While others might reminisce, you couldn’t pay Ateh Jewel enough money in the world to go back to being in her twenties. At 47, she’s more than happy to have the messy business of youth in the rearview. There was the pressure of trying to prove herself; the health issues that hit her like a truck as a consequence; and the really big, really hard battle of trying desperately to make her marriage work.
Now, over two years after calling it quits with her husband of 26 years, she beams with confidence and self-assurance while speaking to Emilie Lavinia on The Independent’s Well Enough podcast. “The lies we were fed about ageing, oh my god…” She rolls her eyes. “Honestly, the way the patriarchy makes it out, it’s as if you turn 40 and just float away to an island, never to be heard of or seen ever again.
