Andrea McLean makes emotional return to Loose Women after hysterectomy: ‘As a woman I’ve had my engine removed’

The 47-year-old presenter took six weeks off to have the operation 
Big return: Andrea McLean returns to Loose Women following her hysterectomy
Ken McKay/ITV/REX
Jennifer Ruby8 November 2016
The Weekender

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Andrea McLean made an emotional return to the Loose Women panel just a few weeks after having a hysterectomy.

The TV presenter, 47, shared the details of the operation during Monday's show, saying that she felt like her ‘engine’ had been removed.

“I played everything down… but as a woman I've had my engine removed,” she said.

“I had endometriosis and that's why I took the decision; it can spread and it had spread to my bladder and large intestine.

“It takes a long time to get over that, let alone having your engine removed.

McLean, who already has two children from previous relationships, says she was hit by a ‘wave’ of realisation that she’d never be able to have children with current partner Nick Feeney.

”It's interesting because I’m an incredibly level person,” she said.

“Me and Nick met later in life and both have our own children, but I was sitting and looking at Nick and I was thinking how lucky I am and there was just this wave that we'll never have children together.

“And I said to Nick "If we had children what do you think they would they be like? I said "Do you think we’d have a son because you don’t have a son, you have daughters," and then his eyes filled up.

“We had a little moment but now it’s all good.'”

Speaking about the operation , she said: “It’s just coming up to six weeks now, there’s physical things to get over but my biggest fear was mentally falling over a cliff because that’s menopause.

“My life is really great at the moment and I didn’t want to do anything to spoil it but luckily apart from a couple of hormonal moments, touch-wood its fine.”

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