{"id":357999,"date":"2026-03-21T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357999\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T15:46:11","slug":"mariella-frostrup-my-dad-wasnt-sending-any-money-my-stepfather-had-buggered-off-we-had-no-income-and-were-living-off-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357999\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariella Frostrup: \u2018My dad wasn\u2019t sending any money, my stepfather had buggered off. We had no income and were living off potatoes\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Since first speaking out her own experience eight years ago, the broadcaster has been a passionate menopause advocate. Here, she talks about those still suffering in silence, the sexual invisibility of women in their 60s and how her Irish childhood shaped her\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mariella Frostrup. Photo: Kate Martin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/d0a721a7-a665-4dff-9537-7e8333dbd771.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mariella Frostrup. Photo: Kate Martin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With her husky voice and deliciously crisp accent, Mariella Frostrup has been a media giant in the UK for decades, straddling the TV, newspaper, music, publishing and movie industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Which makes some of the starker details of her Irish childhood all the more arresting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since first speaking out her own experience eight years ago, the broadcaster has been a passionate menopause advocate.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,12359,12271],"class_list":["post-357999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-menopause","tag-tanya-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}