Do you suspect that you may have aged 1000 years in the last six months? Well you probably have…. stress + environment + everything = skinpocalypse. So we talked to one of London’s leading cosmetic doctors Dr Suha Kersh about life, lines and how to get your face back on track. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's guest is the sensational Sophia Money-Coutts who is an actual person and a writer, not a made-up character. She is the author of best-selling, sexy novels; a journalist and now the host of a new podcast about freezing her eggs called Freezing Time. We probed her on every single detail - legs in stirrups please. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We’re back! Are we though? Oh God. Everything is so crazy. So... to counter the moaning, the madness, the uncertainty, the sheer precariousness of everything, Annabel takes us for a romp around her bathroom cupboard. This week we are all about September Beauty Heroes from a soothing cleanser to a sensational new mascara via the best bath oil and glowy skin stuff... @drunkelephant @oskiaskincare @katesomervilleskincare @afrohairandskinco @weledauk @skinceuticals_uki @malinandgoetz @suqqu_europe @...
Are you a bit miserable? Do you feel as though you’re failing? As though you’ve missed the life you could have had. Because most grown-up women are finding themselves living in a total shit show. But – as we always say – if we’re not in it together, we’re not in it at all. So, it’s very exciting that just before we fully surrender to our nervous breakdowns, we have a real authority on the line. Ada Calhoun has written the definitive analysis about why Generation X women feel so close to the abys...
This week our guest is sunshine in man form. Jules Von Hep has worked in the tanning industry for over 10 years, bronzing up Hollywood’s finest, getting models golden backstage at fashion week, always on and off TV sets, including Strictly and The X Factor – you name it, he’s seen them naked and at their most vulnerable. So it’s no surprise that he is also obsessed with body positivity, inclusivity and making people feel really good about themselves… ENJOY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
We all have a super weird relationship with food, don’t we? Well, this week we’ve got a rosé-drinking, no-nonsense nutritional therapist, the wonderful Eve Kalinik on the line. With her realistic approach to gut health and food fads, she talks sugar, gluten, caffeine - all the big guns - and what the perfect poo should look like. It’s a gut ‘un… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we talk to the brilliant columnist, satirist and broadcaster Hugo Rifkind about the rubbish new normal - from the threat of 'space weather' to Donald Trump sex dreams, via our old friend Brexit (remember him?) and our even older friend impostor syndrome. P.S. This week’s episode is sponsored by the fun-fact-filled magazine, The Week Junior. You know how when you are a kid you think, 'I can’t wait to be an adult and then I will know everything'? Obviously, that didn’t pan out, but The W...
This week we have a real, live female film director here. The magnificent Coky Giedroyc is known as the queen of costume drama: she’s made Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, The Virgin Queen, all with Tom Hardy coughs. Also Harlots and The Hour to name but a few… Her latest film is How to Build A Girl, an adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s book, which lands on Amazon Prime on the 24th July. In lockdown she’s also been Zooming with Take That because she’s making Greatest Days, a film about their fans. W...
This week we talk to a proper beauty expert, the delightful Emma Guns, about everything from our terrible toes to our terrible hair, via stretch marks and beards. P.S. This was recorded remotely so please forgive us if it’s a bit rough and mad. Here are all her top tip products... Boots Foot File https://bit.ly/3euumWD Philips Lumea https://amzn.to/318ewgd Braun Silk-Epil https://amzn.to/2V80vva Body Brush https://bit.ly/383HyiD No7 Hydration Masks https://bit.ly/2B55wxW Kate Somerville ExfoliKa...
This week we talk about quicksand, office a***holes and daily malpractices - from Manifestering to adopting a Positively Mental Attitude... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From suspender belts to knee supports, this week’s episode of I’m Absolutely Fine! is all about the multiple personalities of our knicker drawers. Bravely sponsored by Stripe & Stare - who are offering all of you 20% off with the code FINE10 (until 31st July) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we discuss living in The Overwhelm, on The Brink, in Denial, deckchair panic and how we've forgotten how to be civilised members of society. P.S. All these episodes are recorded remotely so please forgive us if they are a bit rough and mad. Love A&E x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we talk about what would happen if Midults did Love Island, Locktail hour, and all the therapy we are going to need when this madness is over. P.S. All these episodes are recorded remotely so please forgive us if they are a bit rough and mad. Love, A&E x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we are deranged with joy to welcome our very dear friend Gavanndra Hodge to the podcast. Her new book, The Consequences of Love, is about love, addiction, trauma, parties, grief and the eventual understanding that, if we are brave enough to look at long ago loss, we can change our lives. Listen to her. Then read the book. Trust us x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week we’re back on the Corona-coaster talking about all the different flavours of panic, insomnia and some of the times we disgraced ourselves… P.S. All these episodes are recorded remotely so please forgive us if they are a bit rough and mad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Annabel and Emilie talk about The Tiredness, micro horror stories and games you can play to keep the madness at bay. Sort of… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Annabel and Emilie comb through the remnants of their former lives, from past-their-sell-by-date condoms to hair balls to secret copies of The Rules... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
It’s Episode 3 from reality 2020. This week we discuss the erosion of our sense of self and how our fantasy life is getting out of control - in all directions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We’re absolutely fine but… we’ve gone lockdown loco. It’s our second dispatch from the new normal. We talk about the magimix of feelings, the terrible sex dreams and how it’s possible to feel lonely and claustrophobic AT THE SAME TIME. Love A&E x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We’re absolutely fine but…. we’re in lockdown. This is our first episode from Reality 2.0. Join us as we share some of our wildest thoughts in these strange times… P.S. This was recorded remotely, on our phones - which are now actually fused to our hands - so forgive the glitches… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mandy Saligari is complete badass: an addictions therapist whose TedTalk is titled 'Handle feelings before they handle you'. She is a multi-hyphenate who has helped thousands untangle their demons in order to learn to live a fuller life. She looks at self-esteem, the frightening areas of vulnerability, fear and how we can meet the demands that life throws at us without constantly running on empty. Sound familiar? She is wisdom in motion… this is an important 40 minutes. P.S. This podcast was rec...
If you haven’t heard of @DoesMyBumLook40 then you’re about to. For years she’s been a badly-kept fashion secret: doling out tips and tricks on Instagram. She combs through the tat and shares the treasures. Now she is leaping from your iPhone screen to your TV screen in BBC1’s Prime Time show You Are What You Wear next Thursday. We are so grateful to you Kat Farmer, for helping us get dressed in the most human way. P.S. This episode was recorded two weeks ago when the world was a little different...
This week Annabel and Emilie are dazzled by Kate Silverton. One of our most popular and versatile journalists, this woman is BRAVE. So versatile that she has been a war reporter, competed in 2018’s Strictly Come Dancing and tackled some of the UK’s most perilous rivers by kayak. She’s clearly a maniac. But she also looks inwards and her Panorama about childhood trauma and toxic stress is out later this month. Warning: this podcast made us cry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm...
This week’s guest is Julia Samuel, one of Britain’s leading psychotherapists - she is also one those people who changes the temperature of the room, who makes it a kinder, safer space. Her speciality is grief - can you imagine the things she has seen and heard? The feelings she has witnessed? The pain that she has had to process? Known for her whole-heartedness, she helped to launch the remarkable charity, Child Bereavement UK and has worked both with the NHS and in private practice for over thi...
Hormones. Hormones. Hormones. The horror. The magic. The conspiracy of silence. The almost institutionalised ignorance. Lady chemicals. It’s time to take back some hormonal power. This week on I’m Absolutely Fine!, Annabel and Emilie chat to Doctor Martin Galy - the renowned hormones specialist. Women who have been treated by him call him The Magician. He has helped thousands of women to take back control of their bodies And if anyone can blow away some of the myth and mystery - and downright te...
This week Annabel and Emilie get naked with Grace Woodward. The former Britain’s Next Top Model judge and X-Factor stylist talks about the toxic fashion world and how it nearly broke her. But she staged a comeback to ask the question: why as women do we feel so terrible about ourselves? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan, authors of the best-selling book I’m Absolutely Fine!, are now here weekly. Happy Galentine’s Day - this week Annabel and Emilie get romantic about friendship, tears, identity and all the different kinds of Midult porn. From property porn to cancel porn: cancel me, cancel me, cancel me harder! Oh God, that’s good…. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan, authors of the best-selling book I’m Absolutely Fine!, are now here weekly. This week we hop into Josh Wood’s chair. We talk to the world’s most famous hair colourist about how women feel when they look in the mirror and cope with the ever-evolving creature that looks back at them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan, authors of the best-selling book I’m Absolutely Fine!, are now here weekly. This week we meet a bit of a super hero… Because not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they wear very short skirts. They get cancer and instead of hiding away they film and photograph themselves at all their lowest, most brutally intimate moments. They show the world how you can live, love, dance, cry, suffer and survive. Thank goodness for Deborah James… Learn more about your ad choice...
Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan, authors of the best-selling book I’m Absolutely Fine!, are now here weekly. This week we are on the frontline of solo parenting with writer Sophie Heawood. talking about what it feels like to exist outside the nuclear narrative… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
