No7 Celebrates World Menopause Day with ‘Sex and the City’ Creator Candace Bushnell and Hello! Magazine

Anti-aging skin care brand No7 teamed up with Hello! Magazine to honor World Menopause Day with “Sex and the City” creator Candace Bushnell. 
 
At the afternoon tea panel discussion on Wednesday, Oct. 18 she shared her experiences of menopause and helped break taboos around post-menopause sex. 
 
“The menopause affects a lot of things, it affects the way we feel about relationships, it affects the way we feel about ourselves,” Bushnell said. “It's really a reset and I think it's a positive. Women in general are valued for their ability to reproduce but the world is really changing, and menopause is really a vibrant time in one's life when you can be free of those things that were so constraining as a woman when you were younger.”
 
The panel discussion was held at The Whitby in New York City on World Menopause Day.
  
Mind coach Poppy Delbridge opened the afternoon with an invigorating rapid tapping session, before welcoming Hello!’s US Beauty and Wellness Editor Donna Francis to moderate a panel consisting of Bushnell, plus co-founder of national non-profit Let’s Talk Menopause Donna Klassen, certified psychiatrist and medical board member for Let’s Talk Menopause Dr. Judith Joseph, and board-certified dermatologist & TV medical expert Dr. Tess Mauricio, aka “America’s favorite dermatologist” who counts celebrities like Khloe Kardashian and singer Paula Abdul as clients. 
  
Building on the success of Hello!’s UK Menopause Workplace Pledge, the media brand collaborated with US non-profit campaign group, Let’s Talk Menopause to support its mission to spark a conversation around menopause, and to help give women information they need to demand the healthcare they deserve. 
 
In America right now, approximately 75 million women are in the midst of perimenopause, menopause, or post-menopause.  
 
Despite these stats and the ubiquity of this rite of passage, menopause remains a subject that comes with taboo, shame, confusion and misinformation. Menopause means so much more than hot flashes. It can affect sleep, libido, energy levels, and skin – the latter of which No7, the UK’s best kept beauty secret, is aiming to address with its Menopause Skincare collection expertly designed to target menopause skin changes resulting from reduced estrogen.   
 
“There’s still a lot of agism out there, but our population is getting older, in 25 years, 50% of the population will be 50. Someone said to me the other day that the Golden Girls were in their fifties which seems just extraordinary because no woman in their fifties is living their life like the golden girls now. Being in your 50s, 60s or 70s now – even 80s is very, very different than it was 25 years ago. Women have more opportunities now.”