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BY AMY PACKER
FOR Luisa Zissman, it was one
of the most embarrassing
moments of her life. And she’s
appeared on The Apprentice.
While performing a fitness test to
qualify for a charity horse race, she
lost control of her bladder. “I was
doing my ‘bleep test’ where you run
back and forth between two beeps
which get faster and faster and
honestly I had no control,” admits
the 32-year-old from Herts.
“I wet myself to the point you
could see it. It was a full-on wet
patch front and back, in front of 20
people – including a television film
crew with the cameras rolling.
“That was one of the most
embarrassing things that has ever
happened to me, but I’m competitive
so I didn’t want to stop running
because I didn’t want to fail. All I
could say was ‘I’ve had three kids!’.
“I just had to try to front it out and
said, ‘Guys, we’ve all seen Paula
Radcliffe do it on TV ’. I had worn
two pairs of pants and a pad and it
still came through.”
Luisa first experienced urinary
incontinence when she was
pregnant with her third child,
Clementine, who is now 18 months.
“I had morning sickness and when I
puked I would pee myself. At the
time I thought it was the weight of
the baby, but about three months
after she was born I got a sickness
bug and it happened again.
“I think having a third baby tipped
me over the edge. After Dixie, who is
nine, I was fine but I got pregnant
with Clementine when my second
baby, Indigo, was only five months
and she was the trickiest birth. She
got stuck and the consultant had to
manipulate her to get her out.
“I don’t know if my problem is
caused by trauma or just having two
consecutive babies very quickly, but
now whether I’m sneezing, laughing
or running I pee myself. The only
forms of exercise I can do without
wetting myself are Pilates and
horse riding.”
It’s a relief for the Celebrity Big
Brother star that she hasn’t had to
give up her horse due to the problem
- she’s been riding since she was four
and this August is taking part in the
Magnolia Cup, a charity horse race
at Goodwood, to raise funds for
Wellbeing of Women.
“I’m proud to be racing
for an amazing charity,” she
says. “They do loads of
research into urinary
incontinence and chatting
about my issue has been
really interesting. From
what I heard when I visited
their offices, Botox might
even be able to help me.”
Luisa is certainly not
alone. Incontinence is a
significant issue for approximately
three million women in the UK. Six
weeks after pregnancy, 33% of
women report urinary incontinence
and one in three will suffer from it at
some point.
“I’m quite open about my problem
now and just say, ‘Oh my God, I’m
peeing’ if I have an accident around
friends. I feel like loads of women
actually suffer but don’t talk about it.
“Once, while making my podcast,
Loose Lips, I laughed so much that
my co-host Anna Williamson
thought I’d lost control of my bowels
as well. But I had peed so much it
had made my fake tan run, which
had stained my clothes. I had to go
and change.” Luisa has used several
gadgets to try and solve the problem,
“I used this manual Kegel exerciser
and one which was a bit like a
Slendertone. You insert it and it
electrocutes the muscles but that
put me right off so I only used it a
couple of times,” she says.
And now she is only just starting
to have medical investigations to get
to the bottom of her issues.
“I’ve seen a doctor, Linda Cardozo,
who is professor of urogynaecology
at King’s College Hospital,” she says.
“She the leading doctor and I’ve only
had my first appointment but she
says I’ve a weak pelvic floor and need
further tests.
“I’ve got to go under general
anaesthetic to have a biopsy, a
cystoscopy and a load of other
things. To be honest I’ve
just been too busy to
book it but I desperately
need to have it done.”
The entrepreneur,
who launched her own
cupcake business, says
she can’t help but feel let
down by the care she
received when she had
her babies. “No one
mentioned my bladder
at any appointments at
the hospital. I was told
to do pelvic floor exercises but no
one said, ‘You are going to pee
yourself after you have kids’. I haven’t
got any friends who didn’t suffer
from this once they’d given birth.
“It’s normal – we need to be less
British about things. We focus so
much on what we look like, but we
need to sort our insides out.”
■ For information about the
Magnolia Cup Charity Race on
August 1, go to goodwood.com/
horseracing/qatar-goodwood-
festival/magnolia-cup. Wellbeing of
Women is a health charity investing
in pioneering medical research to
keep women well at each stage of
life (wellbeingofwomen.org.uk).TEAMWORK On The Apprentice, rightI wet myself,
to the point
you could see
it, in front of
20 people
including a
TV film crew
with cameras
rolling...HEALTH
‘We need
to be less
British
about
bladder
weakness’
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