142 Ending the battle with aging with Mia Maugé
Meet Mia Maugé, a 57 year old model championing broader representation in the modelling industry. She burst onto the scene in 2020 in the midst of the global pandemic when she was picked up by a modelling agency, allowing her to leave her career in digital marketing and PR . She’s passionate about occupying spaces previously reserved for those who look nothing like her, be that her hair texture and colour, age, skin tone or body type.
We talk about:
- Mia’s experiences of Black Power as a mixed race child of the Windrush Generation growing up in the 70s
- How she discovered her passion for writing
- Working at Notting Hill carnival
- How Mia became a model
- Going public with her Instagram page in 2020
- Facing the fear of aging
- Dyeing her hair and finally stopping
- How Mia connected with the community of silver sisters
- The low point in Mia’s life
- Elderhood as the youth of old age
- Practicing gratitude and being grateful
- How the language around aging has got to change
- Aging and how society views older women
- Being comfortable in one’s skin and knowing one’s worth
- The importance of supporting women at any age
And more!
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