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Sign-up to the latest news from Who. Disclaimer: By joining, you agree to our Privacy Policy & Terms of Use. A few years back, Michelle Bridges was feeling like a “hot mess” – but not in a good way.
 
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Experiencing a common symptom of perimenopause, she was having night sweats, which were disrupting her sleep and leaving her tired the next day. Her joints ached, her mood was off, anxiety was creeping in and she just didn’t feel herself. “I’ve always been a positive person and I was flat,” she tells WHO of her experience during our exclusive shoot and chat. “I was waking up drenched. There was definitely a rearrangement of body weight, I could feel myself getting thicker around the waistline – which sucked. So I had to level up. I had to rearrange my eating habits a little, rearrange my training and get myself a good doctor.” Watch Below: No excuses! Michelle Bridges shows off her at-home ab workout. Her own personal experience sent Bridges, 53, on a path to learning as much as she could about menopause and understanding its affects, not just on the body, but on the mind. “I thought I had a fairly good handle on what menopause was but I had no idea,” she explains. “I was clueless – and I work in the health industry.” It opened her eyes to why so many women struggle during this change. If someone such as herself, with access to experts and information who has worked in the health and fitness world all her life, was finding it a difficult period to navigate, she thought, no wonder so many of the members in her 12 Week Body Transformation program had cried out for a program that specifically catered to the perimenopausal, menopausal and post-menopausal woman. The idea of creating a new program had been knocking around in her head for years, but now she knew it was time to dive in. Enlisting the help of doctors and experts on nutrition, sexual and interpersonal relationships and hormone therapy, she created a new program: The Menopause Method. As well as offering an exercise and nutrition plan, it also covers topics including hot flushes, night sweats, joint pain, mood changes, osteoporosis, heart disease, libido, Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT) and Non-Hormonal Treatment. “Menopause is not the time to wave the white flag,” she says. Michelle Bridges (Credit: Alana Landsberry/WHO) While using this program may help individuals deal with these changes, Bridges hopes she can be part of a broader movement to, in effect, ‘rebrand’ menopause. She praises the likes of Naomi Watts, who began experiencing menopausal symptoms at the early age of 36, Michelle Obama, Gwyneth Paltrow and many other celebrities for speaking openly about their experiences and reaching millions of women. Acknowledging that every woman’s experience is different, and some women suffer extreme symptoms, Bridges would like menopause to be seen as a “gift, a time to take charge”. She says the most important thing is to get a good GP and to take a holistic approach to navigating the change. “We’ve been trained to think it’s terrible, it’s a jail sentence, my life is over and the worst thing in the world that can happen to you, because we hear that a lot,” she says. “But it’s an opportunity, you’re at a crossroads. You’re at an age where you’ve earned your stripes, you’ve earned your scars and you’re at an age where you don’t give a s–t what other people think any more. This is a great time for you. It’s time to take stock of your lifestyle. You can either wave the white flag or you can level up and move into the next chapter of life and give it everything you’ve got,” she says. “What a great place to be.” Bridges has transformed her life (Credit: Alana Landsberry/WHO) Bridges’ apparent apathy about what others may or may not think of her is a common refrain that peppers her thoughts and views about her outlook. She’s had her ups and downs, all played out in the public eye thanks to her high profile that followed her stint on ratings juggernaut The Biggest Loser, which pitted overweight contestants against each other to see who could lose the highest percentage of body weight. In 2020, she said she felt “deep remorse, shame and humiliation” when she was arrested for drink driving, which came in the midst of a devastating split from her partner Steve “Commando” Willis that year. They share a son Axel, now 8, and he is clearly Bridges’ focus. She is driven to be the best possible mother to him, grateful that her success later in life has allowed her to do things her own mum, a single mother who had to work to provide for her family, wasn’t able to do. Bridges is consciously single (Credit: Alana Landsberry) “I love being a mum, I really, really love it,” she gushes. “I wish I’d started sooner and had a few more. I know he would have loved to have a younger sibling, but anyway, we got a dog. We are very close. He’s been with me from day one. I was doing a photo shoot when he was six weeks old and he was right there with me. I take him with me everywhere, he’s been on so many photo shoots, on planes, trains and automobiles. Fortunately with my job, I could. I pick him up from school, I drop him to school, I go to all the sports carnivals, everything. I’m so blessed that I could do that, so grateful, because my mum couldn’t.” It’s no wonder that Bridges is protective of her happiness and her independence. And having it for herself inspires her to help others achieve that too, although she knows it will look different for every woman. “For me, part of what I love to do is have ladies feel like they’ve got control in their lives, that they’ve got a little bit of power back. I’m very excited about helping some ladies who have maybe put everybody else first – except themselves.” Bridges loves being a mum to son Axel (Credit: Instagram/Michelle Bridges) Bridges reveals that she is consciously single and it’s the longest she’s ever been on her own, without being in a relationship. And while she may not be looking for love, that doesn’t mean she’s closed herself off to the prospect of being with someone again. But, she laughs, she’s set the bar pretty high. “I just feel very independent and I really like it,” she explained. “And no, I’m not looking for love. At all. I haven’t been on a date for four and a half years. I’m good with that. I’m in a time right now where it’s all about my son and about me, too.

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