Life, Style & Starting Over: Kat Farmer on Fashion, Resilience and Reinvention

Yeah, and really fun to watch because I think you talk about the things that everyone really wants to talk about.

Well, I

mean, I think we did recently did actually a getaway.

I'm obviously 51 and I've got lots and lots of women and obviously the menopause, you know, I think we are... oh there's a real fear i think that our generation will be um badged as you know men are warriors we're so much more than that yeah and there are people who do that really brilliantly amazingly but i don't think everybody needs to do it but it seems that whenever you're asked you know as a 50 something woman it's and you're menopause okay fine that's done yes somebody else talks about that can we just talk about living our lives yeah And ironically, as lots of us have got our menopause sorted, and you can get it sorted, you think, right, okay, what's

next? And

you've actually got, I read a really great stat the other day, so for the first 30 years of your life, you are pre-menopausal.

You then spend 10 years being perimenopausal, and you then spend a day being menopausal.

A

day? Yeah.

One day.

One day? It's one day.

Oh, I didn't realize it was one day.

It's one day and then you're post-menopausal

for the next

30 years.

So when you think about the largest proportion of your life to go and do stuff is now.

And I just thought nobody, nobody is actually really talking about that, about the fact that women are really brilliant.

We are not.

We are a generation of women who've never existed before.

And I know that sounds really trite, but it's not.

You know, we've got more income.

We've got more autonomy.

We're more confident.

We've got our menopause sorted.

You know, we're