ITV The Voice's LeAnn Rimes had '3 years of struggling' with health symptoms including 'personality changes'

The Voice star LeAnn Rimes has been open about her struggles experiencing perimenopause from age 39. The country singing superstar said she had been 'struggling' for three years before she realised what her symptoms were suggesting.

The star, now 42, had a lack of energy, brain fog and experienced 'personality changes'. Opening up about experiencing perimenopause - the time around menopause when your ovaries gradually stop working - on the Resetter Podcast with Dr Mindy Pelz in April, LeAnn also said she faced mood swings, weight fluctuations, and grief over her fertility ending.

LeAnn said: "I'd been struggling for a while like maybe three years. I probably started going into perimenopause earlier than I realised.

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"I'd gotten off the pill and had no idea where my hormones were." LeAnn added when she was 39 she "had for probably like two and a half, three years, just had been struggling with energy, brain fog.

"I feel like my personality changes, things that would really irritate me...I just didn't feel as vibrant." She also spoke of her grief over her fertility ending.

"I actually have a lot of grief around it," LeAnn said. "I've never had children of my own and so to think that's a piece of me that is winding down. It's not done yet but it's winding down. I dont know.

"Im dealing with the grief of it. It's not like changing my mind to go and have my own child.

"There's a part of me that would absolutely love it and at the same time I know my whole life would change and I would throw my whole life into that child."