Since 2018, Meg Mathews has been one of the UK’s foremost menopause campaigners, determined to use her profile to end the stigma surrounding it.
In a new fortnightly column for Stella magazine, she reveals what she’s learnt. This week: the crucial reason we need to end the menopause taboo.It took me a year to realise what was happening to my body because at the time nobody was talking about it.
There was no information readily available – you had to really look for it. I felt angry… why wasn’t I taught about menopause at school and why didn’t any of my female idols talk about menopause in their biographies?
It was like they had just left this huge section of their lives out of their story. Luckily now five years on, I feel things are.
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