Women's Health (UK)
Welcome to Women’s Health
This month marks nine years since I was offered the role of editor of Women’s Health. I had a one-year-old and a three-year-old and had returned from maternity leave to my job on a national newspaper two weeks earlier. But if taking the helm of the...
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Welcome to Women’s Health
During my first year at the helm of Women’s Health, my team and I decided to theme the November edition – the one you’re reading now – the Mind Issue. It was 2017 – a year when Instagram grids were filtered sunsets and Tiktok had yet to make it to...
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Welcome to Women’s Health
During the almost nine years that I’ve been at the helm of this brand, we’ve brought you close to 100 covers – all of them women I’ve personally picked to inspire you. Sales figures deliver data on your favourites and I have my own, too; some former...
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Welcome to Women’s Health
I have a confession: I’ve never liked football. The inflated histrionics, the exorbitant salaries, the flagrant diving; my now-teenage son, Zak, went through a phase of flinging his body left, right and centre every time he took to the pitch because...
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Welcome to Women’s Health
In my role as editor-in-chief of Women’s Health, I encounter amazing women every day. Not only do I work with them in the office (my team are smarter and more able than I’ll ever be), but I’m also in the privileged position of getting to spend time...
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Welcome to Women’s Health
Heading up this brand is an honour I’ll never take for granted. I live and breathe its ethos of being the healthiest version of myself, and I like to think these last eight years have left me with a knowledge base that could even give some fitness and...
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Where were you, half a decade ago this spring, when then-prime Minister Boris Johnson asked you to stay home, protect the NHS and save lives? I was in a southeast London flat, living with the man I would marry and the friend who would be his best man;...
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Hands up whose motivation for just about anything is waning as we tiptoe towards the end of winter? The mornings are still dark, blunting any inclination to jump out of bed and grab the day by the horns. It’s cold, it’s miserable and we’ve still got a...
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How does January feel to you? Perhaps it’s the most miserable month of the year, when the short days have you googling the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder and you would hibernate until March if life would let you. Or maybe you’re someone for...
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Welcome to Women’s Health
One of the great privileges of producing this magazine is that my team and I get get to encounter some truly remarkable women. Women who inspire, challenge and surprise you; women who have so much charisma that you wish you could linger for longer in...
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Almost two decades ago, I experienced an episode of depression so severe, it left me in hospital. It came out of nowhere and, all these years later, I wouldn’t say it’s retreated completely. Low moods can loiter for weeks and, while I haven’t taken...
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Welcome to Women’s Health
The days of believing that being fit and healthy is the domain of the young are long gone. We all know feeling good in body and mind as we tick off the years is both an achievable reality and a necessity for a life free of pain and chronic disease. And...
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The first time Emma Willis appeared on the cover of Women’s Health, I feared we’d put her off for life. It was a freezing February morning in 2019 when we arrived at the (exposed, windy) Dungeness Beach in Kent. And while the team were bundled up in...
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Welcome to Women’s Health
I love watching sport. Regular readers of this letter will know that rugby is my favourite (being Welsh, it’s a religion). I prefer women’s football to men’s (which did little to inoculate me from Euros fever last month) and I invariably get hooked on...
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