We need to talk about perimenopause

It’s a milestone health experience that may come for us all… so why are we so clueless?

WORDS: HANNAH CHUBB

As a former marketing executive, Kerri Devine spent her entire career responding to crises. So it was a shock to everyone – herself included – when one day, in her mid-40s, she had a complete meltdown in the middle of a craft shop. It was so bad that she left with a mild concussion (don’t ask). ‘But I never even thought about going to a doctor about it,’ she says. She just chalked it up to stress and the insomnia and anxiety she’d been dealing with for years. Until a friend suggested that it could be something else entirely. Most of us are familiar with the idea of menopause, thanks in no small part to the way pop culture has embraced the previously hushed-up ‘life change’. (See: an entire plotline in…

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Cosmopolitan UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024/January 2025

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