Em Rusciano

Yeah, it's been... And the last thing you want to do is I'd put on about 18 kilos as well, which happens when you start going through perimenopause.

Nothing about your life has changed.

All of a sudden, you're just getting this weight gain, which is so distressing.

There's so many...

It is unfortunately a problem and... But then you're made to feel vain.

Yes.

When you focus on it.

We want to empower people, right?

100%.

But we also live in the real world.

We have to be.

And unfortunately, the internet doesn't allow for such nuanced conversations, right?

It's such a wild little prickly hard subject.

But if you're a woman, also at my age, you know, gravity's starting to take hold.

Your face is changing.

And then all of a sudden you're putting on weight and you're feeling terrible about yourself.

And then to say to that woman, oh, but you just want to be strong and fit.

And I'm like, yes, but I also want to like what I see in the mirror because I have been conditioned from birth to care about that.

We have been programmed to not age and see ageing as some kind of personal failure.

So, I mean, all of that.