Frankie Bridge teamed up with Kaye Adams on the Loose Women podcast as they opened up about their personal struggles
Loose Women's Frankie Bridge has opened up about explaining her depression to her children, as she admitted "I don't want them to have a brain like me".
This week, it was Frankie Bridge and Kaye Adams who were tasked with taking on the Loose Women podcast as it aired its third episode to tackle the taboos around talking to your children about mental health and the acceptance of women ageing.
On a previous episode of the podcast, Denise Welch and Ayda Field teamed up to discuss addiction, surrogacy, motherhood and Hollywood crushes. Among the more serious of topics, Ayda opened up about feeling "shame" as she opted for a surrogate while her friend was pregnant at the same time.
She shared: "I felt deep shame that she got to be pregnant and I wasn't".
During the most recent instalment, Frankie admitted she has struggled when trying to discuss her mental health battles with her children, she said: "It's a hard one because I feel like my answer should be that they know everything.
"I feel like I should have had the conversation with them, that I do suffer with depression and anxiety, but I think it's a hard conversation to have with them because I don't know how much of it they really understand."
She continued: "I didn't really realise how much that had sat with him until my birthday a couple of months ago. Wayne said to me, ‘Look, there's a present that Carter wanted me to get for you’... When I opened it, it was two boxes of ibuprofen and he said to Wayne, ‘Should we get her something that can help with migraines because she gets them really bad, doesn't she?’ and then that's why he'd got them.
"Actually, I just thought that was so sweet but then I thought, I'm really going to have to explain this to him. Otherwise, every time when he's growing up, someone cries, he’s going to think they've got a migraine."
Co-host for the episode, Kaye Adams, who regularly leads the Loose Women panel then asked Frankie if she's ever worried that her sons will also suffer with their mental health. The Saturdays star replied: "100%. I always said from the moment I was pregnant, I always said, ‘Oh, I hope they're more like Wayne than me’ because I just don't want them to have a brain that works like mine."
The podcast was launched on Tuesday 4th March to celebrate International Women's Day and sees a different duo each week as they tackle various topics, and share personal stories from their own experiences.
Later on in the episode, Kaye discussed how she's struggled with having to wear a hearing aid as she added: "I did [struggle] because I suppose that was a signal of just not functioning as well anymore, sort of degrading a little bit.
"I've completely changed my tune on that now, in that I wear hearing aids, I'm happy to show anyone my hearing aids. They allow me to participate in life much better, more actively, I have no problem with that at all. But, you know, when you get that first little sign."
Kaye ended the podcast by sharing some advice with Frankie, in which she said: "And this too will pass. You know nothing is forever. Things do change and you can get yourself in a real kind of deep place, a deep hole, but this too will pass and you've just got to hang on. You've sometimes got to, to really hold those really difficult emotions and know that they are going to go, that you're going to move on, that it's going to move on and it's going to go forward."
