💒👰♀️WHAT SHE DID NEXT cover reveal 💍🗑️
This is the real story of what happens when 'happily ever after' ends too soon.
@eviesimm thought she'd ticked every box: love, career, marriage. Then, six months in, her husband left—and she had no idea why.
In What She Did Next, the award-winning journalist blends personal memoir and investigative insight to uncover a quiet crisis affecting millennial women: the rise of the early, unexpected divorce.
With interviews, expert commentary and unforgettable storytelling, Simmons asks: why are so many young marriages ending so soon? What do we do after the life we built disappears overnight?
This is the heartbreak story for our generation. Honest, complicated and, ultimately, full of hope.
Cover design: @nico_taylor
Beyond honoured to share the stage with @therealnozi and @rachelkolisi at @franlitfest this weekend, talking about what to do when the worst happens, and how we’re all stronger than we think we are! Women especially.
Thank you to all the fabulous sisters who came up to chat, bought a book or humoured my inappropriate jokes about my ex husband 😈
Enzo was worryingly at home in the green room x 🇿🇦📚💕
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#books #franschhoek #booktok #divorce #recovery
Spent 48 hours scrolling though pubmed/cochrane library and here’s the fruits of my labour! TLDR: 85% of the stuff you see is a big fat con. And Botox works!
More on my substack! Link in bio x
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#skincare #antiageing #retinol #beauty
The homemade purée/healthy ‘natural’ snack brigade are setting already burnt-out mothers up to fail. Honestly where do they find the time? Are their babies blessed with magical powers that allow them to keep themselves occupied for longer than 10 minutes without breaking a bone?
Let us use our precious spare minutes for activities that protect our mental health (i.e not peeling potatoes)
Also: baby food isn’t bad!!! (According to my nine months of research). Pick up a pouch, drop the guilt x @ellaskitchenuk
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#motherhood #blw #blwrecipes #feminism #babyboy
If @olivia_attwood spoke publicly about the importance of protecting her cash maybe other brides-in-waiting wouldn’t make the same stupid mistakes I did!
Prenups are worth it but no one wants to get one coz it’s awkward. As one divorce lawyer said to me; ‘the only way to truly protect your money is to not get married.’
Women are earning more than ever before, but that means we have more to lose.
More in my @substack x
This is a gushy post to express my gratefulness that, after what felt like a trilogy of very very shit things happening in my life, I’ve landed at the place I’ve longed for. I used to think of my family as being blighted by an invisible curse that sent trauma packages every now and then, but now I see nothing but lucky lucky lucky.
Usually I’m too scared of jinxing it to write anything along these lines but sometimes it’s okay to acknowledge that you too deserve a happy ending (not like that you filthbags) ✨
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#divorce #breakup #edrecovery #eatingdisorderrecovery #edwarrior
Every single one of the women I spoke to do What She Did Next are better off post divorce. Whether they wanted the split or not.
Some met a new partner (despite believing it was impossible). Some found a new and unrelenting joy in singlehood. Some had babies. Some didn’t - and are grateful for it.
If you’re at the beginning of this wretched journey, I see you! It’s a pile of rotten, stinking 10 day old garbage at first, but trust me when I say it gets infinitely better.
Plenty more inspiration for the future can be found in What She Did Next, out now! 🧡
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#divorce #breakup #books #heartbreak #recovery
If anything will make you reflect on your recovery from an eating disorder, it’s the task of teaching a brand new human how to eat (and love) food.
The years have taught me that you can always be a little bit more recovered, not that you’d know it. But it’s not a bad thing. It’s the gift of unlocking an extra level of freedom and discovery that you never knew you needed.
Eating disorders are mad and complex and full recovery is a scaling a mountain with a hidden peak. But motivation is important. And if someone had told me that getting better would mean the exceptional joy of watching my baby boy shovel pancakes into his tiny, adorable mouth (while I did much the same but with a fork), maybe it would have been a push in the right direction.
I’m so grateful to be right here 💕
Full piece, along with some weaning science stuff, on my @substack x
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#eatingdisorderrecovery #anorexiarecovery #baby #weaning #blw
What’s behind this depressing rise in deadly bowel cancer?
It’s a question scientists are constantly asking; cases in 25-49 y/os are up 22% in three decades. As with all complex health stuff, the answer is likely to be a combination of factors and it’s not yet clear cut.
It’s quite possible that some people just have really, really shitty luck.
BUT you want to give yourself the best chance of preventing it, fibre, fibre, fibre!
#cancer #youngcancer #jamesvanderbeek #bowelcancer #health
Please learn from my mistakes and don’t get carried away with the pomp of a wedding day. Not only is it literally throwing cash down the loo, it might distract you from a crap relationship. Also, no one is looking at your stupid fairy lights when they’re smashed on Prosecco and doing the YMCA!!
More in today’s Mail!
#divorce #breakup #heartbreak #newbookstagram #books
There are moments when life doesn't gently redirect you.
It breaks open everything you thought you were building.
A marriage ending.
An identity unraveling.
A future that suddenly no longer exists.
What happens when the life you were "supposed" to live falls away...
and you're left asking who you are without it?
In this conversation, we explore what it's like to be highly capable on the outside while quietly lost on the inside.
There is grief here.
Overwhelm.
And also something unexpected...
freedom.
Not the kind you chase.
The kind that arrives when you choose to be your fullest self.
We talk about what it really means to exist versus truly live in relationship...
why the scariest endings often become our greatest liberations.
🎧 Episode 38 of Elevate Daily with @Eviesimm
Link in bio.
