Imelda May posted a video on her Instagram revealing she was told that, as a woman in her 40s, she was ‘wasting her time’ releasing an album.

We spoke to Samantha Kelly, the Tweeting Goddess and Nicola Wolfe, founder of Menopause Maze, about being women in their forties and whether society looks down on them once they reach a certain age.

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