Platinum

Platinum is the magazine for women in the prime of their lives - and having the time of their lives, too. Platinum is for those women who are up-to-date in both style and attitude and interested in exploring the world around them. In the pages of Platinum, readers will find everything from in-depth reads to the latest from the world of well-being. Platinum magazine inspires you to live your best possible life with fun-loving, informative, uplifting, and motivational articles and features inside every issue. Rekindle your confidence with expert beauty, skincare, and fashion advice, learn how to curb your financial worries, maintain your fitness goals and so much more with Platinum as your ultimate lifestyle guide. Platinum magazine encourages you to try new styles, recipes, exercises plus much more and pushes you outside of your comfort so that you can make the most of your life and celebrate the incredible woman that you are every day. Discover the lifestyle magazine that is redefining the lives of women aged 55 and over and start living your best and most fabulous life every day.

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Inspiration from our contributors • Meet the brilliant experts bringing you energy, creativity and love in this month’s edition.

Life Almanac • June has a way of making ordinary life feel a little more vivid. The longest days of the year are here - light that lingers until 10 o’clock, the scent of cut grass drifting through open windows, gardens at their most extravagant. There’s a particular pleasure in June: everything feels possible, unhurried and full. It’s the ideal month to step outside yourself - into a gallery, a festival, a story, a new idea - and come back feeling rather more alive than before.

‘I learned to hide my lack of self-esteem but every now and then it comes out’ • Bestselling author Jane Corry on a life shaped by self-doubt, resilience and quiet triumph – and the confidence she wishes she’d found sooner.

BOOKS WE LOVE • This month, our wonderful book editor Adele Parks brings six brilliant reads to lose yourself in - from betrayal and survival in 18th-century Scotland to a gripping countdown on a train platform. Expect secrets, sisterhood, satire and sweeping emotion, with stories to make you think, feel and stay up far too late.

The Aniston Effect Why the world loves Jen • She’s been analysed, heartbroken and misrepresented, but Jennifer Aniston has kept her grace and dignity. And at 57, she’s proving the richest chapter of her life is still being written.

Choose to thrive! • Feel good, stay strong – health, happiness, wellbeing and ageing brilliantly with Health Editor Rachel Dobson.

Strong, not skinny • As weight-loss drugs surge and the ultra-thin look returns, Rachel Dobson makes the case for muscle, strength and staying upright over chasing a smaller number on the scales.

Anti-inflammatory eating The midlife secret weapon • Aching joints, low energy, that faint sense your body isn’t quite playing ball. Don’t panic, a few smart food shifts can change more than you think.

‘I’m scared to make a change’ • Therapist Eve Menezes Cunningham helps a reader with one big midlife challenge.

Sex, lies and libido • Ramune Luminaire, author of Coming of Age… Again, on the honest conversation we all need to have about sex in midlife.

DR DAWN HARPER’S HEALTH SECRETS • This month, Dr Harper takes a look at sleep issues and what might be disturbing your slumber – plus how to tackle this common midlife problem.

Blooming marvellous!

The dress that gets you through summer • Easy, elegant and endlessly adaptable, the shirt dress is the one piece that makes everything feel simpler, and a little more stylish, writes Nicky...