Lady Zoe Warren, an acquaintance of the Princess of Wales at Royal Ascot and friend of Prince Harry, has revealed that she was told it would be “complicated” for her to have children after a childhood accident left her with only one ovary.
Zoe, 40, the wellness guru wife of Princess Diana’s godson, horse breeder Jake Warren, was kicked in the stomach by a horse at the age of nine and required emergency surgery to remove a kidney. and an ovary.
“They had told me it was going to be difficult for me to have children,” she said. The times.
The yoga teacher, daughter of the 14th Earl of Galloway, Andrew Stewart and Sara Pollock, has had to deal with a series of health problems since the accident.
Zoe developed cysts on her remaining ovary in her teens and, when she was a student at Newcastle University, suffered from severe perimenopausal symptoms, although she didn’t know it at the time.
Wellbeing guru Lady Zoe Warren (left) pictured with Kate Middleton on the second day of Royal Ascot on June 15, 2016.
Speaking to The Times, she was candid about the hot sweats, brain fog and insomnia that blighted her twenties.
‘I had a combination of hot sweats every two minutes but I had no idea why, my anxiety was huge, there was brain fog and lack of concentration, and severe insomnia. And then recurrent UTIs (urinary tract infections),” she said.
But despite suffering symptoms that were unusual for a woman her age, it wasn’t until she was 28 that she was told she was perimenopausal, probably because it is so unusual for women under 30.
Although Zoe “felt relieved” to have received a diagnosis, she admits she “still had no idea” what her body was going through.
Zoe, who was treated with HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and testosterone, told how she also learned to help herself with “movement, mindfulness and other ways outside of standard medication.”
In the midst of her struggle with perimenopausal symptoms, Zoe was able to conceive. At 30, she gave birth to twins India and Zalie, who, as Prince Harry’s goddaughter, was a bridesmaid at her wedding to Meghan Markle in 2018. Her youngest daughter, Coco, followed four years after.
Now eager to help others, the mother of three runs a subscription service called Peachy with Zoe, which offers a wide range of wellness tips, as well as yoga classes and workshops.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Zoe raised thousands of pounds for the NHS through her online yoga teaching.
Zoe, 40, pictured with her horse breeder husband Jake Warren, godson of the late Princess Diana.
Zoe and Jake’s daughter Zalie (right) is Prince Harry’s goddaughter and was a bridesmaid at his wedding to Meghan Markle in 2018.
Zoe, daughter of the 14th Earl of Galloway, became a lockdown hero after raising thousands of dollars for the NHS through her online yoga lessons.
The philanthropic yogini requested charitable donations in exchange for her weekly virtual classes, which featured socialites including Daisy Hambro and the Princess of Wales’s best friend Sophie Snuggs.
“Many of us try to run away from our negative emotions and do things that numb them,” he said, speaking with The times in 2021.
‘So we avoid them. It is part of being human and yet they are seen as negative and we are encouraged not to look at them. Whereas if we do, we give them less power.
Zoe, who admits she is a “worrier” and can “overthink things,” went on to say that while she hasn’t suffered “excessively” from anxiety, she did experience a moment in her twenties when she was “trying to be peaceful”. someone else.’
She continued: ‘That gets exhausting. Maybe the older you get, the less you try and give in, and that becomes very liberating, to be yourself.”
‘You want to be the same person to your children as you are to your friends. “When someone is authentic, there is instant trust.”
Zoe went on to say that anyone who stands up for mental health awareness is “brilliant,” adding that “everyone’s voice is worthy,” whether they’re “well-known or not.”
The yoga enthusiast, who did not directly refer to Prince Harry, said: “I absolutely think anyone who advocates for mental health awareness is brilliant.” What anyone can do.
‘Everyone’s voice is worthy, right? Whether you are well known or not. The story of each one is worthy.”
He added: ‘And yes, I think it’s really important. I wish you all luck in everything you do as people try to create more satisfaction, more awareness.’
When Prince Harry’s five-part mental health-focused AppleTV+ documentary series The Me You Can’t See was brought up, she explained that she didn’t know anything about it.
During the episode, the Duke of Sussex dropped another nuclear ‘truth bomb’ on the Royal Family accusing them of ‘total silence’ and ‘negligence’ when Meghan was suicidal.
He claimed his father, Prince Charles, made him “suffer” as a child and insisted he would not be “bullied into silence” when he alleged “The Firm” “trapped” them, defamed them and abandoned them.