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How a sleep divorce helped save my marriage
There have been moments when journalist and recovering alcoholic Bryony Gordon thought her husband Harry Wilson would divorce her. “Some people sober up and they realise they're married to an a***hole. I sobered up and realised I was the a***hole,” Bryony told Ateh Jewel on this week’s Second Act podcast.
Bryony Gordon: I'm scared of getting addicted to Botox
As a poster woman for body positivity, Bryony Gordon is happy to embrace everything that the ageing process throws at her. She is a dedicated champion for natural bodies, showing the unfiltered truth by running London Marathon in her underwear with Adele Roberts. So it may come as a surprise to hear her honest confession about Botox.
Bryony Gordon: How hitting rock bottom at 10am changed everything
On the surface Bryony Gordon had it all; a husband who loved her, a gorgeous daughter, dream career and a friendship with Prince Harry. But behind the scenes the author of new book People Pleaser confesses she was a ‘mess’, navigating her longstanding issues with OCD and depression by drinking herself into oblivion. While she had always enjoyed drinking, she was surprised how the urge didn’t leave her after she had her child 13 years ago.
książka, zapowiedź, recenzja, streszczenie
Poruszająca, bezkompromisowo szczera i zaskakująco zabawna opowieść autorstwa Bryony Gordon to intymna podróż przez życie naznaczone zaburzeniami obsesyjno-kompulsywnymi, bulimią, depresją i uzależnieniami. Autorka od pierwszych stron zaprasza nas do swojego świata – bez filtrów, bez upiększeń, za to z ogromnym humorem i czułością wobec samej siebie i innych.
James Corden's sister shares 'grief' after losing 9 stone on weight loss drug
James Corden's sister Ruth has revealed that shedding nine stone using a weight loss drug had "revolutionised" her in many ways. However, the comedian's younger sibling revealed that she is grappling with the "grief" of still being unable to conceive a baby. Speaking on the latest episode of podcast The Life Of Bryony with journalist Bryony Gordon, the civil servant, 44, said: "I went on semaglutide, it will be two years this year, and in all honesty it has revolutionised my life.
Beauty influencer Caroline Hirons reveals shock split from 'wonderful' husband after 32 years
Caroline Hirons has revealed that she has parted ways with her husband Jim after 32 years. The beauty influencer shared that she had separated with the musician, with whom she shares four children. In a post to Instagram with her 784,000 followers, Caroline, 55, gave an update on their relationship, which she frequently gave fans insights to over the years. Captioning the video, she wrote: "Yes we are separated. "No we are not getting divorced in the foreseeable.
Harry and Zoe are the new Moss and Depp
I HAVE only one question about the relationship between Zoe Kravitz and Harry Styles: How come they didn't get together sooner? Looking at the pictures of them in New York meeting Zoe's rockgod father, Lenny, you realise the actress and the pop star are made for each other - a oncein-a-generation cool couple to rival Johnny Depp and Kate Moss or Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull. I can't wait to see more of them.
This is why Gregg Wallace is using autism as his pathetic new PR excuse after being caught behaving badly... it's a disgrace: BRYONY GORDON
This is why Gregg Wallace is using autism as his pathetic new PR excuse after being caught behaving badly... it's a disgrace: BRYONY GORDON Published: 12:31 EDT, 10 July 2025 | Updated: 12:33 EDT, 10 July 2025 It’s becoming a familiar PR tactic for anyone powerful who’s been caught behaving badly. Instead of apologising, and working out how to change for the better, why not deny all wrongdoing and paint yourself as the victim of a ‘system’ that’s out to get you (and anyone like you)?
BRYONY GORDON: How Ozempic has given people permission to comment on women’s bodies again
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. Just ask Selena Gomez. The actress and businesswoman, responsible for a $2 billion beauty empire, turned up at the weekend to the Screen Actors Guild awards, where she went on to receive an ensemble gong for her part in Only Murders In The Building. Not that you would have known any of this, so dominated was social media and the internet by commentary about her body, which has changed since she last went to the SAG awards a year ago.
BRYONY GORDON: Nothing sorts the men from the boys like a power cleavage
All hail Lauren Sanchez, the high priestess of the power cleavage. There she was, centre stage at Donald Trump’s inauguration, when some of the world’s most influential men turned to dribbling wrecks at the sight of an inch of bosom peeking out from her Alexander McQueen suit. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, ogled Jeff Bezos’s fiancée like a boozed-up freshman on spring break.
11 Best Sobriety Books To Help You Ditch Drinking For Good
From memoirs and self-help, to science-based discussion around addiction, these sobriety books take an eye-opening look at the psychology of drinking and mental health, and share practical ways to help you kick the booze for good. All the best bars are serving up a huge range of delicious mocktail options these days, and staying sober socially is now more accessible than ever – but that doesn’t mean it’s easy.
Bryony Gordon: Why don’t MEN condemn those who sleep with OnlyFans stars like Bonnie Blue, Lily Phillips?
I woke up the other morning thinking about Bonnie Blue. This might surprise you, given that I’m a peri-menopausal 44-year-old with a husband. Not exactly the target audience of the OnlyFans star, who hit the headlines earlier this year by trying to have sex with as many 18-year-old boys as possible. The so-called ‘adult content creator’ slept with hundreds of teens at Nottingham Trent University Freshers’ Week.
Mental Health: OCD isn’t just being ‘too tidy’. It made me think I was a killer and a pedophile Original
If I had a pound for every time someone told me they were ‘a little bit OCD’, I’d be a very rich woman indeed. Elon Musk rich. Lord Alli rich. Taylor Swift rich. I’d be writing this from the Bahamas, refusing to return to Britain unless the Prime Minister could guarantee me a police escort from my private jet to one of my many mansions.
Bryony Gordon: I fancy my husband. But we haven’t slept together in years
My husband and I have a secret that we like to keep hidden from public view. It’s not that we’re swingers or Morris dancers, though goodness knows we nurse this information with the same levels of furtive shame as a husband and wife whose hobby involves jigging energetically with strangers when nobody is looking. It’s more that we like to maintain the illusion that we’re a nice, normal couple, the kind you might want to invite round for dinner, or a cup of tea.
Bryony Gordon: Constant pursuit of ‘wellbeing’ is leaving us all exhausted
Sitting at my kitchen table this morning, counting out all the supplements I like to take daily, I was overcome with a wave of exhaustion. It’s not that I’m sick. (I should hope not, the number of vitamins and minerals I take). It’s more that there are just so many things I need to take to stay well. There’s vitamin D, because obviously I am not risking the sun – I slather myself from head to toe in factor 50, even in darkest winter. Iron, because I don’t want to eat too much red meat.
What my friends Prince Harry and Meghan are REALLY like, reveals BRYONY GORDON - who has been to their house and was given a pot of homemade jam
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Bryony Gordon: How taking testosterone actually brought me back to life
Monday, 8.15am. I am crammed on the Overground train, making my way to a boring work meeting when I am suddenly overcome by the desire to rip my husband’s clothes off. This is unfortunate because he is on the other side of London in his own boring work meeting, and I won’t be able to see him for at least another 12 hours.
Bryony Gordon: I learned the hard way why women like Zara put up with toxic men
I once had a boyfriend who I am going to call Paul, not because that’s his name, but because, almost 25 years after we went out, I am still too scared to call him by his real name. Paul was exceptionally handsome, funny, and charming, but he was also pretty abusive in a way I couldn’t quite bring myself to accept at the time. He’d turn without warning.
The hotly anticipated follow-up to lifechanging bestseller, MAD GIRL: Amazon.co.uk: Gordon, Bryony: 9781035408702: Books
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My OCD means I’ve been plagued with dark thoughts since I had my first child
Bryony Gordon is a bestselling author, columnist, podcast host, mental health campaigner and now the Telegraph’s Anxiety Aunt. Bryony is also the founder of peer support group Mental Health Mates. Submit your questions and dilemmas using the form below, or email howareyoureally@telegraph.co.uk Dear Bryony, I had my first child 10 months ago and what should be the happiest time of my life has become a nightmare.
They’ve tackled racism and homophobia - it’s time football took on misogyny
How wonderful it would be if there were more Wags out there who didn’t feel the need to blow up their lips and their boobs to fit in. There is no prouder moment in a parent’s life than when your first born announces that they support your football team (it’s always yours, even if it happens to be owned by a conglomerate of foreign billionaires).
You don’t have to live in a chocolate-box cottage in the Cotswolds to be happy
A decade ago, when my baby was an actual baby and not a tweenager on the verge of secondary school, I spent my maternity leave engaging in a fantasy that involved shipping out of London and to the countryside. Life would be better, I thought, if I could just trade in this poky two bed flat in south London for a wisteria-covered cottage in, say, Oxfordshire. Or Anywhere-But-The-City-Shire.
Will we ever stop judging women on their weight?
Here are a few fascinating things about Oprah Winfrey that you might be interested in her hosting a one hour TV special about: how she went from a childhood of poverty to becoming one of the richest women in the world; how she found the strength to survive years of sexual abuse as a child, not to mention the death in infancy of her son, whom she gave birth to when she was only 14; how she manages to get some of the most famous people in the world – from presidents to royalty to pop stars – to...
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Perfect Days is a World of Small Beauties
In the fast-paced life of the social media age, it can be easy to forget the small joys in life, but Perfect Days is a heartwarming reminder. Perfect Days follows Hirayama (Koji Yakusho), a public toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose life is built around his structured routine. He starts every morning by watering his plants and listening to music on his way to work. Despite the repetition of his life, he never seems unfilled and manages to find genuine joy in the world around him.
My OCD means I’ve been plagued with dark thoughts since I had my first child
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My OCD means I’ve been plagued with dark thoughts since I had my first child
Gordon: 'You need to know that we all have intrusive thoughts such as the ones you describe in your letter' - Clara Molden Bryony Gordon is a bestselling author, columnist, podcast host, mental health campaigner and now the Telegraph’s Anxiety Aunt. Bryony is also the founder of peer support group Mental Health Mates.
Bryony Gordon, Author of ‘Mad Woman'
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SHOPS Gordon began her journalistic career as an intern for the Daily Express and went on to write for the Daily Mirror and the Daily Telegraph, where she has published a weekly column since 2006. She also writes the ‘How the Other Half Lives’ column for the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine. Gordon published her first book, a memoir titled The Wrong Knickers, in 2014.
Esther Ghey is right: we must regulate hateful abuse online
The other day I received an email which had an opening line that went like this: “God Almighty, Gordon, you are one f—ing, ugly, fat b—-.” It continued in this vein for some time, with the sender informing me that he would never have sex with me (I’m heartbroken, as you can imagine), not even in a month of Sundays (I’m weeping, believe me), because I was an “ugly, fat —---- cow”.
I’m running for the people who can’t – they have made every step a little more bearable
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I’m running for the people who can’t - they have made every step a little more bearable
I’m up to 18-mile long runs, and I put as much energy into working out how not to get bored on them as I do actually running the damn things. Audiobooks, podcasts and company from friends help, but the best solution I have found is running each kilometre for someone who can’t. It reminds me of what a privilege it is to run, and thinking about the person keeps me going. Last weekend, I asked my followers on Instagram if they would like me to run for them.
Mad Woman by Bryony Gordon
What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effect it has on people. Now perimenopausal and well into the next stage of her life, parenting an almost-adolescent, just what has that help - and that connection with other unwell people - taught Bryony about herself, and the society we live in?
Can we blame kids for wanting a phone when we’re so attached to ours?
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Can we blame kids for wanting a phone when we’re so attached to ours?
Bryony Gordon is a bestselling author, columnist, podcast host, mental health campaigner and now the Telegraph’s Anxiety Aunt, Bryony is also the founder of peer support group Mental Health Mates. A movement is mounting. Last week, a mother from Suffolk posted on Instagram about a WhatsApp group she had set up with a friend. Parents United for a Smartphone Free Adolescence had only three members when Daisy Greenwell announced it on social media.
I checked into a £40,000-a-week rehab in the Swiss Alps
Arriving at the Clinic Les Alpes is like arriving at any high-end Swiss chalet, give or take a few details. Perched above Lake Geneva in the mountains, the fairy-tale castle can be seen long before you actually arrive – dusted with snow, it would not look out of place on a picture postcard, or an influencer’s Instagram grid.
When I want to give up I turn to plus-size influencers, who remind me that exercise is for everyone
iamlshauntay Ever signed up for a race, thought you were showing up early and the race had already started? Yeah, that's me. Thankfully, I'm just on time. Race is starting in 5,4, 3, 2,1. Love y'all. Wish me well on today's @themiamimarathon half marathon distance.
When I want to give up I turn to plus-size influencers, who remind me that exercise is for everyone
'I’ve just started to realise that the obstacles I encounter are more mental than they are physical': Bryony Gordon - Clara Molden Last Sunday, I did my longest distance yet as I train for this challenge: 14 miles. It was a beautiful, sunny, almost spring-like day, and I’m pretty sure that by the time I’d run from Hammersmith out to Twickenham, along the river, I had burnt cheeks. “Wind-burn,” suggested my husband, who I had decided to leave behind this time.
My dream casting of celebrity Traitors would reveal who we really can trust out there
The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman would be unlikely to take any prisoners in a celebrity version of the reality TV show - Mark Mainz/BBC The second series of The Traitors is over and, as will be the case for many viewers, there is now a sense of emptiness in my life, a huge gap shaped in roughly the same manner as Claudia Winkleman’s fringe.
My dream casting of celebrity Traitors would reveal who we really can trust out there
The second series of The Traitors is over and, as will be the case for many viewers, there is now a sense of emptiness in my life, a huge gap shaped in roughly the same manner as Claudia Winkleman’s fringe. It’s so rare for something to come along and unite three generations of a family in screaming at the television, instead of each other, but The Traitors has managed it, with its twists, turns and menacingly slowed-down versions of otherwise jaunty pop songs.
My dream casting of celebrity Traitors would reveal who we really can trust out there
The second series of The Traitors is over and, as will be the case for many viewers, there is now a sense of emptiness in my life, a huge gap shaped in roughly the same manner as Claudia Winkleman’s fringe. It’s so rare for something to come along and unite three generations of a family in screaming at the television, instead of each other, but The Traitors has managed it, with its twists, turns and menacingly slowed-down versions of otherwise jaunty pop songs.
My dream casting of celebrity Traitors would reveal who we really can trust out there
The Traitors host Claudia Winkleman would be unlikely to take any prisoners in a celebrity version of the reality TV show - Mark Mainz/BBC The second series of The Traitors is over and, as will be the case for many viewers, there is now a sense of emptiness in my life, a huge gap shaped in roughly the same manner as Claudia Winkleman’s fringe.
I’d rather be happy than fast - my husband can keep his ‘pacing’ tips to himself
When it comes to running, my motivation is not to be the fastest or the strongest, but the happiest,' says Bryony My husband announced that he was going to come on my long run at the weekend. To give me moral support, he said. “Twelve miles is a long way,” he added, mansplaining distance to me, “and I can hold your gels.” I stared at him, entirely unappreciatively.
I’d rather be happy than fast - my husband can keep his ‘pacing’ tips to himself
When it comes to running, my motivation is not to be the fastest or the strongest, but the happiest,' says Bryony My husband announced that he was going to come on my long run at the weekend. To give me moral support, he said. “Twelve miles is a long way,” he added, mansplaining distance to me, “and I can hold your gels.” I stared at him, entirely unappreciatively.
I’d rather be happy than fast - my husband can keep his ‘pacing’ tips to himself
My husband announced that he was going to come on my long run at the weekend. To give me moral support, he said. “Twelve miles is a long way,” he added, mansplaining distance to me, “and I can hold your gels.” I stared at him, entirely unappreciatively. My gels - tiny tubes of sickly-sweet liquid that basically fuel you when you are running for a long time - weigh virtually nothing, and I can fit them easily into the various pockets on my leggings and running jacket.
‘Sorry, chaps, but feminism hasn't gone nearly far enough’
President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales kissed Jennifer Hermoso - which she described as 'non-consensual' - Noemi Llamas/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Every couple of years since the dawn of time – or at the very least, feminism – a study will be released which shows that some people think the movement has gone too far.
‘Sorry, chaps, but feminism hasn't gone nearly far enough’
Every couple of years since the dawn of time – or at the very least, feminism – a study will be released which shows that some people think the movement has gone too far.
I’ve spent 45 years with a narcissist husband - will I ever get him to change?
Bryony Gordon is a bestselling author, columnist, podcast host, mental health campaigner and now the Telegraph’s Anxiety Aunt. Bryony is also the founder of peer support group Mental Health Mates. I have been married to a narcissist for 45 years. It was only about 12 years ago that I could put a name to his behaviour by doing research online: silent treatment, mind games, stonewalling, the works. It was shocking to read about this pattern and recognise it in my husband.
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