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Is your 40’s the new 20’s?
This week I turn 43, I know, I know, I don’t look a day over 35, thank you..hahaha but all jokes aside, why do we cringe when another birthday comes around? Why shouldn’t a woman ever reveal her age? I recently received a phone call from my mother-in-law who had seen a picture of me in the newspaper’s social section where it had revealed my age and she was mortified and told me I shouldn’t let people know how old I am as she thought it would go against me. I just laughed it off, but I did start to wonder why people make age such an issue or a…
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THE SILENT REPRODUCTIVE KILLER
I’m a 42-year-old woman, who was told at 33 that I needed a hysterectomy, why? Well, let me tell you. Getting our period is a rite of passage into womanhood, it’s the next journey as we leave our childhood and step into becoming a woman and let’s face it, at 13 you aren’t thinking about becoming a woman, you are thinking about boys, boy bands, clothes and hanging out with your friends. The last thing we are thinking about is planning our lives, that’s for old people, right? I always wanted children at an early age. I have the best relationship with my mum, we are close, we talk about…
