And now we have a new stereotype to make us Irish women of a certain age smart even more at our Gallic cousins: it’s been reported of late that French Women Don’t Do Menopause. Well, of course they do – they haven’t quite managed to change the actual laws of nature – but apparently they do it better, faster and with fewer symptoms than us. In fact, they make it look like a breeze, a slight inconvenience from which they emerge just as confident, slim and desirable as ever, perhaps even more so. Older French women are sexy and they know it. Think Juliette Binoche (54), star of 2017’s Let the Sunshine In, a romcom about an older woman looking for love; model/singer and former First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, (50); Catherine Deneuve, the face of Louis Vuitton (70); and First Lady Brigitte Macron (65), famously 24 years older than her husband and bringing her signature glamour to the world stage in short skirts and skinny jeans. How do these bombshells apparently ‘traverse’ La Ménopause like it’s a walk in the park, while we get mired in the horrors of hot flushes, night sweats and hair thinning – not forgetting mood… Read full this story
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