Lisa Curry says perimenopause played role in ending marriage to Grant Kenny

Former Aussie swimmer Lisa Kerry has revealed the medical condition that played a major role in her shock divorce from husband Grant Kenny 17 years ago.

He former golden couple – she was one of Australia’s best-known swimmers and he was an Ironman and Olympic medalist turned businessman – separated in 2009 after three children and 23 years of marriage.

Now, Curry has revealed that perimenopause played a role in the demise of their union.

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Curry, now 64, appeared on the Healthy hair podcast when she made the revelation.

“There were days when I was exhausted and there were days when I knew my ex-husband would say, ‘My God, you were a grumpy, irritable, irrational, moody, sweaty, tearful b—h,'” she said.

‘That’s when things start to irritate you terribly.

“There were days when you thought, ‘I don’t even know why I got married.’ I don’t even know why you exist. I don’t know why I exist?’

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“That’s what perimenopause and menopause do to your brain cells.

“You lose yourself, you lose your self-confidence, you lose your relationship, you lose the love for the person you know… who you wanted to be in love with for the rest of your life. And it’s kind of unfair.

“And I remember one day my husband looked at me and thought, ‘Oh my God, I can tell he thinks I’m the devil. And I really thought he could see that in me.

“I saw it and he saw it because it wasn’t me.

“And now I know it was my hormones. But at the time I had no idea.”

Curry said she went to her doctor and told him all her symptoms and he wrote a script for a “maid and a massage.”

“I think he thought he was pretty funny,” she said.

‘Because they didn’t know either. I mean, we weren’t even talking about perimenopause at that time.

“But I didn’t know what it was and I didn’t have a name for it. The doctor didn’t have a name for it.

“I heard the word ‘perimenopause’ six or seven years ago and you think of the vast generations of women who came before us who not only didn’t have a name for it, but they were silent about it, and it wasn’t allowed to be talked about.”

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She also praised Nine journalist Shelly Horton for bringing attention to the condition.

Curry and Kenny married in 1986 and share three children. Jaimi Lee, died in 2020, Morgan and Jett, an Ironman model and TV star.

Curry subsequently founded the wellness company Happy Healthy You and co-wrote a book of the same name.

She is also a mental health advocate and has spoken about her experiences with grief since Jaimi Lee’s death, and is an advocate for better treatment for eating disorders.

Curry married his second husband, Elvis impersonator and entertainer Mark Tabone, in 2018. In 2025, they celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary by renewing their wedding vows in Fiji.

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