Penny Lancaster was all smiles as she attended the first day of the Boodles 2024 at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire on Tuesday, just a few days after she revealed she had a breakdown four years ago following her struggle with undiagnosed menopause.
The former model, 53, looked in her element as she attended the Boodles gallery and enjoyed a spot of jewellery shopping before the tennis kicked off.
Flashing a smile for the camera, she donned a delicate set of sparkling gold and silver loop earrings, which matched her long necklace of the same style.
Penny, who has been married to Rod Stewart since 2007, flashed her hand up to the camera to reveal a huge sparkly pink and gold ring on her right hand, as well as an assortment of glittering chain-style bracelets on her wrist.
She opted for a very colourful satin-style dress, complete with purple lace along the neckline.
Penny Lancaster was all smiles as she attended the first day of the Boodles 2024 at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire on Tuesday
The former model, 53, looked in her element as she attended the Boodles gallery and enjoyed a spot of jewellery shopping before the tennis kicked off
Flashing a smile for the camera, she donned a delicate set of sparkling gold and silver loop earrings, which matched her long necklace of the same style
The former model paired the summer frock with a multicoloured geometric bag and swept her blonde curls back into a neat updo.
In one image, she looked a picture of happiness as she browsed some necklaces with the shop assistants.
The appearance comes just after Penny bravely opened up to The Times about how menopause ‘hit her like a truck’ four years ago, leading her to have several ‘breakdowns’.
She admitted it was so bad she was worried if her marriage would survive, and after being misdiagnosed with depression, it was her team at Loose Women who staged an intervention.
When she first started experiencing symptoms, Penny and Sir Rod, 79, alongside their two sons Alistair, 18, and Aiden, 13, had just decamped their home in Florida and moved back to the UK during lockdown.
Speaking of the moment Rod told her “You can’t carry on the like this”, Penny told the outlet: ‘I picked up the plates and I threw them across the kitchen. Which is an outrageous thing to think of — who the hell would throw the dinner?
‘I threw these plates of food across the kitchen as hard as I could, to make as much noise as I could. As if the noise… as if someone would wake up, someone would notice me, someone would have the answer.
‘I collapsed on the floor in a heap, burst into tears, shaking in the corner. Of course, it was an absolute shock to Rod and the boys. Rod just went, “Boys, in the other room. Leave Mummy.”
In one image, she looked a picture of happiness as she browsed some necklaces with the shop assistants
The former model paired the summer frock with a multicoloured geometric bag and swept her blonde curls back into a neat updo
Penny recently recalled the moment her husband Rod Stewart urged her to seek medical help after she threw plates across the kitchen in front of their two sons (pictured last year)
‘He came over and said, “It’s all right, darling. It’s OK, it’s OK.”I was shaking. “I can’t do this. What the hell is going on with me?” I thought I was going mad. Rod said, “Right, we’ve got to get you to the doctor’s. You can’t carry on like this. There’s got to be an answer. There’s got to be something.”
Luckily, Penny revealed the plates didn’t hit anyone but they had to redecorate the kitchen.
Following symptoms such as an unusual discomfort at night and feeling her blood boil to wake up freezing cold at night, the model finally had the chance to see her GP and was diagnosed with depression.
But then it was the Loose Women team who alerted Penny she might have been going through menopause instead.
They informed her about Dr Louise Newson, an increasingly celebrated menopause specialist who ‘holds back an emergency slot every day in her surgery for suicidal women’.
Penny joined the doctor on one of her emergency slots and was diagnosed over a Zoom call.
