An influencer has created a club for women going through menopause and already has over 1 million followers.
It is estimated that currently, worldwide, over 1 billion women are going through menopause, a challenging period marked by a series of hormonal and physical changes that can affect physical and mental health.
There are dozens of symptoms ranging from the classic hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, fatigue, to emotional and cognitive changes such as memory lapses and difficulty concentrating.
For these women, who are going through the whirlwind of menopause, internet personality Melani Sanders created a club on Instagram, which already has over 1 million followers. On her page, she shares videos where she humorously discusses the effects of menopause in women’s daily lives.
“We’re about to open a perimenopause/menopause club, ok, and it will be called the ‘We Don’t Care’ club”; “That’s the name of our club. And we don’t care,” she says in one of the clips.
She explains: “Let me tell you what that means. It means, like, just now, I just got out of the supermarket. Honey, I wore a sports bra that was too small, ok, because I couldn’t find a bra. It’s all I have and guess what? I don’t care. I don’t care! Ok? And you know when a bra is too small, everything hangs to one side. That’s my situation, and I don’t care. I don’t care. It’s funny, but not funny because that’s actually what’s going on in my head.”
To make the concept even clearer, Sanders gives another example, showing her hair, and comments that she could have used a product to make her locks look neater, but why bother?
“Look. I could have put some gel. No, I didn’t. No, I’m not going to. I don’t need to put gel and I’m not going to.”
In her posts, Sanders encourages her followers to comment on how they are feeling, to share their frustrations and thoughts about this period which, for many women, is like an emotional rollercoaster with both good and bad sensations.
“Hot flashes, mood swings, thinning hair, heart palpitations, menopause belly, I’m tired of it all, I told my husband I’m going to cut all my hair,” confessed one.
“I don’t care that I used cornstarch this morning as dry shampoo and now the sweat running down my neck is white. I don’t care,” revealed another.
“I don’t want to know if I walked into a room and don’t remember why I walked in. I’ll remember in my own time,” wrote a third.
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