The mum-of-four said the condition is “such a hinderance and people who don’t have it don’t understand”
Abbey Clancy spoke out about her anxiety on The Therapy Crouch
Abbey Clancy has opened up about the “horrible” condition she faces every day. In the latest episode of her hit podcast The Therapy Crouch, airing on January 9, Abbey said she and her husband, former Liverpool striker Peter Crouch, received a letter from a listener writing about her crippling fear of flying.
The letter said how the listener had only flown once and asked how Abbey deals with her own anxiety. Moving the conversation on, Peter asked Abbey about her own battle with anxiety.
She said: “Anxiety is a horrendous thing, it’s such a hinderance to have and people who don’t have it don’t understand. It’s horrible.” She continued to discuss how it affected her while on a recent holiday.
Abbey said: “We had to drive over these mountains and cross borders and I literally thought I was going to throw up and faint and I just could not stop, could I? To the point where my two little boys were hugging me, saying ‘mum, it’s okay’, which is so unfair for them.”
Abbey explained on the podcast, while sat next to her 43-year-old husband, how she woke up the morning they recorded the episode with the “worst butterflies” in her stomach as a result of her anxiety. The model turned podcast star has been open about her mental health struggles.
The Liverpool-born mum-of-four has since started another podcast which runs alongside The Therapy Crouch, Exhibit A. On Exhibit A, she talks to various successful people or medical professionals, often touching on stress and anxiety.
She told MailOnline: “I really suffer from health anxiety, and the worst thing you can do is Google symptoms. It is something that I always do, and I have had to train myself out of it.
“I do scare myself sometimes with self-diagnosing, which I don’t recommend anyone to do. But this is something I’ve been working on, and I have tried hypnotherapy for it, and it does work. It does work.”