{"id":50270,"date":"2023-10-31T23:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/robbie-williams-is-suffering-through-the-manopause-im-f-knackered-from-the-nineties\/"},"modified":"2023-10-31T23:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T23:01:39","slug":"robbie-williams-is-suffering-through-the-manopause-im-f-knackered-from-the-nineties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/31\/robbie-williams-is-suffering-through-the-manopause-im-f-knackered-from-the-nineties\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbie Williams is suffering through the &apos;manopause&apos;: &apos;I&apos;m f****** knackered from the Nineties!&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-10-31\" datetime=\"1698793299\" pubdate=\"\">31 October 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/robbie-williams\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,robbie-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robbie Williams<\/a> is enduring the \u201cmanopause\u201d. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Robbie Williams is enduring the \u2018manopause\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The former Take That singer, who will turn 50 in February, says the condition has left him fighting baldness, a plummeting libido, insomnia and crippling tiredness. <\/p>\n<p>Dad-of-four Robbie \u2013 who has his kids with 44-year-old wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/ayda-field\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,ayda-field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ayda Field<\/a> \u2013 told The Sun about ageing leaving him \u201cknackered\u201d: \u201cThe hair is thinning, the testosterone has left the building, the serotonin is not really here and the dopamine said goodbye a long time ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve used up all of the natural good stuff. I\u2019ve got the manopause. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter says to me, \u2018Daddy\u2019s lazy\u2019. I don\u2019t like the term \u2018lazy\u2019 as that\u2019s how I was described when I was younger. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe reality is that I\u2019m just f****** knackered from what I did to myself in the Nineties and bits of the 2000s.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nRobbie has been open about beating his addictions to food and drugs after he left Take That, and has also kicked being hooked on the sleeping pill Zopiclone. <\/p>\n<p>\nHe added about his difficulty sleeping despite his nightly lethargy: \u201cI have a different sleep pattern to other people. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI\u2019m magnetically drawn to 4am and falling asleep at six and there\u2019s nothing I can do about it. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI go to bed at 11pm and I\u2019m just lying there completely awake and completely alert until 5am. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s one of the banes of Ayda\u2019s existence that she doesn\u2019t get me until 1pm.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nThe male menopause is also known as andropause and can hit men in their late 40s and early 50s. <\/p>\n<p>\nExperts say symptoms include mood swings, loss of sex drive and muscle mass as well as insomnia and a lack of a short-term memory. <\/p>\n<p>\nRobbie also recently told The Times he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. <\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: \u201cObviously I have an addictive personality. I haven\u2019t got narcissistic personality disorder or split personality disorder, though. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI looked at them last week and, obviously, I chose all the worst options. So, if I did have it, I would proudly tell you. But I am collecting them all, like Scout badges.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/robbie-williams-suffering-manopause-knackered-nineties-1387664.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31 October 2023 Robbie Williams is enduring the \u201cmanopause\u201d. Robbie Williams is enduring the \u2018manopause\u2019 The former Take That singer, who will turn 50 in February, says the condition has left him fighting baldness, a plummeting libido, insomnia and crippling tiredness. Dad-of-four Robbie \u2013 who has his kids with 44-year-old wife Ayda Field \u2013 told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1693,1692],"class_list":{"0":"post-50270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-ayda-field","9":"tag-robbie-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}