Anna Richardson will "never get used to" heartbreak.
Anna Richardson will 'never get used to' heartbreak
The 51-year-old TV presenter struck up a relationship with former 'Great British Bake Off' co-host Sue Perkins, 52, in 2014 but the pair split in 2021, and Anna has admitted she is yet to find out how to "solve" heartbreak and "become stronger" afterwards.
She said: "No one can ever prepare you for it. Even when it happens a handful of times in your life, you just never quite get used to it. I suppose I don’t know whether you become more resilient as you get older, but heartbreak definitely is still that mystery that needs to be solved, and how to get over it and become stronger.”
However, the 'Naked Attraction' host - who was initially in a relationship with producer Charles Martin between 1996 and 2014 - admitted in recent times the biggest challenge she has faced has been that of ageing.
Asked what her most recent challenge has been, she told OK! magazine: "I was thinking about this earlier on and you know what? Honestly, it’s been ageing, and hitting 50. We all used to get really hung up about hitting 40. I’m telling you, you wait until you get into your late forties, early fifties."
The star explained that once she hit the menopause, she suffered the "visceral realisation" that she would never become a mother and is worried about the "declining" years ahead of her.
She said: "You hit the menopause, you start thinking, ‘Am I in the right marriage?’ And for a lot of my friends, who are going through divorces, you start thinking, ‘Oh God, I forgot to have children. What now?' It’s a really fundamental and visceral realisation [if you haven’t had children] that, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do that anymore.’ Even if I wanted to!'
"[Thinking about the future] leaves me with slow, inexorable dread. It seems to be a bit of a decline. And it’s very, very difficult."
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