Friday, I’m In Bed is a weekly podcast for midlife women living their best life, but in bed by 10.
Taking on the cultural moments everyone’s talking about — and the ones we probably should be. Hosted by Gemma Seager, a 40-something, childfree personal trainer and cocktail lover with two very spoiled pugs, and Kate Beavis, a 50-something menopause coach, anti-ageism campaigner and mum navigating grown-up family life.
Honest, warm, irreverent, and unfiltered, Friday, I’m In Bed feels like the chat you’d have with friends who get it.
New episodes every Friday.
Latest Epsisode
- It’s Friday I’m Invisible: Women Over 60 in Film & Cosmeticorexia in Tweenagers
New research says films are more likely to star a talking animal, or a leading man called Chris, than a woman over 60. This week we get into ageism in film and TV and the midlife women who vanish from our screens around 40, only to reappear as somebody’s grandmother or a witchy old hag. Why do older women keep disappearing? Do reboots like Practical Magic and And Just Like That count as progress, or just nostalgia? We talk about what The Substance and Pamela Anderson in The Last Showgirl get right, who’s missing from the writers’ room, and whether things are finally starting to shift.
Then: cosmeticorexia, the unhealthy skincare obsession gripping girls as young as eight. We unpack tween skincare routines, glass skin, retinol burn and anti-ageing products being marketed to children, the Sephora kids pipeline and the brands behind it, the parents footing the bill, and why a child influencer earning 50,000 a year should give everyone pause. Whose fault is it, the brands, TikTok, or us?
Topics covered: women over 60 in film, ageism in Hollywood, midlife women on screen, representation of older women, cosmeticorexia, tween and kids skincare, glass skin, anti-ageing, Sephora kids, social media and parenting.
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