"Do you think you'll have children soon?" is a question I became all too familiar with as I prepare for my wedding and simultaneously turn 30. As I get older, the narrative that women are fed from a young age about ageing suggests our lives, and bodies, follow a swift downward arc has only got louder. That there is a peak, and that everything after it is a gentle decline into limitation.
For Poorna Bell, that narrative has never quite held. Now 45, the author and journalist is stronger, more mobile and more physically capable than she has ever been - a reality that directly contradicts everything she once believed about getting older.
