Natalie Barr was left disgusted by Matt Shirvington’s disturbing shower confession live on air.
During Tuesday morning’s Sunrise, the 45-year-old admitted he was ‘guilty’ of urinating in his shower ‘every day’.
‘You’re all liars if you have never peed in the shower,’ he declared to his co-hosts Barr, Edwina Bartholomew and Mark Beretta.
‘Warm water in the shower is my kryptonite. I could pee 100 times before I get in the shower and it just happens again.’
Shirvo’s fellow Sunrise team were shocked with the on-air revelation and began asking several intimate questions about his bathing habits.
‘In your own shower, it’s a regular thing? … in your own shower? Really?’ a horrified Barr asked.
‘Stop it! I’ve peed in the shower. I admit it. I don’t need to go through the details of how often I do it,’ Shrivo replied.
Bartholomew also admitted to urinating in her shower, before asking her colleagues in the studio to raise their hand if they do the ‘gross’ act too.
Natalie Barr was left disgusted by Matt Shirvington ‘s disturbing shower confession live on air
The topic sparked after studies showed that urinating in the shower can be bad for women.
A US obstetrician recently went viral revealing that the act could be damaging to a female’s gynaecological health.
‘Peeing standing up could damage your pelvic floor muscles if you build mental association with running water, leaving having to run to the loo more often,’ Bartholomew said.
Meanwhile, in 2022, Urogynaecologist Dr Teresa Irwin took to TikTok to share her musings on the subject.
She stated that it is both bad for men and woman and explained that while it will empty the bladder correctly while standing up, it also trains your brain to release urine every time you hear water running.
During Tuesday morning’s Sunrise, the 45-year-old admitted he was ‘guilty’ of urinating in his shower ‘every day’
‘You don’t want to do it all the time because what happens is every time you hear the sound of water your bladder is going to want to pee – because it’s used to hearing the sound of the water in the shower,’ she explained.
‘So whenever you’re washing your hands, washing the dishes, your bladder is going to be salivating so to speak because it wants to go and pee.’
Dr Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas, who is a Boston-based pelvic floor therapist, agreed with Dr Irwin, detailing the dangerous side effects that can come from peeing while standing under a running stream of water.
‘If you pee while the water is running then you’re creating an association in your brain between the sound of running water and having to pee,’ she told her 468,000 followers on TikTok in 2021.
Without a strong pelvic floor, this ‘could potentially lead to some leak issues when you hear running water outside of the shower,’ she added.
Not to mention people born with female anatomy ‘were not designed to pee standing up’.
