Causes of early menopause as Coronation Street’s Faye is diagnosed at age 20
While the average age for a woman in the UK to reach the menopause - when oestrogen levels drop and a natural pregnancy is no longer possible - is 51, it isn’t only something that happens in middle age. As Coronation Street viewers have seen when 20 year old Faye Windass (played by Ellie Leach) was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure, or early menopause, earlier this week, menopause can affect younger women too. In fact, according to the Daisy Network, early menopause affects around one in 100 women under the age of 40 and one in 1,000 women under the age of 30.