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In this issue of Fairlady HOT!: Christy Turlington ‘my goal was not to have to answer to anybody’; The culling of old friendships was something I didnt see coming; The big secret about getting Magazine-Older; Moving on from a midlife breakup; Midlife check-ins with Vanessa Raphaely, Danielle Weakley, Hannah Betts
and many more funny, frank, fabulous women; Is menopause getting worse? Some scientists say it is; 6 Probing questions for sex therapist Nicki Brivik and Menopause brain is a thing
but its not what you think. – You know whats weird?
The way we women sometimes dont tell the truth about the important bits to each other.
About love (it takes work); weddings (the colour of the napkins doesnt matter at all its the marriage that counts); about kids (that breastfeeding is damn sore to start with, and that kids are monstrously selfish and you will long for the person you used to be until you love them more than you used to love you); about sex (I should probably have brought that up before kids, since it may not be relevant after them). You know what I mean
And now were hitting midlife. And if I have to see another picture of another bloody overblown rose with the petals falling off in my search for information, I may have to take a hostage. Im tired of asking women my age if theyre having botox or considering HRT or waking up at 3am every night and getting evasive answers. I know theyre personal questions, but if we cant get down and dirty and personal and honest with each other, whats it all about?
And thats why we made HOT! The Grown-ups Guide to Midlife. Its about becoming invisible, about hot flushes at totally inappropriate moments, about not sleeping, about inexplicable cake cravings, about drinking barrels of bubbly, about HRT or not, about friends and lovers and loss and time
all of it. Its honest, its funny, its full of good info: its basically the conversation that all of us need to have with each other. And Im afraid there is just the one pic of a drooping rose, but it was appropriate, youll see!
