Interview: Aging, menopause, and rethinking fashion for comfort in midlife | Stacy London

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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“My lens around style doesn’t have anything to do with style anymore — it’s about physicality,” says stylist and fashion consultant Stacy London. “What do I want to be able to do? How do I keep myself strong?”

Stacy’s message has resonated for many women, and for this episode, she joins Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, host of TED Health, at TED2025 for a special live conversation about why women are so embarrassed to talk about aging. For Stacy, aging became a chance to reassess her relationship to her body, and her experience with menopause and spinal surgery shifted her focus to health and wellbeing. Her best advice on what you can do to feel good in your skin? Throw away the most painful pair of shoes you own.

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1:02.7	This is TED Health, a podcast from TED, and I'm your host, Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter.
1:13.6	Today, I'm excited to present a conversation with my friend, stylist, fashion consultant, author, and magazine editor, Stacey London, of TLC's What Not to Wear. In recent years, Stacey's become a powerful voice in a space that's long
1:19.7	been overlooked, midlife, and menopause. Through her writing, public speaking, and advocacy,
1:26.7	she's reframing this transition not as a decline,
1:30.6	but as a time of reinvention, of power, and deep self-knowing.
1:35.8	She's on a mission to bring honesty, humor, invisibility to a time of life that has historically been shrouded in silence.
1:43.4	It's a topic close to my heart too.
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