Marie is a big knickers wearer, frantic chin plucker, gin lover and muffin-top fighter who worships at the alter of the incontinence liner. She draws her eyebrows in which are balding at an alarming rate, along with her nether regions. She doesn’t draw those in because that would be just plain weird. She writes the Facebook page Midlife Dramas in Pyjamas and has written articles for Good Housekeeping, Best, Good Housekeeping online and Menopause Life Magazine. She has been interviewed on BBC Radio Newcastle and appeared as a guest on the podcast Message in the Middle. She also regularly speaks to women’s groups.

Marie’s page exists to make her followers laugh, as well as realise that they’re not alone while travelling the menopause journey. Many people comment, “I thought it was just me those things happened to,” to which Marie always replies, “It’s never just you on my page.”

She loves to write funny poems and they’ve been used by other people to support events including incontinence clinics, menopause training sessions and a theatre performance for International Women’s Day.

Marie’s followers love her down-to-earth approach to life, along with her searing honesty about both the menopause and herself.

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