped off to her bikini (“because I don’t see why I shouldn’t at my age!” she laughs) and some paparazzi shots highlighted something deeply worrying.
Those of us in our fifties are the first sort of all-singing, all-dancing generation because we’re working, we’re keeping fit, we’re looking after our parents, our children, and we haven’t got time, so we just think, ‘I can live with that.’ But what we think is acceptable just isn’t.”.
