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We Aren’t Leaving It Too Late To Have Children, We’re Being Screwed ...

Abortion Is More Under Threat In Britain Than You Think

The Zoe App Changed How I Think About Fats

I’m Surprised Offensive Behaviour To Women In Football Has ...

Back in the summer, when I saw the photos of then Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales planting an inappropriate kiss on World Cup winner Je

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Has Attachment Theory Gone Too Far?

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had. And add some extra, just for you.R

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I’ve Entered My Eat, Pray, Love Era & I’m Not The Only One

Are you in your “Eat Pray Love era”? As I enter what sociologists rather meanly call “early mid-life” at the age of 35, I am firmly in mine

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Alleged Rapist Russell Brand Was Hiding ‘In Plain Sight’, Abusers...

Warning: The following includes descriptions of rape, sexual assault and abuse that some readers may find distressing. In 2010, the comedian Russell Brand

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Parcopresis: Why Do So Many Women Suffer From Poo Anxiety?

During March, a young woman in her late 20s moved in with a man she had been dating on and off since December. They quickly went from meeting up at the blu

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I Got Rejected For Botox & It Was A Hard Pill To Swallow

“I wouldn’t inject you,” aesthetic doctor, Dr Harris, said matter of factly as he sat across from me in his North London consulting room.

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This £750 Facial Taught Me Some Hard Truths About Ageing

There are gravely serious things happening in the world: Donald Trump’s criminal trial, war in Ukraine, boats of people in the Channel desperately trying

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I Got My Chest Lasered To Improve My Skin & I Learned A Lot

Outdated phrases such as ‘anti-ageing’ and ‘anti-wrinkle’ are slowly but surely being replaced by healthier, more inclusive ideas.

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Gwyneth’s ‘I Wish You Well’ Was Immediate – But...

Once, on a cold January evening, I wrote in an iMessage the words: “I wish you well.” I was signing off a text to someone who had behaved less

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What You’re Getting Wrong About ‘Self Love’

“Thank yourself for showing up today and loving yourself,” said the yoga teacher in the dim, sweaty room where I do hot yoga and try to shut do

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Does Your Job Really Need To Spark Joy?

“I just don’t feel like I’m contributing anything,” a friend said to me recently in despair. “I want to do more. It’s not just abou

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Not Everything Is ‘Toxic’ Just Because You Don’...

If something is toxic, it is poisonous. If ingested or inhaled, its toxicity can make people sick; it can even be fatal. Toxic things are to be treated wit

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Nobody Is Talking About Male Infertility & It’s Bad For Us All

There’s a story we’ve been told about Britain’s falling birth rate. It goes something like this: women are too focused on their careers, having child

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Young Single Mums Are Really Struggling, So Why Is Nobody Helping?

“I’m doing everything I am supposed to be doing but there are all these knock-backs,” says 26-year-old mother of one Phillipa over the ph

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I Stopped Chasing Happiness & You Should, Too

I remember, with the sort of clarity reserved for those pivotal moments in life during which, you later realise, a huge change was underway, the card I was

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How We Talk About Abortion Needs To Change

I have a lot of déjà vu at the moment. This creeping feeling that I’ve had a conversation before. That I’m saying something I’ve already said. I wo

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All The Reasons Why Private Renting Right Now Really Is Chaos

The rental market in England is, to use a technical term, totally and utterly bonkers right now. “There were literally around 60 other people viewing

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Things Were Bad For Women – But Liz Truss Has Made Them Even Worse

Britain’s third woman prime minister, Liz Truss, delivered a budget which, in just the space of a few days, has made the lives of many women materially w

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Under Liz Truss, Things Could Be Harder For Women In Britain

Former foreign secretary Liz Truss has won the Conservative party’s leadership contest and beat former chancellor Rishi Sunak in the race for the top job

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Advice For Starting Again Financially After A Break Up

The first time I went through a proper break up I was at university. I still had a Nokia phone. It was neither ironic nor a burner; iPhones didn’t exist

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Should We Ever Block Lovers & Friends On Social Media?

“I was seeing someone and he ended it. Well, it was a classic fade out – it ended but it didn’t. My friends swooped in and told me to block him,?

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Sanna Marin Has Been Exposed As Human & It’s Good For Us All

What exactly constitutes a scandal in politics these days? Allegedly misleading parliament over what you were up to during the coronavirus lockdowns (Boris

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I Got My Face Lasered To Improve My Skin & Here’s What I Le...

In 2021, it’s safe to say we’re no longer so afraid of growing older. The beauty industry is slowly phasing out the term ‘anti-ageingR

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A Woman Prime Minister Won’t Necessarily Be Good For Women

It’s British Summer Time and due to climate change a record temperature of 40.2 degrees Celsius has just been recorded in the seventh circle of hell (sor

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Don’t Miss This Good News About The Gender Health Gap

Women and people with wombs don’t need studies to tell them there is a gender health gap. They know. They know because, as Refinery29 has reported in our

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A Skin Doctor Told Me This Is The Only Preventative Treatment Tha...

In 2022, growing older is no longer such a big deal. ‘Anti-ageing‘ is slowly but surely becoming a defunct phrase as beauty brands focus on enh

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“Buying A Flat Was The Biggest Mistake Of My Life”

In 2017, 29-year-old Sophie Bichener made what she describes today as “the biggest mistake” of her life. Did she break up with the love of her life? No

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