Female health
Empowering advice on hormones, fertility, sexual health, and menopause. Navigate your body’s changes with expert insights and supportive, tabboo-free guides.
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'Why is talking about the signs of menopause still TMI?'Beauty giant Avon is calling a time out on menopause
By Sarah Barnes
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'A masked stranger with good intentions': an NHS midwife on the frontlineOpinion Stephanie, a 25-year-old midwife based in a hospital in the Midlands, details her worries about how her vital role providing care for women and their babies being born during the Covid-19 pandemic has changed
By Olivia Adams
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Fertility benefits: 'I sold my house to pay for IVF, then my company helped me make a baby'Report Many employers are now attempting to level the gender playing field by paying for fertility services. Marisa Bates reports on what it's meant for two women when employee perks move into family planning
By Marie Claire
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#happyYOUyear: why The Happy Vagina podcast is your next must-listenGet ready to talk vaginas, bodies, periods, sex and getting tested with Mika Simmons
By Olivia Adams
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Here's why teenage mothers in Cambodia are in crisis and what you can do to helpReport As rates of teenage pregnancy escalate across Cambodia, so too are the numbers of young mothers going without food − with devastating consequences. Corinne Redfern reports
By Corinne Redfern
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Jameela Jamil just spoke candidly about having an abortionBy Jenny Proudfoot
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Chrissy Teigen has an important message for women about pregnancy weight gainAnd we love her even more for it.
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Emilia Clarke has broken her silence on the two brain aneurysms she almost lost her life to'In my worst moments, I wanted to pull the plug. I asked the medical staff to let me die.'
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Viva la vulva - respinning our most misunderstood body partReport It’s time to change the conversation around the vulva, says author Lynn Enright, whose book on female genitalia is part of a new wave of art and literature on the subject
By Marie Claire
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Gwyneth Paltrow is rebranding menopause with her new line 'Madame Ovary'And we're here for it.
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Nicole Kidman opens up about the 'massive grief' of suffering a miscarriageAnd it's very powerful.
By Jenny Proudfoot
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In defence of Brigitte Nielsen: why having a baby over 40 actually isn't that big a dealOpinion One older mum offers her advice to Janet Jackson who is having a baby aged 50.
By Miranda McMinn
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A new campaign for less guilt and more support in childbirth has launched and we're so on-boardOpinion Yes to this.
By Marie Claire
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Jessica Biel just opened up about her emergency caesarean‘We arrived home exhausted, disillusioned, and totally in shock’
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Serena Williams: 'I had to spend the first six weeks of motherhood in bed’The new mum is calling for change after almost dying giving birth to her daughter…
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Serena Williams just got very real about her traumatic birth experience'EVERY mother, regardless of race, or background deserves to have a healthy pregnancy and childbirth'
By Marie Claire
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This exhibition exposes the truth about Irish abortion lawsReport This weekend, the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign is bringing the award-winning NOT AT HOME exhibition to London
By Marie Claire
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The age of your mum could affect your fertility, according to a studyBy Anna Duff
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‘I don’t need mammograms anymore - I don’t have breasts'Christina Applegate reveals that she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed
By Marie Claire
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Sofia Vergara may have started a very important Instagram trendAnd it’s pretty empowering
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Gabrielle Union opens up about her heartbreaking struggle with infertility'I've had eight or nine miscarriages.'
By Marie Claire
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‘1 in 8 women get breast cancer – today I’m the one’Julia Louis-Dreyfus opens up about her breast cancer diagnosis
By Jenny Proudfoot
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Stella McCartney and Alicia Keys are teaming up to raise Breast Cancer awarenessAnd we’re here for it.
By Jenny Proudfoot
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How a young ovarian cancer survivor lives without fearOpinion Primary school teacher Laura Moss opens up to Marie Claire about her ovarian cancer experience
By Marie Claire
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Women over 40 now have a higher fertility rate than ever beforeMums are getting older as more women over 40 fall pregnant
By Marie Claire
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Does period-proof underwear actually work?Our digital features editor gives them a try (and answers all the questions you probably have)
By Delphine Chui
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How your phone radiation is affecting you (and how you can decrease it by 70%)Scary stuff...
By Delphine Chui


