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“I really found myself adrift,” she says of her time after What Not To Wear. She launched a few more TV shows. She did a guest stint on The View. Nothing stuck. “I was bored by style. It got more and more frustrating that I couldn’t find a new platform. And I felt more and more depressed. My self-worth took such a tumble,” she adds. “Then I started to see changes physically. I was gaining weight. I started to look much older. And I was like, Oh my God, I don’t recognize myself. And I don’t know what to do. I had no agency. I just felt like I was drowning.”

In a way, her story is not unique: Studies have shown that 20% of women have left or are considering leaving a job due to menopause symptoms, and 18% have foregone pursuing promotions due to them. “Those are stats that can be used against us. ‘You’re going to leave [so why bother promoting you?]’ or ‘You’re acting crazy’ or ‘You’re an unstable boss.’ Bullsh*t, bullsh*t, bullsh*t,” she says. The reaction to London’s pro-menopause pivot has been mixed, even within her inner circle: When she told a close friend she planned to launch a menopause company, “He said to me, ‘You’re committing professional suicide.’ And I said to him, ‘You’re the problem.’”